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AMTA 20202020We present Sockeye 2, a modernized and streamlined version of the Sockeye neural machine translation (NMT) toolkit. New features include a simplified code base through the use of MXNet’s Gluon API, a focus on state of the art model architectures, distributed mixed precision training, and efficient CPU decoding with 8-bit quantization. These improvements result in faster training and inference, higher automatic
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Interspeech 20202020Neural network applications generally benefit from larger-sized models, but for current speech enhancement models, larger scale networks often suffer from decreased robustness to the variety of real-world use cases beyond what is encountered in training data. We introduce several innovations that lead to better large neural networks for speech enhancement. The novel PoCoNet architecture is a convolutional
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Interspeech 20202020Using data from multiple dialects has shown promise in improving neural network acoustic models. While such training can improve the performance of an acoustic model on a single dialect, it can also produce a model capable of good performance on multiple dialects. However, training an acoustic model on pooled data from multiple dialects takes a significant amount of time and computing resources, and it
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Interspeech 20202020Recent advances in Text-to-Speech (TTS) have improved quality and naturalness to near-human capabilities. But something which is still lacking in order to achieve human-like communication is the dynamic variations and adaptability of human speech in more complex scenarios. This work attempts to solve the problem of achieving a more dynamic and natural intonation in TTS systems, particularly for stylistic
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ECCV 20202020We propose a method to train a model so it can learn new classification tasks while improving with each task solved. This amounts to combining meta-learning with incremental learning. Different tasks can have disjoint classes, so one cannot directly align different classifiers as done in model distillation. On the other hand, simply aligning features shared by all classes does not allow the base model sufficient
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