machine learningspeechlanguageTTSCDTSheffieldSheffield SLT CDT Conference 2022Sheffield’s CDT in Speech and Language Technologies recently hosted their second annual conference. This was the first year it was held in…
machine learningspeechTTSinterspeechSSWHighlights of SSW and INTERSPEECH 2021We were so blessed to be able to attend INTERSPEECH in person this year! (Seriously - Czechia changed their covid laws literally the week…
machine learningspeechTTSinterspeechHighlights of INTERSPEECH 2020First off, the organisers of INTERSPEECH 2020 have really outdone themselves with the first ever, fully remote INTERSPEECH this year. Of…
machine learningtext to speechreinforcement learningIncremental Text to Speech for Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Models using Reinforcement Learning(Paper, Samples) Efforts towards incremental text to speech (TTS) systems have largely focused on traditional, non-neural architectures…
machine learningphonological features0-shotTTSPhonological Features for 0-shot Multilingual Speech SynthesisSo far, code-switching is only available in multilingual models When working with video in multiple languages, something we often have to…
machine learningproductionisationsoftware engineeringml practicesml processesProductionising machine learning through the lens of semiconductor fabrication(Photo from Unsplash) Current machine learning processes leave much to be desired A persistent criticism of machine learning is the lack of…
neural vocodersmachine learningSubscale WaveRNNYou have read Efficient Neural Audio Synthesis aka the WaveRNN paper and would like to know more about how the subscale system works and how…
machine learningflowstutorialTutorial on normalizing flows, part 2In this blog post, I am going to teach you how you can make super-duper cool GIFs. Isn’t that really the point of life anyway? I will assume…
machine learningbayesianneural netsAn introduction to (and puns on) Bayesian neural networksThomas Bayes’ tomb is located at the Bunhill fields next to the Old St Roundabout in London, less than a few hundred metres from our office…
machine learningflowstutorialTutorial on normalizing flows, part 1Before we start, I would like to mention that this blog post assumes a familiarity with generative models and modern deep learning…