Accented Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Limited Data

no code implementations • 8 May 2023 • Xuehao Zhou, Mingyang Zhang, Yi Zhou, Zhizheng Wu, Haizhou Li

Both objective and subjective evaluation results show that the accented TTS front-end fine-tuned with a small accented phonetic lexicon (5k words) effectively handles the phonetic variation of accents, while the accented TTS acoustic model fine-tuned with a limited amount of accented speech data (approximately 3 minutes) effectively improves the prosodic rendering including pitch and duration.

Speech Synthesis Text-To-Speech Synthesis

Exploring Teacher-Student Learning Approach for Multi-lingual Speech-to-Intent Classification

no code implementations • 28 Sep 2021 • Bidisha Sharma, Maulik Madhavi, Xuehao Zhou, Haizhou Li

In particular, we use synthesized speech generated from an English-Mandarin text corpus for analysis and training of a multi-lingual intent classification model.

Classification intent-classification +1