Recent Machine Learning Papers

SynParaSpeech: Automated Synthesis of Paralinguistic Datasets for Speech Generation and Understanding

Bingsong Bai, Qihang Lu, Wenbing Yang, Zihan Sun, YueRan Hou, Peilei Jia, Songbai Pu, Ruibo Fu, Yingming Gao, Ya Li, Jun Gao

Paralinguistic sounds, like laughter and sighs, are crucial for synthesizing more realistic and engaging speech. However, existing methods typically depend on proprietary datasets, while publicly available resources often suffer from incomplete speech, inaccurate or missing timestamps, and limited r...