Recently, ChatGPT, along with DALL-E-2 and Codex, has been gaining significant attention
from society. As a result, many individuals have become interested in related resources and …

Recently, Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has gained significant attention
from society, especially with the rise of Generative AI (GAI) techniques such as ChatGPT …

Speech output technology is finding widespread application, including in scenarios where
intelligibility might be compromised–at least for some listeners–by adverse conditions …

The use of live and recorded speech is widespread in applications where correct message
reception is important. Furthermore, the deployment of synthetic speech in such applications …

Instrumental intelligibility metrics are commonly used as an alternative to listening tests. This
paper evaluates 12 monaural intrusive intelligibility metrics: SII, HEGP, CSII, HASPI, NCM …

Speech output is used extensively, including in situations where correct message reception
is threatened by adverse listening conditions. Recently, there has been a growing interest in …

The increased adoption of digital assistants makes text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems
an indispensable feature of modern mobile devices. It is hence desirable to build a system …

Spectro-temporal modulations are believed to mediate the analysis of speech sounds in the
human primary auditory cortex. Inspired by humans' robustness in comprehending speech …

Understanding speech played back in noisy and reverberant conditions remains a
challenging task. This paper describes the Hurricane Challenge 2.0, the second large-scale …

It is desirable for a text-to-speech system to take into account the environment where
synthetic speech is presented, and provide appropriate context-dependent output to the …