4 papers
VocalAgent: Large Language Models for Vocal Health Diagnostics with Safety-Aware Evaluation
Yubin Kim, Taehan Kim, Wonjune Kang +8
Vocal health plays a crucial role in peoples' lives, significantly impacting their communicative abilities and interactions. However, despite the global prevalence of voice disorde…
Expressive Speech Retrieval using Natural Language Descriptions of Speaking Style
Wonjune Kang, Deb Roy
We introduce the task of expressive speech retrieval, where the goal is to retrieve speech utterances spoken in a given style based on a natural language description of that style.…
Frozen Large Language Models Can Perceive Paralinguistic Aspects of Speech
Wonjune Kang, Junteng Jia, Chunyang Wu +8
This work studies the capabilities of a large language model (LLM) to understand paralinguistic aspects of speech without fine-tuning its weights. We utilize an end-to-end system w…
Counting Guidance for High Fidelity Text-to-Image Synthesis
Wonjun Kang, Kevin Galim, Hyung Il Koo +1
Recently, there have been significant improvements in the quality and performance of text-to-image generation, largely due to the impressive results attained by diffusion models. H…