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Dependence on Early and Late Reverberation of Single-Channel Speaker Distance Estimation MIST: Multimodal Interactive Speech-based Tool-calling Conversational Assistants for Smart Homes LiVeAction: a Lightweight, Versatile, and Asymmetric Neural Codec Design for Real-time Operation Weight-Decay Turns Transformer Loss Landscapes Villani: Functional-Analytic Foundations for Optimization and Generalization PairAlign: A Framework for Sequence Tokenization via Self-Alignment with Applications to Audio Tokenization WavCube: Unifying Speech Representation for Understanding and Generation via Semantic-Acoustic Joint Modeling Predictive-Generative Drift Decomposition for Speech Enhancement and Separation Minimizing Modality Gap from the Input Side: Your Speech LLM Can Be a Prosody-Aware Text LLM X-Voice: Enabling Everyone to Speak 30 Languages via Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning JASTIN: Aligning LLMs for Zero-Shot Audio and Speech Evaluation via Natural Language Instructions Phoneme-Level Deepfake Detection Across Emotional Conditions Using Self-Supervised Embeddings When Audio-Language Models Fail to Leverage Multimodal Context for Dysarthric Speech Recognition Dimensionality-Aware Anomaly Detection in Learned Representations of Self-Supervised Speech Models Mitigating Multimodal LLMs Hallucinations via Relevance Propagation at Inference Time Virtual Speech Therapist: A Clinician-in-the-Loop AI Speech Therapy Agent for Personalized and Supervised Therapy LASE: Language-Adversarial Speaker Encoding for Indic Cross-Script Identity Preservation Towards Improving Speaker Distance Estimation through Generative Impulse Response Augmentation Beyond Decodability: Reconstructing Language Model Representations with an Encoding Probe MMAudioReverbs: Video-Guided Acoustic Modeling for Dereverberation and Room Impulse Response Estimation Alethia: A Foundational Encoder for Voice Deepfakes From Birdsong to Rumbles: Classifying Elephant Calls with Out-of-Species Embeddings Beyond the Baseband: Adaptive Multi-Band Encoding for Full-Spectrum Bioacoustics Classification Predicting Upcoming Stuttering Events from Three-Second Audio: Stratified Evaluation Reveals Severity-Selective Precursors, and the Model Deploys Fully On-Device The False Resonance: A Critical Examination of Emotion Embedding Similarity for Speech Generation Evaluation DiffAnon: Diffusion-based Prosody Control for Voice Anonymization Recurrence-Based Nonlinear Vocal Dynamics as Digital Biomarkers for Depression Detection from Conversational Speech One Voice, Many Tongues: Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning for Scientific Speech Similarity Choice and Negative Scaling in Supervised Contrastive Learning for Deepfake Audio Detection Walking Through Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of Uncertainty Estimation for Audio-Aware Large Language Models Praxy Voice: Voice-Prompt Recovery + BUPS for Commercial-Class Indic TTS from a Frozen Non-Indic Base at Zero Commercial-Training-Data Cost
Building a Luganda Text-to-Speech Model From Crowdsourced...
Sulaiman Kagumire, Andrew Katumba, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, John · 2024-05-17 · via eess.AS updates on arXiv.org

Text-to-speech (TTS) development for African languages such as Luganda is still limited, primarily due to the scarcity of high-quality, single-speaker recordings essential for training TTS models. Prior work has focused on utilizing the Luganda Common Voice recordings of multiple speakers aged between 20-49. Although the generated speech is intelligible, it is still of lower quality than the model trained on studio-grade recordings. This is due to the insufficient data preprocessing methods applied to improve the quality of the Common Voice recordings. Furthermore, speech convergence is more difficult to achieve due to varying intonations, as well as background noise. In this paper, we show that the quality of Luganda TTS from Common Voice can improve by training on multiple speakers of close intonation in addition to further preprocessing of the training data. Specifically, we selected six female speakers with close intonation determined by subjectively listening and comparing their voice recordings. In addition to trimming out silent portions from the beginning and end of the recordings, we applied a pre-trained speech enhancement model to reduce background noise and enhance audio quality. We also utilized a pre-trained, non-intrusive, self-supervised Mean Opinion Score (MOS) estimation model to filter recordings with an estimated MOS over 3.5, indicating high perceived quality. Subjective MOS evaluations from nine native Luganda speakers demonstrate that our TTS model achieves a significantly better MOS of 3.55 compared to the reported 2.5 MOS of the existing model. Moreover, for a fair comparison, our model trained on six speakers outperforms models trained on a single-speaker (3.13 MOS) or two speakers (3.22 MOS). This showcases the effectiveness of compensating for the lack of data from one speaker with data from multiple speakers of close intonation to improve TTS quality.