Oliver Watts

Deep neural networks employing Multi-Task Learning and stacked bottleneck features for speech synthesis

2015

Deep neural networks (DNNs) use a cascade of hidden representations to enable the learning of complex mappings from input to output features. They are able to learn the complex mapping from text-based linguistic features to …

Merlin: An Open Source Neural Network Speech Synthesis System

2016

We introduce the Merlin speech synthesis toolkit for neural network-based speech synthesis. The system takes linguistic features as input, and employs neural networks to predict acoustic features, which are then passed to a vocoder to …