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Modeling of Rakugo Speech and Its Limitations: Toward Speech Synthesis That Entertains Audiences
Shuhei Kato, Yusuke Yasuda, Xin Wang +3
We have been investigating rakugo speech synthesis as a challenging example of speech synthesis that entertains audiences. Rakugo is a traditional Japanese form of verbal entertain…
Effect of choice of probability distribution, randomness, and search methods for alignment modeling in sequence-to-sequence text-to-speech synthesis using hard alignment
Yusuke Yasuda, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi
Sequence-to-sequence text-to-speech (TTS) is dominated by soft-attention-based methods. Recently, hard-attention-based methods have been proposed to prevent fatal alignment errors,…
Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker Text-To-Speech with State-of-the-art Neural Speaker Embeddings
Erica Cooper, Cheng-I Lai, Yusuke Yasuda +4
While speaker adaptation for end-to-end speech synthesis using speaker embeddings can produce good speaker similarity for speakers seen during training, there remains a gap for zer…
Initial investigation of an encoder-decoder end-to-end TTS framework using marginalization of monotonic hard latent alignments
Yusuke Yasuda, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi
End-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is a method that directly converts input text to output acoustic features using a single network. A recent advance of end-to-end TTS is du…