Speech is the fundamental mode of human communication, and its synthesis has long been
a core priority in human–computer interaction research. In recent years, machines have …

Cross-speaker emotion transfer is a common approach to generating emotional speech
when speech data with emotion labels from target speakers is not available. This paper …

Human speech can be characterized by different components, including semantic content,
speaker identity and prosodic information. Significant progress has been made in …

This paper describes a novel design of a neural network-based speech generation model
for learning prosodic representation. The problem of representation learning is formulated …

Neural text-to-speech systems are often optimized on L1/L2 losses, which make strong
assumptions about the distributions of the target data space. Aiming to improve those …

In recent years, significant attention has been directed towards the development of artificial
empathy within the engineering academic community. Replicating artificial empathy …

Recent studies have explored the development of empathetic systems, capable of engaging
in human-like communication and support in daily life tasks. This envision primarily requires …

The prosodic feature study gives insight into the suprasegmental properties of speech.
Researchers have been studying acoustic features of prosody worldwide to design a model …