Roberto Barra-Chicote

Principal Researcher, Artificial General Intelligence, Amazon

Joined

July 2019

Names

Roberto Barra

Emails

****@amazon.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

Artificial General Intelligence, Amazon (amazon.com)

2015 – Present

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (upm.es)

2009 – 2015

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

Thomas Drugman

2016 – 2024

Expertise

Audio and Music

2022 – 2024

Speech

2000 – 2024

Publications

Comparing normalizing flows and diffusion models for prosody and acoustic modelling in text-to-speech
Guangyan Zhang, Thomas Merritt, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Biel Tura Vecino, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Kamil Pokora, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Sebastian Cygert, Ammar Abbas, Piotr Bilinski, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Daniel Korzekwa, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 06 Nov 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Voice Filter: Few-Shot Text-to-Speech Speaker Adaptation Using Voice Conversion as a Post-Processing Module
Adam Gabrys, Goeric Huybrechts, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Chung-Ming Chien, Julian Roth, Giulia Comini, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Bartek Perz, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 28 Jun 2023
- ICASSP 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Stutter-TTS: Controlled Synthesis and Improved Recognition of Stuttered Speech
Xin Zhang, Iván Vallés-Pérez, Andreas Stolcke, Chengzhu Yu, Jasha Droppo, Olabanji Shonibare, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Venkatesh Ravichandran
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 02 Oct 2023
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Creating New Voices using Normalizing Flows
Piotr Bilinski, Thomas Merritt, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Kamil Pokora, Sebastian Cygert, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Daniel Korzekwa
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 06 Nov 2023
- INTERSPEECH 2022
- Readers: Everyone
GlowVC: Mel-spectrogram space disentangling model for language-independent text-free voice conversion
Magdalena Proszewska, Grzegorz Beringer, Daniel Sáez-Trigueros, Thomas Merritt, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Roberto Barra-Chicote
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 Feb 2024
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Text-free non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion using normalising flows
Thomas Merritt, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Piotr Bilinski, Magdalena Proszewska, Kamil Pokora, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Daniel Korzekwa
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 Feb 2024
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Remap, Warp and Attend: Non-Parallel Many-to-Many Accent Conversion with Normalizing Flows
Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Thomas Merritt, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Piotr Bilinski, Magdalena Proszewska, Kamil Pokora, Renard Korzeniowski, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Daniel Korzekwa
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 Feb 2024
- SLT 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Text-Free Non-Parallel Many-To-Many Voice Conversion Using Normalising Flow
Thomas Merritt, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Piotr Bilinski, Magdalena Proszewska, Kamil Pokora, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Daniel Korzekwa
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 Feb 2024
- ICASSP 2022
- Readers: Everyone
GlowVC: Mel-spectrogram space disentangling model for language-independent text-free voice conversion
Magdalena Proszewska, Grzegorz Beringer, Daniel Sáez-Trigueros, Thomas Merritt, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Roberto Barra-Chicote
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 Feb 2024
- INTERSPEECH 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Machine Translation Verbosity Control for Automatic Dubbing
Surafel Melaku Lakew, Marcello Federico, Yue Wang, Cuong Hoang, Yogesh Virkar, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Robert Enyedi
- 2021 (modified: 08 Jan 2022)
- ICASSP 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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