Cross-lingual Knowledge Distillation via Flow-based Voice Conversion for Robust Polyglot Text-To-Speech

no code implementations • 15 Sep 2023 • Dariusz Piotrowski, Renard Korzeniowski, Alessio Falai, Sebastian Cygert, Kamil Pokora, Georgi Tinchev, Ziyao Zhang, Kayoko Yanagisawa

In the first two stages, we use a VC model to convert utterances in the target locale to the voice of the target speaker.

Knowledge Distillation Speech Synthesis +2

Unify and Conquer: How Phonetic Feature Representation Affects Polyglot Text-To-Speech (TTS)

no code implementations • 4 Jul 2022 • Ariadna Sanchez, Alessio Falai, Ziyao Zhang, Orazio Angelini, Kayoko Yanagisawa

In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive study comparing multilingual NTTS systems models trained with both representations.

Text to Speech

Mix and Match: An Empirical Study on Training Corpus Composition for Polyglot Text-To-Speech (TTS)

no code implementations • 4 Jul 2022 • Ziyao Zhang, Alessio Falai, Ariadna Sanchez, Orazio Angelini, Kayoko Yanagisawa

Training multilingual Neural Text-To-Speech (NTTS) models using only monolingual corpora has emerged as a popular way for building voice cloning based Polyglot NTTS systems.

Speech Synthesis Text to Speech +1