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ESPnet2-TTS: Extending the Edge of TTS Research
Tomoki Hayashi, Ryuichi Yamamoto, Takenori Yoshimura +7
This paper describes ESPnet2-TTS, an end-to-end text-to-speech (E2E-TTS) toolkit. ESPnet2-TTS extends our earlier version, ESPnet-TTS, by adding many new features, including: on-th…
Phrase break prediction with bidirectional encoder representations in Japanese text-to-speech synthesis
Kosuke Futamata, Byeongseon Park, Ryuichi Yamamoto +1
We propose a novel phrase break prediction method that combines implicit features extracted from a pre-trained large language model, a.k.a BERT, and explicit features extracted fro…
Improved parallel WaveGAN vocoder with perceptually weighted spectrogram loss
Eunwoo Song, Ryuichi Yamamoto, Min-Jae Hwang +3
This paper proposes a spectral-domain perceptual weighting technique for Parallel WaveGAN-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems. The recently proposed Parallel WaveGAN vocoder success…
TTS-by-TTS: TTS-driven Data Augmentation for Fast and High-Quality Speech Synthesis
Min-Jae Hwang, Ryuichi Yamamoto, Eunwoo Song +1
In this paper, we propose a text-to-speech (TTS)-driven data augmentation method for improving the quality of a non-autoregressive (AR) TTS system. Recently proposed non-AR models,…
Parallel waveform synthesis based on generative adversarial networks with voicing-aware conditional discriminators
Ryuichi Yamamoto, Eunwoo Song, Min-Jae Hwang +1
This paper proposes voicing-aware conditional discriminators for Parallel WaveGAN-based waveform synthesis systems. In this framework, we adopt a projection-based conditioning meth…
Neural text-to-speech with a modeling-by-generation excitation vocoder
Eunwoo Song, Min-Jae Hwang, Ryuichi Yamamoto +3
This paper proposes a modeling-by-generation (MbG) excitation vocoder for a neural text-to-speech (TTS) system. Recently proposed neural excitation vocoders can realize qualified w…