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Improving Speech Prosody of Audiobook Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Acoustic and Textual Contexts
Detai Xin, Sharath Adavanne, Federico Ang +3
We present a multi-speaker Japanese audiobook text-to-speech (TTS) system that leverages multimodal context information of preceding acoustic context and bilateral textual context…
JaCappella Corpus: A Japanese a Cappella Vocal Ensemble Corpus
Tomohiko Nakamura, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Naoko Tanji +2
We construct a corpus of Japanese a cappella vocal ensembles (jaCappella corpus) for vocal ensemble separation and synthesis. It consists of 35 copyright-cleared vocal ensemble son…
Text-to-speech synthesis from dark data with evaluation-in-the-loop data selection
Kentaro Seki, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Takaaki Saeki +1
This paper proposes a method for selecting training data for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis from dark data. TTS models are typically trained on high-quality speech corpora that cos…
Mid-attribute speaker generation using optimal-transport-based interpolation of Gaussian mixture models
Aya Watanabe, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Yuki Saito +2
In this paper, we propose a method for intermediating multiple speakers' attributes and diversifying their voice characteristics in ``speaker generation,'' an emerging task that ai…
Visual onoma-to-wave: environmental sound synthesis from visual onomatopoeias and sound-source images
Hien Ohnaka, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Keisuke Imoto +3
We propose a method for synthesizing environmental sounds from visually represented onomatopoeias and sound sources. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates a sound structure, i.e.…
Improving robustness of spontaneous speech synthesis with linguistic speech regularization and pseudo-filled-pause insertion
Yuta Matsunaga, Takaaki Saeki, Shinnosuke Takamichi +1
We present a training method with linguistic speech regularization that improves the robustness of spontaneous speech synthesis methods with filled pause (FP) insertion. Spontaneou…