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Main Authors: Nguyen, Tuan-Nam, Pham, Ngoc-Quan, Akti, Seymanur, Waibel, Alexander
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16580
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author Nguyen, Tuan-Nam
Pham, Ngoc-Quan
Akti, Seymanur
Waibel, Alexander
author_facet Nguyen, Tuan-Nam
Pham, Ngoc-Quan
Akti, Seymanur
Waibel, Alexander
contents We propose a first streaming accent conversion (AC) model that transforms non-native speech into a native-like accent while preserving speaker identity, prosody and improving pronunciation. Our approach enables stream processing by modifying a previous AC architecture with an Emformer encoder and an optimized inference mechanism. Additionally, we integrate a native text-to-speech (TTS) model to generate ideal ground-truth data for efficient training. Our streaming AC model achieves comparable performance to the top AC models while maintaining stable latency, making it the first AC system capable of streaming.
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spellingShingle Streaming Non-Autoregressive Model for Accent Conversion and Pronunciation Improvement
Nguyen, Tuan-Nam
Pham, Ngoc-Quan
Akti, Seymanur
Waibel, Alexander
Computation and Language
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
We propose a first streaming accent conversion (AC) model that transforms non-native speech into a native-like accent while preserving speaker identity, prosody and improving pronunciation. Our approach enables stream processing by modifying a previous AC architecture with an Emformer encoder and an optimized inference mechanism. Additionally, we integrate a native text-to-speech (TTS) model to generate ideal ground-truth data for efficient training. Our streaming AC model achieves comparable performance to the top AC models while maintaining stable latency, making it the first AC system capable of streaming.
title Streaming Non-Autoregressive Model for Accent Conversion and Pronunciation Improvement
topic Computation and Language
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16580