4 papers
EmoFI-TTS: Face-Conditioned Expressive Voice Synthesis with Intensity Modulation
Yejin Jeon, Luel Hagos Beyene, Marie Maltais +2
Controlling emotional intensity remains challenging in expressive text-to-speech synthesis, particularly when emotion must be inferred without explicit labels. We propose EmoFI-TTS…
OpenBibleTTS: Large-Scale Speech Resources and TTS Models for Low-Resource Languages
David Guzmán, Luel Hagos Beyene, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi +3
Recent advances in neural text-to-speech (TTS) and multilingual speech generation have substantially improved synthetic speech quality, yet these gains remain unevenly distributed…
Ibom NLP: A Step Toward Inclusive Natural Language Processing for Nigeria's Minority Languages
Oluwadara Kalejaiye, Luel Hagos Beyene, David Ifeoluwa Adelani +4
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with a population of more than 200 million people. More than 500 languages are spoken in Nigeria and it is one of the most linguistic…
mSTEB: Massively Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs on Speech and Text Tasks
Luel Hagos Beyene, Vivek Verma, Min Ma +4
Large Language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on a wide range of tasks, including in multimodal settings such as speech. However, their evaluation is often…