3 accepted papers
Controlling text-to-speech (TTS) systems to synthesize speech with the prosodic characteristics expected by users has attracted much attention. To achieve controllability, current studies focus on two main directions: (1) using reference speech as prosody prompt to guide speech synthesis, and (2) us…
Speech emotions are crucial in human communication and are extensively used in fields like speech synthesis and natural language understanding. Most prior studies, such as speech emotion recognition, have categorized speech emotions into a fixed set of classes. Yet, emotions expressed in human spee…
Recurrent neural networks, such as gated recurrent units (GRUs) and long short-term memory (LSTM), are widely used on acoustic modeling for speech synthesis. However, such sequential generating processes are not friendly to today’s massively parallel computing devices. We introduce a fully convoluti…