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Tacotron: Towards End-to-End Speech Synthesis
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Tacotron is presented, an end-to-end generative text- to-speech model that synthesizes speech directly from characters that achieves a 3.82 subjective 5-scale mean opinion score on US English, outperforming a production parametric system in terms of naturalness.
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LibriTTS: A Corpus Derived from LibriSpeech for Text-to-Speech
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Experimental results show that neural end-to-end TTS models trained from the LibriTTS corpus achieved above 4.0 in mean opinion scores in naturalness in five out of six evaluation speakers.
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Towards End-to-End Prosody Transfer for Expressive Speech Synthesis with Tacotron
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An extension to the Tacotron speech synthesis architecture that learns a latent embedding space of prosody, derived from a reference acoustic representation containing the desired prosody results in synthesized audio that matches the prosody of the reference signal with fine time detail.
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Tacotron: A Fully End-to-End Text-To-Speech Synthesis Model
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This paper presents Tacotron, an end- to-end generative text-to-speech model that synthesizes speech directly from characters, and presents several key techniques to make the sequence-tosequence framework perform well for this challenging task.
Multisyn: Open-domain unit selection for the Festival speech synthesis system
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Festival 2 - build your own general purpose unit selection speech synthesiser
This paper describes version 2 of the Festival speech synthesis system. Festival 2 provides a development environment for concatenative speech synthesis, and now includes a general purpose unit…
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The Blizzard Challenge 2008
The Blizzard Challenge 2008 was the fourth annual Blizzard Challenge. This year, participants were asked to build two voices from a UK English corpus and one voice from a Man- darin Chinese corpus.…
On generating combilex pronunciations via morphological analysis
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This paper proposes this method of modelling pronunciations can be exploited further by combining it with a morphological parser, thus yielding a method to generate full transcriptions for unknown derived words.
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Robust LTS rules with the Combilex speech technology lexicon
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A loose comparison with other studies indicates Combilex is a superior quality lexicon in terms of consistency and size.
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CHiVE: Varying Prosody in Speech Synthesis with a Linguistically Driven Dynamic Hierarchical Conditional Variational Network
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It is shown that the dynamic hierarchical network outperforms a non-hierarchical state-of-the-art baseline, and, additionally, that prosody transfer across sentences is possible by employing the prosody embedding of one sentence to generate the speech signal of another.
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