no code implementations • 11 Jan 2023 • Georgi Tinchev, Marta Czarnowska, Kamil Deja, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Marius Cotescu
Prior work on modelling accents assumes a phonetic transcription is available for the target accent, which might not be the case for low-resource, regional accents.
no code implementations • 11 Dec 2019 • Marius Cotescu, Thomas Drugman, Goeric Huybrechts, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Alexis Moinet
We present an approach to synthesize whisper by applying a handcrafted signal processing recipe and Voice Conversion (VC) techniques to convert normally phonated speech to whispered speech.
no code implementations • 28 Nov 2019 • Vatsal Aggarwal, Marius Cotescu, Nishant Prateek, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote
We propose a Text-to-Speech method to create an unseen expressive style using one utterance of expressive speech of around one second.