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Investigation for Relative Voice Impression Estimation
Kenichi Fujita, Yusuke Ijima
Paralinguistic and non-linguistic aspects of speech strongly influence listener impressions. While most research focuses on absolute impression scoring, this study investigates rel…
Voice Impression Control in Zero-Shot TTS
Kenichi Fujita, Shota Horiguchi, Yusuke Ijima
Para-/non-linguistic information in speech is pivotal in shaping the listeners' impression. Although zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved high speaker fidelity, modulating s…
Multi-interaction TTS toward professional recording reproduction
Hiroki Kanagawa, Kenichi Fujita, Aya Watanabe +1
Voice directors often iteratively refine voice actors' performances by providing feedback to achieve the desired outcome. While this iterative feedback-based refinement process is…
Lightweight Zero-shot Text-to-Speech with Mixture of Adapters
Kenichi Fujita, Takanori Ashihara, Marc Delcroix +1
The advancements in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) methods, based on large-scale models, have demonstrated high fidelity in reproducing speaker characteristics. However, these mode…