Search Results for author: Shaofei Zhang

Found 7 papers, 0 papers with code

StyleSpeech: Self-supervised Style Enhancing with VQ-VAE-based Pre-training for Expressive Audiobook Speech Synthesis

no code implementations19 Dec 2023 Xueyuan Chen, Xi Wang, Shaofei Zhang, Lei He, Zhiyong Wu, Xixin Wu, Helen Meng

Both objective and subjective evaluations demonstrate that our proposed method can effectively improve the naturalness and expressiveness of the synthesized speech in audiobook synthesis especially for the role and out-of-domain scenarios.

Speech Synthesis

Large-Scale Automatic Audiobook Creation

no code implementations7 Sep 2023 Brendan Walsh, Mark Hamilton, Greg Newby, Xi Wang, Serena Ruan, Sheng Zhao, Lei He, Shaofei Zhang, Eric Dettinger, William T. Freeman, Markus Weimer

In this work, we present a system that can automatically generate high-quality audiobooks from online e-books.

MuLanTTS: The Microsoft Speech Synthesis System for Blizzard Challenge 2023

no code implementations6 Sep 2023 Zhihang Xu, Shaofei Zhang, Xi Wang, Jiajun Zhang, Wenning Wei, Lei He, Sheng Zhao

In this paper, we present MuLanTTS, the Microsoft end-to-end neural text-to-speech (TTS) system designed for the Blizzard Challenge 2023.

Speech Synthesis

ContextSpeech: Expressive and Efficient Text-to-Speech for Paragraph Reading

no code implementations3 Jul 2023 Yujia Xiao, Shaofei Zhang, Xi Wang, Xu Tan, Lei He, Sheng Zhao, Frank K. Soong, Tan Lee

Experiments show that ContextSpeech significantly improves the voice quality and prosody expressiveness in paragraph reading with competitive model efficiency.

Sentence

ParaTTS: Learning Linguistic and Prosodic Cross-sentence Information in Paragraph-based TTS

no code implementations14 Sep 2022 Liumeng Xue, Frank K. Soong, Shaofei Zhang, Lei Xie

To alleviate the difficulty in training, we propose to model linguistic and prosodic information by considering cross-sentence, embedded structure in training.

Position Sentence

Self-supervised Context-aware Style Representation for Expressive Speech Synthesis

no code implementations25 Jun 2022 Yihan Wu, Xi Wang, Shaofei Zhang, Lei He, Ruihua Song, Jian-Yun Nie

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for learning style representation from abundant plain text in a self-supervised manner.

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