no code implementations • 17 Nov 2021 • Konstantinos Markopoulos, Nikolaos Ellinas, Alexandra Vioni, Myrsini Christidou, Panos Kakoulidis, Georgios Vamvoukakis, Georgia Maniati, June Sig Sung, Hyoungmin Park, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Aimilios Chalamandaris
In this paper, a text-to-rapping/singing system is introduced, which can be adapted to any speaker's voice.
no code implementations • 17 Nov 2021 • Georgia Maniati, Nikolaos Ellinas, Konstantinos Markopoulos, Georgios Vamvoukakis, June Sig Sung, Hyoungmin Park, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Pirros Tsiakoulis
Subsequently, we fine-tune the model with very limited data of a new speaker's voice in either a seen or an unseen language, and achieve synthetic speech of equal quality, while preserving the target speaker's identity.
no code implementations • 17 Nov 2021 • Nikolaos Ellinas, Georgios Vamvoukakis, Konstantinos Markopoulos, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Georgia Maniati, Panos Kakoulidis, Spyros Raptis, June Sig Sung, Hyoungmin Park, Pirros Tsiakoulis
This paper presents an end-to-end text-to-speech system with low latency on a CPU, suitable for real-time applications.
no code implementations • 6 Apr 2022 • Georgia Maniati, Alexandra Vioni, Nikolaos Ellinas, Karolos Nikitaras, Konstantinos Klapsas, June Sig Sung, Gunu Jho, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Pirros Tsiakoulis
In this work, we present the SOMOS dataset, the first large-scale mean opinion scores (MOS) dataset consisting of solely neural text-to-speech (TTS) samples.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2022 • Nikolaos Ellinas, Georgios Vamvoukakis, Konstantinos Markopoulos, Georgia Maniati, Panos Kakoulidis, June Sig Sung, Inchul Hwang, Spyros Raptis, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Pirros Tsiakoulis
When used in a cross-lingual setting, acoustic features are initially produced with a native speaker of the target language and then voice conversion is applied by the same model in order to convert these features to the target speaker's voice.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2022 • Karolos Nikitaras, Konstantinos Klapsas, Nikolaos Ellinas, Georgia Maniati, June Sig Sung, Inchul Hwang, Spyros Raptis, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Pirros Tsiakoulis
We show that the fine-grained latent space also captures coarse-grained information, which is more evident as the dimension of latent space increases in order to capture diverse prosodic representations.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2022 • Konstantinos Markopoulos, Georgia Maniati, Georgios Vamvoukakis, Nikolaos Ellinas, Georgios Vardaxoglou, Panos Kakoulidis, Junkwang Oh, Gunu Jho, Inchul Hwang, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Spyros Raptis
The gender of any voice user interface is a key element of its perceived identity.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2022 • Alexandra Vioni, Georgia Maniati, Nikolaos Ellinas, June Sig Sung, Inchul Hwang, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Pirros Tsiakoulis
In modern high-quality neural TTS systems, prosodic appropriateness with regard to the spoken content is a decisive factor for speech naturalness.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2024 • Panos Kakoulidis, Nikolaos Ellinas, Georgios Vamvoukakis, Myrsini Christidou, Alexandra Vioni, Georgia Maniati, Junkwang Oh, Gunu Jho, Inchul Hwang, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Aimilios Chalamandaris
In this paper, we propose a singing voice synthesis model, Karaoker-SSL, that is trained only on text and speech data as a typical multi-speaker acoustic model.
no code implementations • 2 Apr 2024 • Michael Mitsios, Georgios Vamvoukakis, Georgia Maniati, Nikolaos Ellinas, Georgios Dimitriou, Konstantinos Markopoulos, Panos Kakoulidis, Alexandra Vioni, Myrsini Christidou, Junkwang Oh, Gunu Jho, Inchul Hwang, Georgios Vardaxoglou, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Spyros Raptis
We thus redefine the emotion labeling problem by shifting it from a traditional classification model to an ordinal classification one, where discrete emotions are arranged in a sequential order according to their valence levels.