Chenghao Cai

Yuanchao Wang, Wenji Du, Chenghao Cai et al.

The attention mechanism has largely improved the performance of end-to-end speech recognition systems. However, the underlying behaviours of attention is not yet clearer. In this study, we use decision trees to explain how the attention mechanism impact itself in speech recognition. The results indicate that attention levels are largely impacted by their previous states rather than the encoder and decoder patterns. Additionally, the default attention mechanism seems to put more weights on closer states, but behaves poorly on modelling long-term dependencies of attention states.

Dengfeng Ke, Yuxing Lu, Xudong Liu et al.

With the rapid development of neural network architectures and speech processing models, singing voice synthesis with neural networks is becoming the cutting-edge technique of digital music production. In this work, in order to explore how to improve the quality and efficiency of singing voice synthesis, in this work, we use encoder-decoder neural models and a number of vocoders to achieve singing voice synthesis. We conduct experiments to demonstrate that the models can be trained using voice data with pitch information, lyrics and beat information, and the trained models can produce smooth, clear and natural singing voice that is close to real human voice. As the models work in the end-to-end manner, they allow users who are not domain experts to directly produce singing voice by arranging pitches, lyrics and beats.

Jiang-jian Xie, Chang-qing Ding, Wen-bin Li et al.

Based on the transfer learning, we design a bird species identification model that uses the VGG-16 model (pretrained on ImageNet) for feature extraction, then a classifier consisting of two fully-connected hidden layers and a Softmax layer is attached. We compare the performance of the proposed model with the original VGG16 model. The results show that the former has higher train efficiency, but lower mean average precisions(MAP). To improve the MAP of the proposed model, we investigate the result fusion mode to form multi-channel identification model, the best MAP reaches 0.9998. The number of model parameters is 13110, which is only 0.0082% of the VGG16 model. Also, the size demand of sample is decreased.