Pronunciation Dictionary-Free Multilingual Speech Synthesis by Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Phonetic Representations

no code implementations • 2 Jun 2022 • Chang Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Ling-Hui Chen

This paper proposes a multilingual speech synthesis method which combines unsupervised phonetic representations (UPR) and supervised phonetic representations (SPR) to avoid reliance on the pronunciation dictionaries of target languages.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

AdaDurIAN: Few-shot Adaptation for Neural Text-to-Speech with DurIAN

no code implementations • 12 May 2020 • Zewang Zhang, Qiao Tian, Heng Lu, Ling-Hui Chen, Shan Liu

This paper investigates how to leverage a DurIAN-based average model to enable a new speaker to have both accurate pronunciation and fluent cross-lingual speaking with very limited monolingual data.

Few-Shot Learning