4 accepted papers
The pipeline for multi-participant audiobook production primarily consists of three stages: script analysis, character voice timbre selection, and speech synthesis. Among these, script analysis can be automated with high accuracy using NLP models, whereas character voice timbre selection still relie…
Zero-shot singing voice conversion (SVC) transforms a source singer
Paralinguistic sounds, like laughter and sighs, are crucial for synthesizing more realistic and engaging speech. However, existing methods typically depend on proprietary datasets, while publicly available resources often suffer from incomplete speech, inaccurate or missing timestamps, and limited r…
Traditional text-to-speech (TTS) systems often face challenges in aligning text and speech, leading to the omission of critical linguistic and acoustic details. This misalignment creates an information gap, which existing methods attempt to address by incorporating additional inputs, but these often…