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most citedJTubeSpeech: corpus of Japanese speech collected from YouTube for speech recognition and speaker verification

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17 papers

eess.AS2024

SaSLaW: Dialogue Speech Corpus with Audio-visual Egocentric Information Toward Environment-adaptive Dialogue Speech Synthesis

Osamu Take, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Kentaro Seki +2

This paper presents SaSLaW, a spontaneous dialogue speech corpus containing synchronous recordings of what speakers speak, listen to, and watch. Humans consider the diverse environ…

cs.CL2024

Textless Dependency Parsing by Labeled Sequence Prediction

Shunsuke Kando, Yusuke Miyao, Jason Naradowsky +1

Traditional spoken language processing involves cascading an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system into text processing models. In contrast, "textless" methods process speech r…

eess.AS2024

Who Finds This Voice Attractive? A Large-Scale Experiment Using In-the-Wild Data

Hitoshi Suda, Aya Watanabe, Shinnosuke Takamichi

This paper introduces CocoNut-Humoresque, an open-source large-scale speech likability corpus that includes speech segments and their per-listener likability scores. Evaluating voi…

cs.SD2024

Spatial Voice Conversion: Voice Conversion Preserving Spatial Information and Non-target Signals

Kentaro Seki, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Norihiro Takamune +3

This paper proposes a new task called spatial voice conversion, which aims to convert a target voice while preserving spatial information and non-target signals. Traditional voice…

cs.SD2024

Noise-Robust Voice Conversion by Conditional Denoising Training Using Latent Variables of Recording Quality and Environment

Takuto Igarashi, Yuki Saito, Kentaro Seki +4

We propose noise-robust voice conversion (VC) which takes into account the recording quality and environment of noisy source speech. Conventional denoising training improves the no…

cs.SD2024

SRC4VC: Smartphone-Recorded Corpus for Voice Conversion Benchmark

Yuki Saito, Takuto Igarashi, Kentaro Seki +4

We present SRC4VC, a new corpus containing 11 hours of speech recorded on smartphones by 100 Japanese speakers. Although high-quality multi-speaker corpora can advance voice conver…