Voice command generation using Progressive Wavegans

no code implementations • 13 Mar 2019 • Thomas Wiest, NIcholas Cummins, Alice Baird, Simone Hantke, Judith Dineley, Björn Schuller

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become exceedingly popular in a wide range of data-driven research fields, due in part to their success in image generation.

Audio Generation Image Generation

Assessing the Prosody of Non-Native Speakers of English: Measures and Feature Sets

no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Eduardo Coutinho, Florian H{\"o}nig, Yue Zhang, Simone Hantke, Anton Batliner, Elmar N{\"o}th, Bj{\"o}rn Schuller

We also discuss the impact of various fusion strategies on performance. Overall, our results demonstrate that the prosody of non-native speakers of English as L2 can be reliably assessed using supra-segmental audio features; prosodic features seem to be the most important ones.

regression

Introducing the Weighted Trustability Evaluator for Crowdsourcing Exemplified by Speaker Likability Classification

no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Simone Hantke, Erik Marchi, Bj{\"o}rn Schuller

Crowdsourcing is an arising collaborative approach applicable among many other applications to the area of language and speech processing.

General Classification