Fast, Compact, and High Quality LSTM-RNN Based Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesizers for Mobile Devices

no code implementations • 20 Jun 2016 • Heiga Zen, Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Niels Egberts, Fergus Henderson, Przemysław Szczepaniak

Acoustic models based on long short-term memory recurrent neural networks (LSTM-RNNs) were applied to statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) and showed significant improvements in naturalness and latency over those based on hidden Markov models (HMMs).

Quantization Speech Synthesis