Code-switching, the alternation of languages within a conversation or utterance, is a
common communicative phenomenon that occurs in multilingual communities across the …

We present free high quality multi-speaker speech corpora for Gujarati, Kannada,
Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, which are six of the twenty two official languages of …

While the performance of cross-lingual TTS based on monolingual corpora has been
significantly improved recently, generating cross-lingual speech still suffers from the foreign …

Modeling voices for multiple speakers and multiple languages with one speech synthesis
system has been a challenge for a long time, especially in low-resource cases. This paper …

State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis models can produce monolingual speech
with high intelligibility and naturalness. However, when the models are applied to synthesize …

We present progress towards bilingual Text-to-Speech which is able to transform a
monolingual voice to speak a second language while preserving speaker voice quality. We …

Code-switching (CS) speech, in which speakers alternate between two or more languages
in the same utterance, often occurs in multilingual communities. Such a phenomenon poses …

Since most people in the world today are multilingual, code-switching is ubiquitous in
spoken and written interactions. Paving the way for future adaptive, multilingual …

Most Indians are inherently bilingual or multilingual owing to the diverse linguistic culture in
India. As a result, code-switching is quite common in conversational speech. The objective …

Regional entities often occur in a code-mixed text in the nonnative roman script and
synthesizing them with the correct pronunciation and accent is a challenging problem …