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IEEE Signal Processing Letters2020We present an approach to synthesize whisper by applying a handcrafted signal processing recipe and Voice Conversion (VC) techniques to convert normally phonated speech to whispered speech. We investigate using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) and Deep Neural Networks (DNN) to model the mapping between acoustic features of normal speech and those of whispered speech. We evaluate naturalness and speaker similarity
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AAAI 20202020A considerable part of the success experienced by Voice-controlled virtual assistants (VVA) is due to the emotional and personalized experience they deliver, with humor being a key component in providing an engaging interaction. In this paper we describe methods used to improve the joke skill of a VVA through personalization. The first method, based on traditional NLP techniques, is robust and scalable.
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AAAI 20202020Knowledge distillation is typically conducted by training a small model (the student) to mimic a large and cumbersome model (the teacher). The idea is to compress the knowledge from the teacher by using its output probabilities as soft labels to optimize the student. However, when the teacher is considerably large, there is no guarantee that the internal knowledge of the teacher will be transferred into
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AEA 20202020Inflation indices are important inputs into measuring aggregate productivity and cost of living and conducting monetary and economic policy. We want to contribute to the science of inflation measurement based on quality-adjusted (hedonic) prices. The main challenges today are: (1) the global trade environment (millions of products); (2) frequent price changes; (3) extremely high turnover for some products
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AAAI 20202020Task-oriented dialog agents provide a natural language interface for users to complete their goal. Dialog State Tracking (DST), which is often a core component of these systems, tracks the system’s understanding of the user’s goal throughout the conversation. To enable accurate multi-domain DST, the model needs to encode dependencies between past utterances and slot semantics and understand the dialog context
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