2 papers
cs.SD2026
DistilMOS: Layer-Wise Self-Distillation For Self-Supervised Learning Model-Based MOS Prediction
Jianing Yang, Wataru Nakata, Yuki Saito +1
With the advancement of self-supervised learning (SSL), fine-tuning pretrained SSL models for mean opinion score (MOS) prediction has achieved state-of-the-art performance. However…
cs.SD2025
Emotional Text-To-Speech Based on Mutual-Information-Guided Emotion-Timbre Disentanglement
Jianing Yang, Sheng Li, Takahiro Shinozaki +2
Current emotional Text-To-Speech (TTS) and style transfer methods rely on reference encoders to control global style or emotion vectors, but do not capture nuanced acoustic details…