Ron J. Weiss

Google Research, NY
0000-0003-2010-4053
https://ronw.net
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Highly Influential Citations3,953
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Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python
Scikit-learn is a Python module integrating a wide range of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for medium-scale supervised and unsupervised problems. This package focuses on bringing…
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Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning Wavenet on MEL Spectrogram Predictions
This paper describes Tacotron 2, a neural network architecture for speech synthesis directly from text. The system is composed of a recurrent sequence-to-sequence feature prediction network that maps…
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Tacotron: Towards End-to-End Speech Synthesis
TLDR
Tacotron is presented, an end-to-end generative text- to-speech model that synthesizes speech directly from characters that achieves a 3.82 subjective 5-scale mean opinion score on US English, outperforming a production parametric system in terms of naturalness.
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CNN architectures for large-scale audio classification
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This work uses various CNN architectures to classify the soundtracks of a dataset of 70M training videos with 30,871 video-level labels, and investigates varying the size of both training set and label vocabulary, finding that analogs of the CNNs used in image classification do well on the authors' audio classification task, and larger training and label sets help up to a point.
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LibriTTS: A Corpus Derived from LibriSpeech for Text-to-Speech
TLDR
Experimental results show that neural end-to-end TTS models trained from the LibriTTS corpus achieved above 4.0 in mean opinion scores in naturalness in five out of six evaluation speakers.
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Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis
TLDR
It is shown that randomly sampled speaker embeddings can be used to synthesize speech in the voice of novel speakers dissimilar from those used in training, indicating that the model has learned a high quality speaker representation.
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Towards End-to-End Prosody Transfer for Expressive Speech Synthesis with Tacotron
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An extension to the Tacotron speech synthesis architecture that learns a latent embedding space of prosody, derived from a reference acoustic representation containing the desired prosody results in synthesized audio that matches the prosody of the reference signal with fine time detail.
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Model-Based Expectation-Maximization Source Separation and Localization
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This paper describes a model-based expectation-maximization source separation and localization system for separating and localizing multiple sound sources from an underdetermined reverberant two-channel recording, and creates probabilistic spectrogram masks that can be used for source separation.
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State-of-the-Art Speech Recognition with Sequence-to-Sequence Models
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A variety of structural and optimization improvements to the Listen, Attend, and Spell model are explored, which significantly improve performance and a multi-head attention architecture is introduced, which offers improvements over the commonly-used single- head attention.
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Tacotron: A Fully End-to-End Text-To-Speech Synthesis Model
TLDR
This paper presents Tacotron, an end- to-end generative text-to-speech model that synthesizes speech directly from characters, and presents several key techniques to make the sequence-tosequence framework perform well for this challenging task.
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