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Personalising speech-to-speech translation: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis

Dines, John  
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Liang, Hui  
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Saheer, Lakshmi
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2013
Computer Speech and Language

In this paper we present results of unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation applied to text-to-speech synthesis. The application of our research is the personalisation of speech-to-speech translation in which we employ a HMM statistical framework for both speech recognition and synthesis. This framework provides a logical mechanism to adapt synthesised speech output to the voice of the user by way of speech recognition. In this work we present results of several different unsupervised and cross-lingual adaptation approaches as well as an end-to-end speaker adaptive speech-to-speech translation system. Our experiments show that we can successfully apply speaker adaptation in both unsupervised and cross-lingual scenarios and our proposed algorithms seem to generalise well for several language pairs. We also discuss important future directions including the need for better evaluation metrics.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.csl.2011.08.003
Author(s)
Dines, John  
Liang, Hui  
Saheer, Lakshmi
Gibson, Matthew
Byrne, William
Oura, Keiichiro
Tokuda, Keiichi
Yamagishi, Junichi
King, Simon
Wester, Mirjam
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Date Issued

2013

Published in
Computer Speech and Language
Volume

27

Issue

2

Start page

420

End page

437

Subjects

cross-lingual speaker adaptation

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Machine Translation

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speech recognition

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speech synthesis

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LIDIAP  
Available on Infoscience
December 19, 2013
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/98140
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