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JVNV: A Corpus of Japanese Emotional Speech with Verbal Content and Nonverbal Expressions
Detai Xin, Junfeng Jiang, Shinnosuke Takamichi +3
We present the JVNV, a Japanese emotional speech corpus with verbal content and nonverbal vocalizations whose scripts are generated by a large-scale language model. Existing emotio…
Coco-Nut: Corpus of Japanese Utterance and Voice Characteristics Description for Prompt-based Control
Aya Watanabe, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Yuki Saito +3
In text-to-speech, controlling voice characteristics is important in achieving various-purpose speech synthesis. Considering the success of text-conditioned generation, such as tex…
HumanDiffusion: diffusion model using perceptual gradients
Yota Ueda, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Yuki Saito +2
We propose {\it HumanDiffusion,} a diffusion model trained from humans' perceptual gradients to learn an acceptable range of data for humans (i.e., human-acceptable distribution).…
ChatGPT-EDSS: Empathetic Dialogue Speech Synthesis Trained from ChatGPT-derived Context Word Embeddings
Yuki Saito, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Eiji Iimori +2
We propose ChatGPT-EDSS, an empathetic dialogue speech synthesis (EDSS) method using ChatGPT for extracting dialogue context. ChatGPT is a chatbot that can deeply understand the co…
CALLS: Japanese Empathetic Dialogue Speech Corpus of Complaint Handling and Attentive Listening in Customer Center
Yuki Saito, Eiji Iimori, Shinnosuke Takamichi +2
We present CALLS, a Japanese speech corpus that considers phone calls in a customer center as a new domain of empathetic spoken dialogue. The existing STUDIES corpus covers only em…
Duration-aware pause insertion using pre-trained language model for multi-speaker text-to-speech
Dong Yang, Tomoki Koriyama, Yuki Saito +3
Pause insertion, also known as phrase break prediction and phrasing, is an essential part of TTS systems because proper pauses with natural duration significantly enhance the rhyth…