1 code implementation • insights (ACL) 2022 • Vinayshekhar Kumar, Vaibhav Kumar, Mukul Bhutani, Alexander Rudnicky
In this work, we examine the problems associated with neural dialog models under the common theme of compositionality.
no code implementations • 16 Sep 2024 • Li-Wei Chen, Takuya Higuchi, He Bai, Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz, Alexander Rudnicky, Shinji Watanabe, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Barry-John Theobald, Zakaria Aldeneh
Additionally, prediction targets can vary in the level of detail they encode; targets that encode fine-grained acoustic details are beneficial for denoising tasks, while targets that encode higher-level abstractions are more suited for content-related tasks.
1 code implementation • 22 Jun 2023 • Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar, Chen Zhang, Chengguang Tang, Ke Shi, Sarik Ghazarian, João Sedoc, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Alexander Rudnicky
The advent and fast development of neural networks have revolutionized the research on dialogue systems and subsequently have triggered various challenges regarding their automatic evaluation.
1 code implementation • 8 Feb 2023 • Li-Wei Chen, Shinji Watanabe, Alexander Rudnicky
Recent Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems trained on reading or acted corpora have achieved near human-level naturalness.
1 code implementation • 12 Nov 2022 • Li-Wei Chen, Shinji Watanabe, Alexander Rudnicky
To address these issues, we devise a cascaded modular system leveraging self-supervised discrete speech units as language representation.
2 code implementations • 3 Nov 2021 • Chen Zhang, João Sedoc, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael Banchs, Alexander Rudnicky
The development of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems (ODS)is a trending topic due to the large number of research challenges, large societal and business impact, and advances in the underlying technology.
1 code implementation • 12 Oct 2021 • Li-Wei Chen, Alexander Rudnicky
In this paper, we present a novel architecture to realize fine-grained style control on the transformer-based text-to-speech synthesis (TransformerTTS).
1 code implementation • 12 Oct 2021 • Li-Wei Chen, Alexander Rudnicky
While Wav2Vec 2. 0 has been proposed for speech recognition (ASR), it can also be used for speech emotion recognition (SER); its performance can be significantly improved using different fine-tuning strategies.
1 code implementation • LREC 2020 • Tzu-Hsiang Lin, Alexander Rudnicky, Trung Bui, Doo Soon Kim, Jean Oh
Our system grounds language on the level of edit operations, and suggests options for a user to choose from.
2 code implementations • 31 Jan 2019 • Emily Dinan, Varvara Logacheva, Valentin Malykh, Alexander Miller, Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Iulian Serban, Ryan Lowe, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Alan W. black, Alexander Rudnicky, Jason Williams, Joelle Pineau, Mikhail Burtsev, Jason Weston
We describe the setting and results of the ConvAI2 NeurIPS competition that aims to further the state-of-the-art in open-domain chatbots.
no code implementations • 8 Nov 2017 • Huiting Liu, Tao Lin, Hanfei Sun, Weijian Lin, Chih-Wei Chang, Teng Zhong, Alexander Rudnicky
RubyStar is a dialog system designed to create "human-like" conversation by combining different response generation strategies.
no code implementations • 19 Jun 2017 • Arjun Bhardwaj, Alexander Rudnicky
Since the classifier is meant to serve as a module in a practical dialog system, it needs to be able to work with limited training data and incorporate new data on the fly.