Papers by Shan-Hui Cathy Chu
Crowdsourcing Latin American Spanish for Low-Resource Text-to-Speech (2020.lrec-1)
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Adriana Guevara-Rukoz, Isin Demirsahin, Fei He, Shan-Hui Cathy Chu, Supheakmungkol Sarin, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Alexander Gutkin, Alena Butryna, Oddur Kjartansson
| Challenge: | Using crowd-sourced datasets, we build a text-to-speech voice for a new dialect in a language with existing resources. |
| Approach: | They propose a multidialectal corpus approach for building a text-to-speech voice for a new dialect in a language with existing resources using crowd-sourcing. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models in a “zero-resource” dialect scenario while holding out target dialect recordings from the training data. |
Open-source Multi-speaker Speech Corpora for Building Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu Speech Synthesis Systems (2020.lrec-1)
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Fei He, Shan-Hui Cathy Chu, Oddur Kjartansson, Clara Rivera, Anna Katanova, Alexander Gutkin, Isin Demirsahin, Cibu Johny, Martin Jansche, Supheakmungkol Sarin, Knot Pipatsrisawat
| Challenge: | We present free high quality multi-speaker speech corpora for Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu . the datasets are primarily intended for use in text-to-speech applications, such as constructing multilingual voices or language adaptation. |
| Approach: | They present a free high quality multi-speaker speech corpora for Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu . they use it to build a multilingual text-to-speech model that can be scaled to other languages of interest. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model produces good quality voices with MOS > 3.6 for all the languages tested. |