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Unsupervised Pivot Translation for Distant Languages
In this work, we introduce unsupervised pivot translation for distant languages, which translates a language to a distant language through multiple hops, and the unsupervised translation on each hop is relatively easier than the original direct translation.
Microsoft Research Asia's Systems for WMT19
We Microsoft Research Asia made submissions to 11 language directions in the WMT19 news translation tasks.
A Study of Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) has recently been investigated from different aspects (e. g., pivot translation, zero-shot translation, fine-tuning, or training from scratch) and in different settings (e. g., rich resource and low resource, one-to-many, and many-to-one translation).
FastCorrect: Fast Error Correction with Edit Alignment for Automatic Speech Recognition
A straightforward solution to reduce latency, inspired by non-autoregressive (NAR) neural machine translation, is to use an NAR sequence generation model for ASR error correction, which, however, comes at the cost of significantly increased ASR error rate.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+4
Analyzing and Mitigating Interference in Neural Architecture Search
In this paper, we investigate the interference issue by sampling different child models and calculating the gradient similarity of shared operators, and observe: 1) the interference on a shared operator between two child models is positively correlated with the number of different operators; 2) the interference is smaller when the inputs and outputs of the shared operator are more similar.
FastCorrect 2: Fast Error Correction on Multiple Candidates for Automatic Speech Recognition
Although multiple candidates are generated by an ASR system through beam search, current error correction approaches can only correct one sentence at a time, failing to leverage the voting effect from multiple candidates to better detect and correct error tokens.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+2
A study on the efficacy of model pre-training in developing neural text-to-speech system
However, in terms of ultimately achieved system performance for target speaker(s), the actual benefits of model pre-training are uncertain and unstable, depending very much on the quantity and text content of training data.
Speech-T: Transducer for Text to Speech and Beyond
Experiments on LJSpeech datasets demonstrate that Speech-T 1) is more robust than the attention based autoregressive TTS model due to its inherent monotonic alignments between text and speech; 2) naturally supports streaming TTS with good voice quality; and 3) enjoys the benefit of joint modeling TTS and ASR in a single network.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
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NaturalSpeech: End-to-End Text to Speech Synthesis with Human-Level Quality
In this paper, we answer these questions by first defining the human-level quality based on the statistical significance of subjective measure and introducing appropriate guidelines to judge it, and then developing a TTS system called NaturalSpeech that achieves human-level quality on a benchmark dataset.
Ranked #1 on
Text-To-Speech Synthesis
on LJSpeech
(using extra training data)
Transcormer: Transformer for Sentence Scoring with Sliding Language Modeling
Previous works on sentence scoring mainly adopted either causal language modeling (CLM) like GPT or masked language modeling (MLM) like BERT, which have some limitations: 1) CLM only utilizes unidirectional information for the probability estimation of a sentence without considering bidirectional context, which affects the scoring quality; 2) MLM can only estimate the probability of partial tokens at a time and thus requires multiple forward passes to estimate the probability of the whole sentence, which incurs large computation and time cost.
BinauralGrad: A Two-Stage Conditional Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Binaural Audio Synthesis
Combining this novel perspective of two-stage synthesis with advanced generative models (i. e., the diffusion models), the proposed BinauralGrad is able to generate accurate and high-fidelity binaural audio samples.
PromptTTS: Controllable Text-to-Speech with Text Descriptions
Thus, we develop a text-to-speech (TTS) system (dubbed as PromptTTS) that takes a prompt with both style and content descriptions as input to synthesize the corresponding speech.
Mask the Correct Tokens: An Embarrassingly Simple Approach for Error Correction
Since the error rate of the incorrect sentence is usually low (e. g., 10\%), the correction model can only learn to correct on limited error tokens but trivially copy on most tokens (correct tokens), which harms the effective training of error correction.
SoftCorrect: Error Correction with Soft Detection for Automatic Speech Recognition
In this paper, we propose SoftCorrect with a soft error detection mechanism to avoid the limitations of both explicit and implicit error detection.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+2
ResGrad: Residual Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Text to Speech
Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) are emerging in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis because of their strong capability of generating high-fidelity samples.
NaturalSpeech 2: Latent Diffusion Models are Natural and Zero-Shot Speech and Singing Synthesizers
To enhance the zero-shot capability that is important to achieve diverse speech synthesis, we design a speech prompting mechanism to facilitate in-context learning in the diffusion model and the duration/pitch predictor.
Extract and Attend: Improving Entity Translation in Neural Machine Translation
Inspired by this translation process, we propose an Extract-and-Attend approach to enhance entity translation in NMT, where the translation candidates of source entities are first extracted from a dictionary and then attended to by the NMT model to generate the target sentence.
PromptTTS 2: Describing and Generating Voices with Text Prompt
TTS approaches based on the text prompt face two main challenges: 1) the one-to-many problem, where not all details about voice variability can be described in the text prompt, and 2) the limited availability of text prompt datasets, where vendors and large cost of data labeling are required to write text prompts for speech.
AIR-Bench: Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models via Generative Comprehension
By revealing the limitations of existing LALMs through evaluation results, AIR-Bench can provide insights into the direction of future research.
NaturalSpeech 3: Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis with Factorized Codec and Diffusion Models
Specifically, 1) we design a neural codec with factorized vector quantization (FVQ) to disentangle speech waveform into subspaces of content, prosody, timbre, and acoustic details; 2) we propose a factorized diffusion model to generate attributes in each subspace following its corresponding prompt.
