7 papers
DiT-Flow: Speech Enhancement Robust to Multiple Distortions based on Flow Matching in Latent Space and Diffusion Transformers
Tianyu Cao, Helin Wang, Ari Frummer +7
Recent advances in generative models, such as diffusion and flow matching, have shown strong performance in audio tasks. However, speech enhancement (SE) models are typically train…
Reconstruct! Don't Encode: Self-Supervised Representation Reconstruction Loss for High-Intelligibility and Low-Latency Streaming Neural Audio Codec
Junhyeok Lee, Xiluo He, Jihwan Lee +6
Neural audio codecs optimized for mel-spectrogram reconstruction often fail to preserve intelligibility. While semantic encoder distillation improves encoded representations, it do…
MaskVCT: Masked Voice Codec Transformer for Zero-Shot Voice Conversion With Increased Controllability via Multiple Guidances
Junhyeok Lee, Helin Wang, Yaohan Guan +4
We introduce MaskVCT, a zero-shot voice conversion (VC) model that offers multi-factor controllability through multiple classifier-free guidances (CFGs). While previous VC models r…
Spoken DialogSum: An Emotion-Rich Conversational Dataset for Spoken Dialogue Summarization
Yen-Ju Lu, Kunxiao Gao, Mingrui Liang +5
Recent audio language models can follow long conversations. However, research on emotion-aware or spoken dialogue summarization is constrained by the lack of data that links speech…
ReFESS-QI: Reference-Free Evaluation For Speech Separation With Joint Quality And Intelligibility Scoring
Ari Frummer, Helin Wang, Tianyu Cao +6
Source separation is a crucial pre-processing step for various speech processing tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR). Traditionally, the evaluation metrics for speech…
CapSpeech: Enabling Downstream Applications in Style-Captioned Text-to-Speech
Helin Wang, Jiarui Hai, Dading Chong +11
Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have significantly transformed the field of style-captioned text-to-speech synthesis (CapTTS). However, adapting CapTTS to…