5 papers
Data Augmentation for Pathological Speech Enhancement
Mingchi Hou, Enno Hermann, Ina Kodrasi
The performance of state-of-the-art speech enhancement (SE) models considerably degrades for pathological speech due to atypical acoustic characteristics and limited data availabil…
Children's Voice Privacy: First Steps And Emerging Challenges
Ajinkya Kulkarni, Francisco Teixeira, Enno Hermann +3
Children are one of the most under-represented groups in speech technologies, as well as one of the most vulnerable in terms of privacy. Despite this, anonymization techniques targ…
Unsupervised Rhythm and Voice Conversion to Improve ASR on Dysarthric Speech
Karl El Hajal, Enno Hermann, Sevada Hovsepyan +1
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems struggle with dysarthric speech due to high inter-speaker variability and slow speaking rates. To address this, we explore dysarthric-to-…
kNN Retrieval for Simple and Effective Zero-Shot Multi-speaker Text-to-Speech
Karl El Hajal, Ajinkya Kulkarni, Enno Hermann +1
While recent zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) models achieve impressive results, they typically rely on extensive transcribed speech datasets from numerous speakers and…
Unsupervised Rhythm and Voice Conversion of Dysarthric to Healthy Speech for ASR
Karl El Hajal, Enno Hermann, Ajinkya Kulkarni +1
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are well known to perform poorly on dysarthric speech. Previous works have addressed this by speaking rate modification to reduce the mis…