3 papers
cs.SD2026
Imitation Learning for Elder-Facing Speech Synthesis
Dongrui Han, Weidong Chen, Jiawen Kang +3
Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have achieved highly natural and expressive speech generation. However, these systems are designed for general adults and overlook…
cs.SD2025
MNV-17: A High-Quality Performative Mandarin Dataset for Nonverbal Vocalization Recognition in Speech
Jialong Mai, Jinxin Ji, Xiaofen Xing +4
Mainstream Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems excel at transcribing lexical content, but largely fail to recognize nonverbal vocalizations (NVs) embedded in speech, such as…
cs.SD2025
DrawSpeech: Expressive Speech Synthesis Using Prosodic Sketches as Control Conditions
Weidong Chen, Shan Yang, Guangzhi Li +1
Controlling text-to-speech (TTS) systems to synthesize speech with the prosodic characteristics expected by users has attracted much attention. To achieve controllability, current…