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.
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2022 • Konstantinos Klapsas, Karolos Nikitaras, Nikolaos Ellinas, June Sig Sung, Inchul Hwang, Spyros Raptis, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Pirros Tsiakoulis
A large part of the expressive speech synthesis literature focuses on learning prosodic representations of the speech signal which are then modeled by a prior distribution during inference.
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 • 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 • 11 Apr 2022 • Karolos Nikitaras, Georgios Vamvoukakis, Nikolaos Ellinas, Konstantinos Klapsas, Konstantinos Markopoulos, Spyros Raptis, June Sig Sung, Gunu Jho, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Pirros Tsiakoulis
A text-to-speech (TTS) model typically factorizes speech attributes such as content, speaker and prosody into disentangled representations. Recent works aim to additionally model the acoustic conditions explicitly, in order to disentangle the primary speech factors, i. e. linguistic content, prosody and timbre from any residual factors, such as recording conditions and background noise. This paper proposes unsupervised, interpretable and fine-grained noise and prosody modeling.
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2022 • Konstantinos Klapsas, Nikolaos Ellinas, Karolos Nikitaras, Georgios Vamvoukakis, Panos Kakoulidis, Konstantinos Markopoulos, Spyros Raptis, June Sig Sung, Gunu Jho, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Pirros Tsiakoulis
This method enables us to train our model in an unlabeled multispeaker dataset as well as use unseen speaker embeddings to copy a speaker's voice.
no code implementations • 19 Nov 2021 • Konstantinos Klapsas, Nikolaos Ellinas, June Sig Sung, Hyoungmin Park, Spyros Raptis
This paper presents an expressive speech synthesis architecture for modeling and controlling the speaking style at a word level.
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 • LREC 2014 • Chalam, Aimilios aris, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Sotiris Karabetsos, Spyros Raptis
Creating new voices for a TTS system often requires a costly procedure of designing and recording an audio corpus, a time consuming and effort intensive task.