Ruibo Fu

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Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 39 · 7 first-author · 29 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 32 · 4 first-author · 24 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
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2026 Trainable EEG Interpolation and Structure-Sharing Dual-Path Encoders for Brain-Assisted Target Speaker Extraction
abstract
Brain-assisted target speaker extraction (TSE) isolates a target speaker's voice from a mixture by leveraging task-specific representations in Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. However, existing methods rely on fixed interpolation for EEG-audio alignment, introducing redundant computations. They also employ single-path encoders that extract only target-relevant features while neglecting complementary, irrelevant ones, limiting discriminability. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a Trainable EEG Interpolation and Structure-sharing Dual-path Encoders network (TIDENet). The proposed Trainable EEG Interpolation (TEI) uses a neural network module to leverage cross-sample EEG information during resampling by parameters updating, thereby overcoming the limitations of fixed interpolation. The Structure-sharing Dual-path Encoders (SSDPE) extend existing speech and EEG encoders by introducing dual paths that separately process features relevant and irrelevant to the target speaker and incorporates interactive fusion between them, which enhances the encoder's ability to capture task-relevant information. Experimental results on public datasets demonstrate that TIDENet achieves relative improvements of up to 20.47%, 22.22%, 2.91%, 6.20%, and 15.84% in signal-to-distortion ratio (SDR), scale-invariant SDR (SI-SDR), short-time objective intelligibility (STOI), extended STOI (ESTOI), and perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ), respectively, compared to the state-of-the-art. These significant gains validate the effectiveness of the proposed TEI method and SSDPE architecture.
Zhao Lv, Youdian Gao, Ruibo Fu, Cunhang Fan
AAAI6
2026 Detect All-Type Deepfake Audio: Wavelet Prompt Tuning for Enhanced Auditory Perception
abstract
The rapid advancement of audio generation technologies has escalated the risks of malicious deepfake audio across speech, sound, singing voice, and music, threatening multimedia security and trust. While existing countermeasures (CMs) perform well in single-type audio deepfake detection (ADD), their performance declines in cross-type scenarios. This paper is dedicated to studying the all-type ADD task. We are the first to comprehensively establish an all-type ADD benchmark to evaluate current CMs, incorporating cross-type deepfake detection across speech, sound, singing voice, and music. Then, we introduce the prompt tuning self-supervised learning (PT-SSL) training paradigm, which optimizes SSL front-end by learning specialized prompt tokens for ADD, requiring 458× fewer trainable parameters than fine-tuning (FT). Considering the auditory perception of different audio types, we propose the wavelet prompt tuning (WPT)-SSL method to capture type-invariant auditory deepfake information from the frequency domain without requiring additional training parameters, thereby enhancing performance over FT in the all-type ADD task. To achieve an universally CM, we utilize all types of deepfake audio for co-training. Experimental results demonstrate that WPT-XLSR-AASIST achieved the best performance, with an average EER of 3.58% across all evaluation sets.
Yuankun Xie, Ruibo Fu, Songjun Cao, Haonan Cheng, Long Ye
AAAI2
2026 PSA-MF: Personality-Sentiment Aligned Multi-Level Fusion for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
abstract
Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) is a research field that recognizes human sentiments by combining textual, visual, and audio modalities. The main challenge lies in integrating sentiment-related information from different modalities, which typically arises during the unimodal feature extraction phase and the multimodal feature fusion phase. Existing methods extract only shallow information from unimodal features during the extraction phase, neglecting sentimental differences across different personalities. During the fusion phase, they directly merge the feature information from each modality without considering differences at the feature level. This ultimately affects the model's recognition performance. To address this problem, we propose a personality-sentiment aligned multi-level fusion framework. We introduce personality traits during the feature extraction phase and propose a novel personality-sentiment alignment method to obtain personalized sentiment embeddings from the textual modality for the first time. In the fusion phase, we introduce a novel multi-level fusion method. This method gradually integrates sentimental information from textual, visual, and audio modalities through multimodal pre-fusion and a multi-level enhanced fusion strategy. Our method has been evaluated through multiple experiments on two commonly used datasets, achieving state-of-the-art results.
Kang Zhu, Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua Tao 0001, Xuefei Liu, Ruibo Fu
AAAI6
2026 UniSonate: A Unified Model for Speech, Music, and Sound Effect Generation with Text Instructions
abstract
Chunyu Qiang, Xiaopeng Wang, Kang Yin, Yuzhe Liang, Yuxin Guo, Teng Ma, Ziyu Zhang, Tianrui Wang, Cheng Gong, Yushen Chen, Ruibo Fu, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang. Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2026.
Chunyu Qiang, Yuzhe Liang, Tianrui Wang, Yushen Chen, Ruibo Fu, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang 0001
ACL (1)11
2026 OpenST: Toward open-set source tracing for neural codec deepfake audio
Yuankun Xie, Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen, Songjun Cao, Chenxing Li, Haonan Cheng, Long Ye
Neurocomputing3
2026 SpeechPalette: A Comprehensive Speech Editing Method for Text-Based Speech Editing, One-Shot TTS and Attributes Editing
abstract
Speech editing has garnered more and more attention due to its diverse applications. However, existing systems often require substantial manual effort or have limited capabilities in attribute editing, imposing significant constraints. In this work, we present SpeechPalette, a comprehensive high-quality speech editing method that allows users to easily modify various attributes of the selected speech segment according to their preferences. Specifically, the proposed model approaches speech editing from a decoupling perspective, disentangling critical information such as text, pitch, duration and more from the input speech. Then, reconstruction is achieved through a mask and prediction mechanism. Furthermore, we leverage a diffusion model to predict the residuals between the real and predicted speech, further enhancing synthesis quality. The proposed method not only excels at text-based speech editing but also handles tasks involving pitch and speed rate adjustments. Moreover, it also demonstrates remarkable performance in one-shot text-to-speech scenarios. While recent large-scale models achieve impressive synthesis quality through massive computational resources, SpeechPalette offers a balanced approach with explicit fine-grained control over speech attributes, practical deployment requirements, and competitive performance relative to similarly-sized systems. Experimental results across a range of tasks consistently demonstrate the superior performance of our method compared to baseline systems. Additionally, comprehensive ablation studies validate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.
Tao Wang 0074, Jiangyan Yi, Ruibo Fu, Chunyu Qiang, Dading Chong, Dongyang Dai, Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua Tao 0001
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.3
2026 MSSG: Multi-Scale Speaker Graph Network for Active Speaker Detection
abstract
The active speaker detection task is to determine whether a person is speaking or not across a series of video frames. Existing methods heavily rely on facial information within the annotated face bounding boxes for cross-modal learning with audio. This leads to a substantial decline in detection performance when facial cues are unclear, such as in cases of face occlusion or low-resolution facial appearances. In this paper, we extend the perception scale using only face bounding box annotations to model both facial and gestural cues, addressing the over-reliance on facial cues in active speaker detection. We propose a novel graph neural network that models inter-speaker interactions and integrates various cues from individual speakers. The final detection results are obtained through a binary graph node classification task. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on the AVA-ActiveSpeaker dataset (mAP: 95.6%) and the ASW dataset (mAP: 99.4%), with a model size only 21% that of the second-best method. Additionally, when facial cues are of poor quality, our method demonstrates a significant performance advantage over existing approaches. The code and model weights will be available athttps://github.com/sdqdlgj/MSSG.
Guanjun Li, Jiangyan Yi, Zhengqi Wen, Ruibo Fu, Yuwang Wang, Jianhua Tao 0001
IEEE Trans. Multim.4
2025 Code-switching Mediated Sentence-level Semantic Learning
abstract
Code-switching is a linguistic phenomenon in which different languages are used interactively during conversation. It poses significant performance challenges to natural language processing (NLP) tasks due to the often monolingual nature of the underlying system. We focus on sentence-level semantic associations between the different code-switching expressions. And we propose an innovative task-free semantic learning method based on the semantic property. Specifically, there are many different ways of languages switching for a sentence with the same meaning. We refine this into a semantic computational method by designing the loss of semantic invariant constraint during the model optimization. In this work, we conduct thorough experiments on speech recognition, speech translation, and language modeling tasks. The experimental results fully demonstrate that the proposed method can widely improve the performance of code-switching related tasks.
Shuai Zhang 0014, Jiangyan Yi, Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua Tao 0001, Feihu Che, Ruibo Fu
AAAI7
2025 Mel-Refine: A Plug-and-Play Approach to Refine Mel-Spectrogram in Audio Generation
abstract
Mainstream Text-to-Audio (TTA) models that rely on Mel-spectrograms often struggle to generate audio with rich content, leading to blurred or incoherent outputs. This stems from an inability to model intricate spectral details and textures. We investigate the role of U-Net components in generation and find that high-frequency components in skip-connections and the backbone are crucial for texture, while low-frequency backbone components are vital for the denoising process. Based on this, we propose “Mel-Refine,” a plug-and-play approach that enhances Mel-spectrogram quality by adjusting component weights during inference. Our method requires no additional training or fine-tuning and is fully compatible with any diffusion-based TTA architecture. Experiments show that Mel-Refine boosts the performance of the latest TTA model, Tango2, by $25 \%$, demonstrating its effectiveness.
Hongming Guo, Ruibo Fu, Yizhong Geng, Shuchen Shi, Tao Wang 0074, Chunyu Qiang, Ya Li 0001, Zhengqi Wen, Xuefei Liu, Chenxing Li
ASRU2
2025 DPI-TTS: Directional Patch Interaction for Fast-Converging and Style Temporal Modeling in Text-to-Speech
abstract
In recent years, speech diffusion models have advanced rapidly. Alongside the widely used U-Net architecture, transformer-based models such as the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) have also gained attention. However, current DiT speech models treat Mel spectrograms as general images, which overlooks the specific acoustic properties of speech. To address these limitations, we propose a method called Directional Patch Interaction for Text-to-Speech (DPI-TTS), which builds on DiT and achieves fast training without compromising accuracy. Notably, DPI-TTS employs a low-to-high frequency, frame-by-frame progressive inference approach that aligns more closely with acoustic properties, enhancing the naturalness of the generated speech. Additionally, we introduce a fine-grained style temporal modeling method that further improves speaker style similarity. Experimental results demonstrate that our method increases the training speed by nearly 2 times and significantly outperforms the baseline models.
Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen, Tao Wang 0074, Chunyu Qiang, Jianhua Tao 0001, Chenxing Li, Shuchen Shi, Yuankun Xie, Xuefei Liu, Guanjun Li
ICASSP2
2025 Mixture of Experts Fusion for Fake Audio Detection Using Frozen wav2vec 2.0
abstract
Speech synthesis technology has posed a serious threat to speaker verification systems. Currently, the most effective fake audio detection methods utilize pretrained models, and integrating features from various layers of pretrained model further enhances detection performance. However, most of the previously proposed fusion methods require fine-tuning the pretrained models, resulting in excessively long training times and hindering model iteration when facing new speech synthesis technology. To address this issue, this paper proposes a feature fusion method based on the Mixture of Experts, which extracts and integrates features relevant to fake audio detection from layer features, guided by a gating network based on the last layer feature, while freezing the pretrained model. Experiments conducted on the ASVspoof2019 and ASVspoof2021 datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves competitive performance compared to those requiring fine-tuning.
Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua Tao 0001, Yuankun Xie, Shuchen Shi, Chenxing Li, Xuefei Liu, Guanjun Li
ICASSP2
2025 MTPareto: A MultiModal Targeted Pareto Framework for Fake News Detection
abstract
Multimodal fake news detection is essential for maintaining the authenticity of Internet multimedia information. Significant differences in form and content of multimodal information lead to intensified optimization conflicts, hindering effective model training as well as reducing the effectiveness of existing fusion methods for bimodal. To address this problem, we propose the MTPareto framework to optimize multimodal fusion, using a Targeted Pareto(TPareto) optimization algorithm for fusion-level-specific objective learning with a certain focus. Based on the designed hierarchical fusion network, the algorithm defines three fusion levels with corresponding losses and implements all-modal-oriented Pareto gradient integration for each. This approach accomplishes superior multimodal fusion by utilizing the information obtained from intermediate fusion to provide positive effects to the entire process. Experiment results on FakeSV and FVC datasets show that the proposed framework outperforms baselines and the TPareto optimization algorithm achieves 2.40% and 1.89% accuracy improvement respectively.
Kaiying Yan, Moyang Liu, Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua Tao 0001, Xuefei Liu, Guanjun Li
ICASSP4
2025 Hearing from Silence: Reasoning Audio Descriptions from Silent Videos via Vision-Language Model
Yong Ren 0006, Chenxing Li, Duzhen Zhang, Yujie Chen 0006, Manjie Xu, Ruibo Fu, Shan Yang 0001, Dong Yu 0001
INTERSPEECH8
2025 Mitigating Audiovisual Mismatch in Visual-Guide Audio Captioning
Chenxing Li, Yong Ren 0006, Yujie Chen 0006, Ruibo Fu, Shan Yang 0001, Dong Yu 0001
INTERSPEECH6
2025 Towards Diverse and Efficient Audio Captioning via Diffusion Models
Manjie Xu, Chenxing Li, Yong Ren 0006, Ruibo Fu, Dong Yu 0001
INTERSPEECH5
2025 MDPE: A Multimodal Deception Dataset with Personality and Emotional Characteristics
abstract
Deception detection has garnered increasing attention in recent years due to the significant growth of digital media and heightened ethical and security concerns. It has been extensively studied using multimodal methods, including video, audio, and text. In addition, individual differences in deception production and detection are believed to play a crucial role. Although some studies have utilized individual information such as personality traits to enhance the performance of deception detection, current systems remain limited, partly due to a lack of sufficient datasets for evaluating performance. To address this issue, we introduce a multimodal deception dataset MDPE. Besides deception features, this dataset also includes individual differences information in personality and emotional expression characteristics. It can explore the impact of individual differences on deception behavior. It comprises over 104 hours of deception and emotional videos from 193 subjects. Furthermore, we conducted numerous experiments to provide valuable insights for future deception detection research. MDPE not only supports deception detection, but also provides conditions for tasks such as personality recognition and emotion recognition, and can even study the relationships between them. We believe that MDPE will become a valuable resource for promoting research in the field of affective computing.
Cong Cai, Shan Liang 0007, Xuefei Liu, Kang Zhu, Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua Tao 0001, Jizhou Cui, Zhenhua Cheng, Hanzhe Xu, Ruibo Fu, Bin Liu 0041
ACM Multimedia12
2024 Minimally-Supervised Speech Synthesis with Conditional Diffusion Model and Language Model: A Comparative Study of Semantic Coding
abstract
Recently, there has been a growing interest in text-to-speech (TTS) methods that can be trained with minimal supervision by combining two types of discrete speech representations and using two sequence-to-sequence tasks to decouple TTS. However, existing methods suffer from three problems: the high-frequency waveform distortion of discrete speech representations, the prosodic averaging problem caused by the duration prediction model in non-autoregressive frameworks, and difficulty in prediction due to the information redundancy and dimension explosion of existing semantic coding methods. To address these problems, three progressive methods are proposed. First, we propose Diff-LM-Speech, an autoregressive structure consisting of a language model and diffusion models, which models the semantic embedding into the mel-spectrogram based on a diffusion model to achieve higher audio quality. We also introduce a prompt encoder structure based on a variational autoencoder and a prosody bottleneck to improve prompt representation ability. Second, we propose Tetra-Diff-Speech, a non-autoregressive structure consisting of four diffusion model-based modules that design a duration diffusion model to achieve diverse prosodic expressions. Finally, we propose Tri-Diff-Speech, a non-autoregressive structure consisting of three diffusion model-based modules that verify the non-necessity of existing semantic coding models and achieve the best results. Experimental results show that our proposed methods outperform baseline methods. We provide a website with audio samples.1
Chunyu Qiang, Hao Li 0078, He Qu, Ruibo Fu, Tao Wang 0074, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang 0001
ICASSP5
2024 Learning Speech Representation from Contrastive Token-Acoustic Pretraining
abstract
For fine-grained generation and recognition tasks such as minimally-supervised text-to-speech (TTS), voice conversion (VC), and automatic speech recognition (ASR), the intermediate representations extracted from speech should serve as a "bridge" between text and acoustic information, containing information from both modalities. The semantic content is emphasized, while the paralinguistic information such as speaker identity and acoustic details should be de-emphasized. However, existing methods for extracting fine-grained intermediate representations from speech suffer from issues of excessive redundancy and dimension explosion. Contrastive learning is a good method for modeling intermediate representations from two modalities. However, existing contrastive learning methods in the audio field focus on extracting global descriptive information for downstream audio classification tasks, making them unsuitable for TTS, VC, and ASR tasks. To address these issues, we propose a method named "Contrastive Token-Acoustic Pretraining (CTAP)", which uses two encoders to bring phoneme and speech into a joint multimodal space, learning how to connect phoneme and speech at the frame level. The CTAP model is trained on 210k speech and phoneme pairs, achieving minimally-supervised TTS, VC, and ASR. The proposed CTAP method offers a promising solution for fine-grained generation and recognition downstream tasks in speech processing. We provide a website with audio samples.1
Chunyu Qiang, Hao Li 0078, Yixin Tian, Ruibo Fu, Tao Wang 0074, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang 0001
ICASSP4
2024 Codecfake: An Initial Dataset for Detecting LLM-based Deepfake Audio
Yuankun Xie, Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua Tao 0001, Xuefei Liu, Shuchen Shi
INTERSPEECH3
2024 PPPR: Portable Plug-in Prompt Refiner for Text to Audio Generation
Shuchen Shi, Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua Tao 0001, Tao Wang 0074, Chunyu Qiang, Xuefei Liu
INTERSPEECH2
2024 Genuine-Focused Learning using Mask AutoEncoder for Generalized Fake Audio Detection
Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen, Yuankun Xie, Jianhua Tao 0001, Xuefei Liu, Shuchen Shi
INTERSPEECH2
2024 Generalized Fake Audio Detection via Deep Stable Learning
Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen, Yuankun Xie, Xuefei Liu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Shuchen Shi
INTERSPEECH2
2024 Generalized Source Tracing: Detecting Novel Audio Deepfake Algorithm with Real Emphasis and Fake Dispersion Strategy
Yuankun Xie, Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen, Haonan Cheng, Long Ye, Jianhua Tao 0001
INTERSPEECH2
2024 Emotion selectable end-to-end text-based speech editing
Tao Wang 0074, Jiangyan Yi, Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Zhengqi Wen, Chu Yuan Zhang
Artif. Intell.3
2024 SceneFake: An initial dataset and benchmarks for scene fake audio detection
Jiangyan Yi, Chenglong Wang 0001, Jianhua Tao 0001, Chuyuan Zhang, Cunhang Fan, Zhengkun Tian, Haoxin Ma, Ruibo Fu
Pattern Recognit.8
2024 CFAD: A Chinese dataset for fake audio detection
Haoxin Ma, Jiangyan Yi, Chenglong Wang 0001, Xinrui Yan, Jianhua Tao 0001, Tao Wang 0074, Ruibo Fu
Speech Commun.8
2024 Dual-Branch Knowledge Distillation for Noise-Robust Synthetic Speech Detection
abstract
Most research in synthetic speech detection (SSD) focuses on improving performance on standard noise-free datasets. However, in actual situations, noise interference is usually present, causing significant performance degradation in SSD systems. To improve noise robustness, this paper proposes a dual-branch knowledge distillation synthetic speech detection (DKDSSD) method. Specifically, a parallel data flow of the clean teacher branch and the noisy student branch is designed, and interactive fusion module and response-based teacher-student paradigms are proposed to guide the training of noisy data from both the data distribution and decision-making perspectives. In the noisy student branch, speech enhancement is introduced initially for denoising, aiming to reduce the interference of strong noise. The proposed interactive fusion combines denoised features and noisy features to mitigate the impact of speech distortion and ensure consistency with the data distribution of the clean branch. The teacher-student paradigm maps the student's decision space to the teacher's decision space, enabling noisy speech to behave similarly to clean speech. Additionally, a joint training method is employed to optimize both branches for achieving global optimality. Experimental results based on multiple datasets demonstrate that the proposed method performs effectively in noisy environments and maintains its performance in cross-dataset experiments. Source code is available athttps://github.com/fchest/DKDSSD.
Cunhang Fan, Mingming Ding, Jianhua Tao 0001, Ruibo Fu, Jiangyan Yi, Zhengqi Wen, Zhao Lv
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.4
2023 TO-Rawnet: Improving RawNet with TCN and Orthogonal Regularization for Fake Audio Detection
Chenglong Wang 0001, Jiangyan Yi, Jianhua Tao 0001, Chu Yuan Zhang, Shuai Zhang 0014, Ruibo Fu, Xun Chen 0001
INTERSPEECH6
2023 An Overview of Affective Speech Synthesis and Conversion in the Deep Learning Era
abstract
Speech is the fundamental mode of human communication, and its synthesis has long been a core priority in human–computer interaction research. In recent years, machines have managed to master the art of generating speech that is understandable by humans. However, the linguistic content of an utterance encompasses only a part of its meaning. Affect, or expressivity, has the capacity to turn speech into a medium capable of conveying intimate thoughts, feelings, and emotions—aspects that are essential for engaging and naturalistic interpersonal communication. While the goal of imparting expressivity to synthesized utterances has so far remained elusive, following recent advances in text-to-speech synthesis, a paradigm shift is well under way in the fields of affective speech synthesis and conversion as well. Deep learning, as the technology that underlies most of the recent advances in artificial intelligence, is spearheading these efforts. In this overview, we outline ongoing trends and summarize state-of-the-art approaches in an attempt to provide a broad overview of this exciting field.
Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Björn W. Schuller, Gökçe Iymen, Tevfik Metin Sezgin, Xiangheng He, Zijiang Yang 0007, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Shuo Liu 0012, Silvan Mertes, Elisabeth André, Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao 0001
Proc. IEEE11
2023 Adversarial Multi-Task Learning for Mandarin Prosodic Boundary Prediction With Multi-Modal Embeddings
abstract
Prosodic boundaries are still crucial to the naturalness of end-to-end speech synthesis systems. This article proposes to use adversarial multi-task learning to predict prosodic boundaries. Adversarial multi-task learning is utilized to transfer knowledge from an auxiliary POS tagging task to a prosodic boundary prediction task. Furthermore, multi-modal embeddings are composed of contextual word and speech embedding features obtained from the pre-trained bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) model and Speech2Vec. We can utilize linguistic and acoustic information from large amounts of external text and speech data without prosodic boundary labels. At the inference stage, the prosodic boundary predicting model can use the syntactic features learnt from the POS tagging task without any extra computation cost due to only employing the prosodic boundary predicting task to decode. We conducted experiments on Mandarin datasets. The results show that the models using multi-modal embeddings from the pre-trained BERT and Speech2Vec outperform the models trained with single modal embedding. Furthermore, the models trained with adversarial training obtain further performance gains by up to 2.95% in$F_{1}$score.
Jiangyan Yi, Jianhua Tao 0001, Ruibo Fu, Tao Wang 0074, Chu Yuan Zhang, Chenglong Wang 0001
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.3
2022 Context-Aware Mask Prediction Network for End-to-End Text-Based Speech Editing
abstract
The text-based speech editor allows the editing of speech through intuitive cutting, copying, and pasting operations to speed up the process of editing speech. However, the major drawback of current systems is that edited speech often sounds unnatural and it is not obvious how to synthesize records according to a new word not appearing in the transcript. This paper proposes a novel end-to-end text-based speech editing method called context-aware mask prediction network (CampNet), which avoids the unnatural phenomenon caused by cut-copy-paste operation in the traditional method and can synthesize a new word not appearing in the transcript. Besides, three text-based speech editing operations based on CampNet are designed: deletion, replacement, and insertion. These operations can comprehensively cover different kinds of situations that text-based speech editing can face. The subjective and objective experiments on VCTK and LibriTTS data sets show that the speech editing results based on CampNet are better than TTS technology, manual editing, and VoCo method (the combination of speech synthesis and speech conversion). We also conducted detailed ablation experiments to explore the effect of the CampNet structure on its performance. Examples of generated speech can be found at https://hairuo55.github.io/CampNet-demo.
Tao Wang 0074, Jiangyan Yi, Liqun Deng, Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Zhengqi Wen
ICASSP4
2022 ADD 2022: the first Audio Deep Synthesis Detection Challenge
abstract
Audio deepfake detection is an emerging topic, which was included in the ASVspoof 2021. However, the recent shared tasks have not covered many real-life and challenging scenarios. The first Audio Deep synthesis Detection challenge (ADD) was motivated to fill in the gap. The ADD 2022 includes three tracks: low-quality fake audio detection (LF), partially fake audio detection (PF) and audio fake game (FG). The LF track focuses on dealing with bona fide and fully fake utterances with various real-world noises etc. The PF track aims to distinguish the partially fake audio from the real. The FG track is a rivalry game, which includes two tasks: an audio generation task and an audio fake detection task. In this paper, we describe the datasets, evaluation metrics, and protocols. We also report major findings that reflect the recent advances in audio deepfake detection tasks.
Jiangyan Yi, Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Shuai Nie 0001, Haoxin Ma, Chenglong Wang 0001, Tao Wang 0074, Zhengkun Tian, Ye Bai 0001, Cunhang Fan, Shan Liang 0007, Shuai Zhang 0014, Xinrui Yan, Zhengqi Wen, Haizhou Li 0001
ICASSP2
2022 DDAM '22: 1st International Workshop on Deepfake Detection for Audio Multimedia
abstract
Over the last few years, the technology of speech synthesis and voice conversion has made significant improvement with the development of deep learning. The models can generate realistic and human-like speech. It is difficult for most people to distinguish the generated audio from the real. However, this technology also poses a great threat to the global political economy and social stability if some attackers and criminals misuse it with the intent to cause harm. In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers from the fields of audio deepfake detection, audio deep synthesis, audio fake game and adversarial attacks to further discuss recent research and future directions for detecting deepfake and manipulated audios in multimedia.
Jianhua Tao 0001, Jiangyan Yi, Cunhang Fan, Ruibo Fu, Shan Liang 0007, Pengyuan Zhang, Haizhou Li 0001, Helen M. Meng, Dong Yu 0001, Masato Akagi
ACM Multimedia4
2022 NeuralDPS: Neural Deterministic Plus Stochastic Model With Multiband Excitation for Noise-Controllable Waveform Generation
abstract
The traditional vocoders have the advantages of high synthesis efficiency, strong interpretability, and speech editability, while the neural vocoders have the advantage of high synthesis quality. To combine the advantages of two vocoders, inspired by the traditional deterministic plus stochastic model, this paper proposes a novel neural vocoder named NeuralDPS which can retain high speech quality and acquire high synthesis efficiency and noise controllability. Firstly, this framework contains four modules: a deterministic source module, a stochastic source module, a neural V/UV decision module and a neural filter module. The input required by the vocoder is just the spectral parameter, which avoids the error caused by estimating additional parameters, such as F0. Secondly, to solve the problem that different frequency bands may have different proportions of deterministic components and stochastic components, a multiband excitation strategy is used to generate a more accurate excitation signal and reduce the neural filter’s burden. Thirdly, a method to control noise components of speech is proposed. In this way, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of speech can be adjusted easily. Objective and subjective experimental results show that our proposed NeuralDPS vocoder can obtain similar performance with the WaveNet and it generates waveforms at least 280 times faster than the WaveNet vocoder. It is also 28% faster than WaveGAN’s synthesis efficiency on a single CPU core. We have also verified through experiments that this method can effectively control the noise components in the predicted speech and adjust the SNR of speech.
Tao Wang 0074, Ruibo Fu, Jiangyan Yi, Jianhua Tao 0001, Zhengqi Wen
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.2
2022 CampNet: Context-Aware Mask Prediction for End-to-End Text-Based Speech Editing
abstract
The text-based speech editor allows the editing of speech through intuitive cutting, copying, and pasting operations to speed up the process of editing speech. However, the major drawback of current systems is that edited speech often sounds unnatural due to cut-copy-paste operation. In addition, it is not obvious how to synthesize records according to a new word not appearing in the transcript, which often needs the help of text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) technology at the same time. This paper first proposes a novel end-to-end text-based speech editing method called context-aware mask prediction network (CampNet). The model can simulate the text-based speech editing process by randomly masking part of speech and then predicting the masked region by sensing the speech context. It can solve unnatural prosody in the edited region and synthesize the speech corresponding to the unseen words in the transcript. Secondly, for the possible operation of text-based speech editing, we design three text-based operations based on CampNet: deletion, insertion, and replacement. These operations can cover various situations of speech editing. Thirdly, to synthesize the speech corresponding to long text in insertion and replacement operations, a word-level autoregressive generation method is proposed, which can synthesize the speech of arbitrary length text. Fourthly, we propose a speaker adaptation method using only one sentence for CampNet and explore the ability of few-shot learning based on CampNet, which provides a new idea for speech forgery tasks. The subjective and objective experiments11Examples of generated speech can be found athttps://hairuo55.github.io/CampNet.on VCTK and LibriTTS datasets show that the speech editing results based on CampNet are better than TTS technology, manual editing, and VoCo method (the combination of TTS and VC). We also conduct detailed ablation experiments to explore the effect of the CampNet structure on its performance. Finally, the experiment shows that speaker adaptation with only one sentence can further improve the naturalness of speech editing for one-shot learning.
Tao Wang 0074, Jiangyan Yi, Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Zhengqi Wen
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.3
2021 Bi-Level Style and Prosody Decoupling Modeling for Personalized End-to-End Speech Synthesis
abstract
End-to-end framework can generate high-quality and high-similarity speech in the personalized speech synthesis task. However, the generalization of out-of-domain texts is still a challenging task. Limited target data leads to unacceptable errors and poor prosody and similarity performance of the synthetic speech. In this paper, we present a bi-level function decoupling framework to realise separate modeling and controlling for solving above problems. Firstly, on the style representation modeling level, compared with the conventional methods that use single embedding to model all the text dependent discrepancies, it is proposed that the speaker embedding and prosody embedding are modeled separately based on the reference audio and phonetic posteriorgram (PPG) by a multi-head attention mechanism. Secondly, on the model structure level, the decoder model structure is factored into average-net and adaptation-net, where the duration prosody controlling and speaker timbre imitation are mainly designed in relatively separate areas. Experimental results on Mandarin dataset show that the proposed methods lead to an improvement on both robustness, naturalness and similarity.
Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Zhengqi Wen, Jiangyan Yi, Tao Wang 0074, Chunyu Qiang
ICASSP1
2021 Prosody and Voice Factorization for Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation in the Challenge M2voc 2021
abstract
The paper describes the CASIA speech synthesis system entry for challenge M2VoC 2021. The low similarity and naturalness of synthesized speech remains a challenging problem for speaker adaptation with few resources. Since the end-to-end acoustic model is too complex to interpret, overfitting will occur when training with few data. To prevent the model from overfitting, this paper proposes a novel speaker adaptation framework that decomposes the prosody and voice characteristics in the end-to-end model. A prosody control attention is proposed to control the phonemes’ duration of different speakers. To make the attention controlled by the prosody information, a set of phoneme-level transition tokens is auto-learned from the prosody encoder in our framework and these transition tokens can determine the duration of phonemes in the attention mechanism. Secondly, when we need to use small data set for speaker adaptation, we just need to adapt the speaker related prosody model and decoder, which can prevent the model from overfitting. Further, we use a data puring model to automatically optimize the quality of datasets. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of speaker adaptation based on our method, and we (team identifier is T03) get the top three results in competition M2VoC by using this framework.
Tao Wang 0074, Ruibo Fu, Jiangyan Yi, Jianhua Tao 0001, Zhengqi Wen, Chunyu Qiang
ICASSP2
2021 Patnet : A Phoneme-Level Autoregressive Transformer Network for Speech Synthesis
abstract
Aiming at efficiently predicting acoustic features with high naturalness and robustness, this paper proposes PATNet, a neural acoustic model for speech synthesis using phoneme-level autoregression. PATNet accepts phoneme sequences as input and is built based on Transformer structure. PATNet adopts a duration model instead of attention mechanism for sequence alignment. The decoder of PATNet predicts multi-frame spectra within one phoneme in parallel given the predicted spectra of previous phonemes. Such phoneme-level autoregression enables PATNet to achieve higher inference efficiency than the models with frame-level autoregression, such as Transformer-TTS, and improves the robustness of acoustic feature prediction by utilizing phoneme boundaries explicitly. Experimental results show that the speech synthesized by PATNet obtained lower character error rate (CER) than Tacotron, Transfomer-TTS and FastSpeech when evaluated by a speech recognition engine. Besides, PATNet achieved 10 times faster inference speed than Transformer-TTS and significantly better naturalness than FastSpeech.
Zhen-Hua Ling, Ruibo Fu, Jiangyan Yi, Jianhua Tao 0001
ICASSP3
2021 Half-Truth: A Partially Fake Audio Detection Dataset
abstract
Diverse promising datasets have been designed to further the development of fake audio detection, such as ASVspoof databases.However, previous datasets ignore an attacking situation, in which the hacker hides some small fake clips in real speech audio.This poses a serious threat since that it is difficult to distinguish the small fake clip from the whole speech utterance.Therefore, this paper develops such a dataset for half-truth audio detection (HAD).Partially fake audio in the HAD dataset involves only changing a few words in an utterance.The audio of the words is generated with the very latest state-of-the-art speech synthesis technology.We can not only detect fake uttrances but also localize manipulated regions in a speech using this dataset.Some benchmark results are presented on this dataset.The results show that partially fake audio presents much more challenging than fully fake audio for fake audio detection.The HAD dataset is publicly available 1 .
Jiangyan Yi, Ye Bai 0001, Jianhua Tao 0001, Haoxin Ma, Zhengkun Tian, Chenglong Wang 0001, Tao Wang 0074, Ruibo Fu
Interspeech8
2020 Focusing on Attention: Prosody Transfer and Adaptative Optimization Strategy for Multi-Speaker End-to-End Speech Synthesis
abstract
End-to-end speech synthesis can generate high-quality synthetic speech and achieve high similarity scores with low-resource adaptation data. However, the generalization of out-domain texts is still a challenging task. The limited adaptation data leads to unacceptable errors and the poor prosody performance of the synthetic speech. In this paper, we present two novel methods to handle the above problems by focusing on the attention. Firstly, compared with the conventional methods that extract prosody embeddings for conditioning input, a duration controller with feedback mechanism is proposed, which can control the states transition in the sequence-to-sequence model more directly and precisely. Secondly, to alleviate the unmatching text-audio pairs' impact on model, an adaptative optimization strategy which would consider the matching degree of the training sample is also proposed. Experimental results on Mandarin dataset show that proposed methods lead to an improvement on both robustness and overall naturalness.
Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Zhengqi Wen, Jiangyan Yi, Tao Wang 0074
ICASSP1
2020 Dynamic Soft Windowing and Language Dependent Style Token for Code-Switching End-to-End Speech Synthesis
Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Zhengqi Wen, Jiangyan Yi, Chunyu Qiang, Tao Wang 0074
INTERSPEECH1
2020 Dynamic Speaker Representations Adjustment and Decoder Factorization for Speaker Adaptation in End-to-End Speech Synthesis
Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Zhengqi Wen, Jiangyan Yi, Tao Wang 0074, Chunyu Qiang
INTERSPEECH1
2020 Non-Autoregressive End-to-End TTS with Coarse-to-Fine Decoding
Tao Wang 0074, Xuefei Liu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Jiangyan Yi, Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen
INTERSPEECH5
2020 Bi-Level Speaker Supervision for One-Shot Speech Synthesis
Tao Wang 0074, Jianhua Tao 0001, Ruibo Fu, Jiangyan Yi, Zhengqi Wen, Chunyu Qiang
INTERSPEECH3
2020 Spoken Content and Voice Factorization for Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation
Tao Wang 0074, Jianhua Tao 0001, Ruibo Fu, Jiangyan Yi, Zhengqi Wen, Rongxiu Zhong
INTERSPEECH3
2019 Phoneme Dependent Speaker Embedding and Model Factorization for Multi-speaker Speech Synthesis and Adaptation
abstract
This paper presents an architecture to perform speaker adaption in long short-term memory (LSTM) based Mandarin statistical parametric speech synthesis system. Compared with the conventional methods that focused on using fixed global speaker representations in utterance level for speaker recognition task, the proposed method extracts speaker representations in utterance and phoneme level, which can describe more pronunciation characteristics in phoneme level. And an attention mechanism is deployed to combine each level representations dynamically to train a task-specific phoneme dependent speaker embedding. To handle the unbalanced database and avoid over-fitting, the model is factored into an average model and an adaptation model and combined by an attention mechanism. We investigate the performance of speaker representations extracted by different methods. Experimental results confirm the adaptability of our proposed speaker embedding and model factorization structure. And listening tests demonstrate that our proposed method can achieve better adaptation performance than baselines in terms of naturalness and speaker similarity.
Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Zhengqi Wen, Yibin Zheng
ICASSP1
2018 Transfer Learning Based Progressive Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis
Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Yibin Zheng, Zhengqi Wen
INTERSPEECH1
2018 Deep Metric Learning for the Target Cost in Unit-Selection Speech Synthesizer
Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao 0001, Yibin Zheng, Zhengqi Wen
INTERSPEECH1
2018 On the Application and Compression of Deep Time Delay Neural Network for Embedded Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis
Yibin Zheng, Jianhua Tao 0001, Zhengqi Wen, Ruibo Fu
INTERSPEECH4