4 papers
CodecFlow: Efficient Bandwidth Extension via Conditional Flow Matching in Neural Codec Latent Space
Bowen Zhang, Junchuan Zhao, Ian McLoughlin +2
Speech Bandwidth Extension improves clarity and intelligibility by restoring/inferring appropriate high-frequency content for low-bandwidth speech. Existing methods often rely on s…
CLARITY: Contextual Linguistic Adaptation and Accent Retrieval for Dual-Bias Mitigation in Text-to-Speech Generation
Crystal Min Hui Poon, Pai Chet Ng, Xiaoxiao Miao +4
Instruction-guided text-to-speech (TTS) research has reached a maturity level where excellent speech generation quality is possible on demand, yet two coupled biases persist in red…
Automated evaluation of children's speech fluency for low-resource languages
Bowen Zhang, Nur Afiqah Abdul Latiff, Justin Kan +4
Assessment of children's speaking fluency in education is well researched for majority languages, but remains highly challenging for low resource languages. This paper proposes a s…
On-Device LLMs for SMEs: Challenges and Opportunities
Jeremy Stephen Gabriel Yee, Pai Chet Ng, Zhengkui Wang +3
This paper presents a systematic review of the infrastructure requirements for deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on-device within the context of small and medium-sized enterpr…