Model architectures to extrapolate emotional expressions in DNN-based text-to-speech

no code implementations • 20 Feb 2021 • Katsuki Inoue, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Nobukatsu Hojo, Yusuke Ijima

In this study, the meaning of "extrapolate emotional expressions" is to borrow emotional expressions from others, and the collection of emotional speech uttered by target speakers is unnecessary.

ESPnet-TTS: Unified, Reproducible, and Integratable Open Source End-to-End Text-to-Speech Toolkit

3 code implementations • 24 Oct 2019 • Tomoki Hayashi, Ryuichi Yamamoto, Katsuki Inoue, Takenori Yoshimura, Shinji Watanabe, Tomoki Toda, Kazuya Takeda, Yu Zhang, Xu Tan

Furthermore, the unified design enables the integration of ASR functions with TTS, e. g., ASR-based objective evaluation and semi-supervised learning with both ASR and TTS models.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1