7 accepted papers
Generative Speech Models (GSMs) have seen a surge in popularity due to their ability to generate diverse and high-quality speech. Evaluating models that generate many different renditions for a given input sentence presents a new challenge. Listening tests are still the gold standard for evaluating…
Tokenising continuous speech into sequences of discrete tokens and modelling them with language models (LMs) has led to significant success in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. Despite these models can generate speech with high quality and naturalness, their synthesised samples can still suffer from a…
This paper introduces PFlow-VC, a conditional flow matching voice conversion model that leverages fine-grained discrete pitch tokens and target speaker prompt information for expressive voice conversion (VC). Previous VC works primarily focus on speaker conversion, with further exploration needed in…
Recently there has been a lot of interest in non-autoregressive (non-AR) models for speech synthesis, such as FastSpeech 2 and diffusion models. Unlike AR models, these models do not have autoregressive dependencies among outputs which makes inference efficient. This paper expands the range of avail…
This paper reports on the design and outcomes of the 2nd Clarity Enhancement Challenge (CEC2), a challenge for stimulating novel approaches to hearing-aid speech intelligibility enhancement. The challenge was for a listener attending to a target speaker in a noisy, domestic environment. The challeng…
End-to-end models have achieved significant improvement on automatic speech recognition. One common method to improve performance of these models is expanding the data-space through data augmentation. Meanwhile, human auditory inspired front-ends have also demonstrated improvement for automatic spee…
Hearing aids are expected to improve speech intelligibility for listeners with hearing impairment. An appropriate amplification fitting tuned for the listener’s hearing disability is critical for good performance. The developments of most prescriptive fittings are based on data collected in subjecti…