Rif A. Saurous

Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram Predictions

2017 · arXiv (Cornell University)

This paper describes Tacotron 2, a neural network architecture for speech synthesis directly from text. The system is composed of a recurrent sequence-to-sequence feature prediction network that maps character embeddings to mel-scale spectrograms, followed by …

Tacotron: Towards End-to-End Speech Synthesis

2017

A text-to-speech synthesis system typically consists of multiple stages, such as a text analysis frontend, an acoustic model and an audio synthesis module.Building these components often requires extensive domain expertise and may contain brittle design …

Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning Wavenet on MEL Spectrogram Predictions

2018

This paper describes Tacotron 2, a neural network architecture for speech synthesis directly from text. The system is composed of a recurrent sequence-to-sequence feature prediction network that maps character embeddings to mel-scale spectrograms, followed by …