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Interspeech 20222022An essential design decision for multilingual Neural Text-ToSpeech (NTTS) systems is how to represent input linguistic features within the model. Looking at the wide variety of approaches in the literature, two main paradigms emerge, unified and separate representations. The former uses a shared set of phonetic tokens across languages, whereas the latter uses unique phonetic tokens for each language. In
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Interspeech 20222022Generating expressive and contextually appropriate prosody remains a challenge for modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems. This is particularly evident for long, multi-sentence inputs. In this paper, we examine simple extensions to a Transformer-based FastSpeech-like system, with the goal of improving prosody for multi-sentence TTS. We find that long context, powerful text features, and training on multi-speaker
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SIGIR 20222022Semantic Sourcing is a well-studied area in web and product search to improve the quality of search results. In the context of Semantic Sourcing in e-commerce search, transformer-based models like BERT (fine-tuned for relevance) can be used to encode the representation of queries into a semantic space where the semantically equivalent entities (i.e., queries for Query Reformulation (QR) or products for
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Interspeech 20222022Duration modelling has become an important research problem once more with the rise of non-attention neural text-to-speech systems. The current approaches largely fall back to relying on previous statistical parametric speech synthesis technology for duration prediction, which poorly models the expressiveness and variability in speech. In this paper, we propose two alternate approaches to improve duration
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A methodology for correlating annualized replacement rate (ARR) reduction to sustainability benefitsESREL 20222022Reducing the Annualized Replacement Rate (ARR) of a product brings a two-fold benefit to its sustainability impact. Firstly, it reduces the warranty stockpile and therefore a lower carbon footprint required to fulfill warranty replacements. Secondly, it extends the lifetime of the product, which reduces the overall carbon footprint every year during use. This paper discusses a methodology to quantify the
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