Songfan Yang

Upgrading CRFS to JRFS and its Benefits to Sequence Modeling and Labeling

2020

Two important sequence tasks are sequence modeling and labeling. Sequence modeling involves determining the probabilities of sequences, e.g. language modeling. It is still difficult to improve language modeling with additional relevant tags, e.g. part-of-speech (POS) …

Recent Advances in Multimodal Educational Data Mining in K-12 Education

2020

Recently we have seen a rapid rise in the amount of education data available through the digitization of education. This huge amount of education data usually exhibits in a mixture form of images, videos, speech, …

Controllable Emphatic Speech Synthesis based on Forward Attention for Expressive Speech Synthesis

2021

In speech interaction scenarios, speech emphasis is essential for expressing the underlying intention and attitude. Recently, end-to-end emphatic speech synthesis greatly improves the naturalness of synthetic speech, but also brings new problems: 1) lack of …