A Novel Chinese Dialect TTS Frontend with Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation. (arXiv:2206.04922v1 [cs.CL])

Chinese dialect text-to-speech(TTS) system usually can only be utilized by
native linguists, because the written form of Chinese dialects has different
characters, idioms, grammar and usage from Mandarin, and even the local speaker
cannot input a correct sentence. For Mandarin text inputs, Chinese dialect TTS
can only generate partly-meaningful speech with relatively poor prosody and
naturalness. To lower the bar of use and make it more practical in commercial,
we propose a novel Chinese dialect TTS frontend with a translation …

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