Generative Data Augmentation Challenge: Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis for Personalized Speech Enhancement
This addresses the problem of data scarcity for personalized speech enhancement due to privacy and technical constraints, though it is incremental as it builds on existing generative models.
The paper introduces a challenge for zero-shot text-to-speech systems to generate synthetic data for personalized speech enhancement, aiming to overcome privacy and recording issues in data collection, with baseline experiments provided to benchmark progress.
This paper presents a new challenge that calls for zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems to augment speech data for the downstream task, personalized speech enhancement (PSE), as part of the Generative Data Augmentation workshop at ICASSP 2025. Collecting high-quality personalized data is challenging due to privacy concerns and technical difficulties in recording audio from the test scene. To address these issues, synthetic data generation using generative models has gained significant attention. In this challenge, participants are tasked first with building zero-shot TTS systems to augment personalized data. Subsequently, PSE systems are asked to be trained with this augmented personalized dataset. Through this challenge, we aim to investigate how the quality of augmented data generated by zero-shot TTS models affects PSE model performance. We also provide baseline experiments using open-source zero-shot TTS models to encourage participation and benchmark advancements. Our baseline code implementation and checkpoints are available online.