Abstract: This paper investigates leveraging large-scale speech data to enhance prosodic modeling in speech synthesis, and introduces a model named SP2MC which achieves self-supervised prosody ...

Abstract: Prosody plays a fundamental role in human speech and communication, facilitating intelligibility and conveying emotional and cognitive states. Extracting accurate prosodic information from ...

Even the smallest tonal variations, such as a speaker’s emphasis or intent, can significantly guide speech processing.

A new study reveals that Heschl’s gyrus, once thought to only process sound, actually plays a crucial role in interpreting speech melody, or prosody.

Researchers discover that Heschl’s gyrus plays a major role in interpreting speech qualities like pitch, tone, and emphasis.

Using intracerebral recordings, the authors find abstract prosodic categories in continuous speech are encoded differently to segmental features by Heschl’s gyrus, suggesting specialized ...

"The periods may communicate emphasis or may mimic a prosodic feature such as a dramatic pause after each word, being heard as staccato speech in readers' inner speech," reads the study published ...

Neural speech tracking in children with cochlear implants shows that an early phase of hearing loss affects sensory and higher-level processing differently. Tracking is present at short timescales ...

Dubformer team Emotion Transfer captures acoustic details like echoes and reverberations, enhancing immersion and ensuring dubbing never f ...