Sounds familiar: A speaker identity-controllable framework for machine speech translation
E-Mail IMAGE: Voice conversion is carried out by selecting target speaker embedding from speaker codebook. Voice characteristic can be independently controlled via principal components of speaker embedding. view more Credit: Masato Akagi Ishikawa, Japan - Robots today have come a long way from their early inception as insentient beings meant primarily for mechanical assistance to humans. Today, they can assist us intellectually and even emotionally, getting ever better at mimicking conscious humans. An integral part of this ability is the use of speech to communicate with the user...
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