Korin Richmond

Invert-Classify: Recovering Discrete Prosody Inputs for Text-To-Speech

2023

Modeling prosody in Text-to-Speech (TTS) is challenging due to ambiguous orthography and the high cost of annotating prosodic events. This study focuses on the modeling of contrastive focus, the emphasis of a word to contrast …

Low-dimensional Style Token Control for Hyperarticulated Speech Synthesis

2024

Global style tokens (GSTs) allow for rich modelling of the variation in a speech corpus and subsequent control of text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). However, certain styles of speech may be marked by variation along multiple dimensions, …