9 accepted papers
3D Morphable Models (3DMMs) demonstrate great potential for reconstructing faithful and animatable 3D facial surfaces from a single image. The facial surface is influenced by the coarse shape, as well as the static detail (e,g., person-specific appearance) and dynamic detail (e.g., expression-driven…
We propose a novel robust and efficient Speech-to-Animation (S2A) approach for synchronized facial animation generation in human-computer interaction. Compared with conventional approaches, the proposed approach utilizes phonetic posteriorgrams (PPGs) of spoken phonemes as input to ensure the cross-…
Voice conversion can benefit from WaveNet vocoder with improvement in converted speech's naturalness and quality. However, nowadays approaches segregate the training of conversion module and WaveNet vocoder towards different optimization objectives, which might lead to the difficulty in model tuning…
Speech emotion recognition (SER) plays an important role in intelligent speech interaction. One vital challenge in SER is to extract emotion-relevant features from speech signals. In state-of-the-art SER techniques, deep learning methods, e.g, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), are widely employe…
Identifying the emotional state from speech is essential for the natural interaction of the machine with the speaker. However, extracting effective features for emotion recognition is difficult, as emotions are ambiguous. We propose a novel approach to learn discriminative features from variable len…
For mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD), nowadays approaches generally treat the phonemes in correct and mispronunciations as the same despite the fact they may actually carry different characteristics. Furthermore, serious data imbalance issue between correct and mispronunciation in data…
By highlighting the focus of an utterance to draw attention, emphasis in speech interaction plays an important role for speaker intention expressing and understanding. Therefore, emphatic speech synthesis draws increasing interest in the text-to-speech (TTS) area. For emphatic speech synthesis, thre…
Bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM) recurrent neural network (RNN) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in many sequence processing problems given its capability in capturing contextual information. However, for languages with limited amount of training data, it is still difficult to o…
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and their bidirectional long short term memory (BLSTM) variants are powerful sequence modelling approaches. Their inherently strong ability in capturing long range temporal dependencies allow BLSTM-RNN speech synthesis systems to produce higher quality and smoother s…