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The paper presents a Multi-Head Attention deep learning network for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) using Log mel-Filter Bank Energies (LFBE) spectral features as the input. The multi-head attention along with the position embedding jointly attends to information from different representations of the same LFBE input sequence. The position embedding helps in attending to the dominant emotion features by identifying positions of the features in the sequence. In addition to Multi-Head Attention and position embedding, we apply multi-task learning with gender recognition as an auxiliary task.

In this paper, we propose a communication-efficient decentralized machine learning (ML) algorithm, coined quantized group ADMM (Q-GADMM). Every worker in Q-GADMM communicates only with two neighbors, and updates its model via the group alternating direct method of multiplier (GADMM), thereby ensuring fast convergence while reducing the number of communication rounds. Furthermore, each worker quantizes its model updates before transmissions, thereby decreasing the communication payload sizes.

The purpose of this study is to detect the mismatch between text script and voice-over. For this, we present a novel utterance verification (UV) method, which calculates the degree of correspondence between a voice-over and the phoneme sequence of a script. We found that the phoneme recognition probabilities of exaggerated voice-overs decrease compared to ordinary utterances, but their rankings do not demonstrate any significant change.

This paper proposes a generalized framework for domain adaptation of Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA) in speaker recognition. It not only includes several existing supervised and unsupervised domain adaptation methods but also makes possible more flexible usage of available data in different domains. In particular, we introduce here the two new techniques described below. (1) Correlation-alignment-based interpolation and (2) covariance regularization.

The present paper describes singing voice synthesis based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Singing voice synthesis systems based on deep neural networks (DNNs) are currently being proposed and are improving the naturalness of synthesized singing voices. As singing voices represent a rich form of expression, a powerful technique to model them accurately is required. In the proposed technique, long-term dependencies of singing voices are modeled by CNNs.