Foreign Accent Conversion by Synthesizing Speech from Phonetic Posteriorgrams

Guanlong Zhao, Shaojin Ding, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA

Systems

Notes

Compare baseline and proposed system

L2 speaker L1 reference speech L2 reference speech Baseline Proposed
YKWK
YKWK
YKWK
ZHAA
ZHAA
ZHAA

Samples for mispronunciation and unexpected intonation by the proposed system

Condition L1 reference speech L2 reference speech Proposed
Mispronunciation
Unexpected intonation

References

[1] G. Zhao, S. Sonsaat, J. Levis, E. Chukharev-Hudilainen, and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "Accent conversion using phonetic posteriorgrams," in Proc. ICASSP, 2018.

[2] G. Zhao, S. Sonsaat, A. Silpachai, I. Lucic, E. Chukharev-Hudilainen, J. Levis, and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "L2-ARCTIC: A non-native English speech corpus," in Proc. Interspeech, 2018.