6 papers
ParaMETA: Towards Learning Disentangled Paralinguistic Speaking Styles Representations from Speech
Haowei Lou, Hye-young Paik, Wen Hu +1
Learning representative embeddings for different types of speaking styles, such as emotion, age, and gender, is critical for both recognition tasks (e.g., cognitive computing and h…
SpeechAgent: An End-to-End Mobile Infrastructure for Speech Impairment Assistance
Haowei Lou, Chengkai Huang, Hye-young Paik +4
Speech is essential for human communication, yet millions of people face impairments such as dysarthria, stuttering, and aphasia conditions that often lead to social isolation and…
ParaStyleTTS: Toward Efficient and Robust Paralinguistic Style Control for Expressive Text-to-Speech Generation
Haowei Lou, Hye-Young Paik, Wen Hu +1
Controlling speaking style in text-to-speech (TTS) systems has become a growing focus in both academia and industry. While many existing approaches rely on reference audio to guide…
Generalized Multilingual Text-to-Speech Generation with Language-Aware Style Adaptation
Haowei Lou, Hye-young Paik, Sheng Li +2
Text-to-Speech (TTS) models can generate natural, human-like speech across multiple languages by transforming phonemes into waveforms. However, multilingual TTS remains challenging…
RACCOON: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Approach for Location Coordinate Capture from News Articles
Jonathan Lin, Aditya Joshi, Hye-young Paik +2
Geocoding involves automatic extraction of location coordinates of incidents reported in news articles, and can be used for epidemic intelligence or disaster management. This paper…
StyleSpeech: Parameter-efficient Fine Tuning for Pre-trained Controllable Text-to-Speech
Haowei Lou, Helen Paik, Wen Hu +1
This paper introduces StyleSpeech, a novel Text-to-Speech~(TTS) system that enhances the naturalness and accuracy of synthesized speech. Building upon existing TTS technologies, St…