Shaofei Zhang — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

Stylespeech: Self-Supervised Style Enhancing with VQ-VAE-Based Pre-Training for Expressive Audiobook Speech Synthesis

Xueyuan Chen, Xi Wang, Shaofei Zhang, Lei He, Zhiyong Wu, Xixin Wu +1

ICASSP 2024accepted

The expressive quality of synthesized speech for audiobooks is limited by generalized model architecture and unbalanced style distribution in the training data. To address these issues, in this paper, we propose a self-supervised style enhancing method with VQ-VAE-based pre-training for expressive a…

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2016

Exemplar-based sparse representation of timbre and prosody for voice conversion

Huaiping Ming, Dong-Yan Huang, Lei Xie, Shaofei Zhang, Minghui Dong, Haizhou Li

ICASSP 2016accepted

Voice conversion (VC) aims to make one speaker (source) to sound like spoken by another speaker (target) without changing the language content. Most of the state-of-the-art voice conversion systems focus only on timbre conversion. However, the speaker identity is characterized by the source-related…

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