In speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis, there are a few speakers whose synthetic speech sounds worse than that of other speakers, despite having the same amount of adaptat...
Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Bela ...
To ensure a satisfactory QoE (Quality of Experience) and facilitate system design in speech recognition services, it is essential to establish a method that can be used to efficie...
A fast speech extraction (FSE) method is presented using convex optimization made possible by pause detection of the speech sources. Sparse unmixing filters are sought by l1 regul...
Musical noise often arises in the outputs of time-frequency binary mask based blind source separation approaches. Postprocessing is desired to enhance the separation quality. An e...
It is well known that the lowest tone in Mandarin, a language without contrastive phonation, often co-occurs with laryngealization/creaky voice quality, and we provide evidence th...