Research Projects, Papers, Books, etc.

Submission from ZMM-TTS for Blizzard Challenge 2025

Author：Jesujoba O. Alabi, Cheng Gong, Erica Cooper, Yu Jiang, Dietrich Klakow, Junichi Yamagishi

• #Audio processing
• #Low-resource languages
• #Speech synthesis

Continual Subjective Evaluation Method of Speech by Merging Sort-based Preference Tests Towards Ever-Expanding Corpus of Human Ratings

Author：Yusuke Yasuda, Junichi Yamagishi, Tomoki Toda

• #Audio processing
• #Speech synthesis
• #Quality Evaluation

Hot topics in speech synthesis evaluation

Author: Gérard Bailly, Elisabeth André, Erica Cooper, Esther Klabbers, Benjamin Cowan, Jens Edlund, Naomi Harte, Simon King, Sébastien Le Maguer, Roger K. Moore, Bernd Möbius, Sebastian Möller, Ayushi Pandey, Olivier Perrotin, Fritz Seebauer, Sofia Strömbergsson, David R. Traum, Christina Tånnander, Petra Wagner, Junichi Yamagishi, Yusuke Yasuda

• #Audio processing
• #Speech synthesis
• #Quality Evaluation

Mitigating Language Mismatch in SSL-Based Speaker Anonymization

Author: Zhe Zhang, Wen-Chin Huang, Xin Wang, Xiaoxiao Miao, Junichi Yamagishi

• #Audio processing
• #privacy

A Comparative Study on Proactive and Passive Detection of Deepfake Speech

Author: Chia-Hua Wu, Wanying Ge, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Ming Wang

• #Audio processing
• #DeepfakeDetection
• #watermark

From Sharpness to Better Generalization for Speech Deepfake Detection

Author: Wen Huang, Xuechen Liu, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi, Yanmin Qian

• #Audio processing
• #DeepfakeDetection

AfriHuBERT: A self-supervised speech representation model for African languages

Author：Jesujoba O. Alabi, Xuechen Liu, Dietrich Klakow, Junichi Yamagishi

• #Audio processing
• #Low-resource languages

InterAct: A Large-Scale Dataset of Dynamic, Expressive and Interactive Activities between Two People in Daily Scenarios

Author：Leo Ho, Yinghao Huang, Dafei Qin, Mingyi Shi, Wangpok Tse, Wei Liu, Junichi Yamagishi, Taku Komura

• #Image processing
• #Movement generation

Toward a Universal Deepfake Audio Detector: Robust Deepfake Detection of Speech and Non-Speech in Real-World Conditions

Author: Wanying Ge (Principal Researcher)

Qualispeech: A speech quality assessment dataset with natural language reasoning and descriptions

Author：Siyin Wang, Wenyi Yu, Xianzhao Chen, Xiaohai Tian, Jun Zhang, Lu Lu, Yu Tsao, Junichi Yamagishi, Yuxuan Wang, Chao Zhang

• #Audio processing
• #Quality Evaluation