{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/laughter-synthesis-combining-seq2seq-modeling","title":"Laughter Synthesis: Combining Seq2seq modeling with Transfer Learning","arxiv_id":"2008.09483","date":"2020-08-20","proceeding":null,"authors":["Noé Tits","Kevin El Haddad","Thierry Dutoit"],"abstract":"Despite the growing interest for expressive speech synthesis, synthesis of nonverbal expressions is an under-explored area. In this paper we propose an audio laughter synthesis system based on a sequence-to-sequence TTS synthesis system. We leverage transfer learning by training a deep learning model to learn to generate both speech and laughs from annotations. We evaluate our model with a listening test, comparing its performance to an HMM-based laughter synthesis one and assess that it reaches higher perceived naturalness. Our solution is a first step towards a TTS system that would be able to synthesize speech with a control on amusement level with laughter integration.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09483v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.09483v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"laughter-synthesis-combining-seq2seq-modeling","repo_url":"https://github.com/numediart/LaughterSynthesis","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"expressive-speech-synthesis","task_name":"Expressive Speech Synthesis"},{"task_slug":"speech-synthesis","task_name":"Speech Synthesis"},{"task_slug":"transfer-learning","task_name":"Transfer Learning"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2008.09483","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}