Improving the quality of neural TTS using long-form content and multi-speaker multi-style modeling

no code implementations • 20 Dec 2022 • Tuomo Raitio, Javier Latorre, Andrea Davis, Tuuli Morrill, Ladan Golipour

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) can provide quality close to natural speech if an adequate amount of high-quality speech material is available for training.

Vocal effort modeling in neural TTS for improving the intelligibility of synthetic speech in noise

no code implementations • 20 Mar 2022 • Tuomo Raitio, Petko Petkov, Jiangchuan Li, Muhammed Shifas, Andrea Davis, Yannis Stylianou

We present a neural text-to-speech (TTS) method that models natural vocal effort variation to improve the intelligibility of synthetic speech in the presence of noise.