A unified front-end framework for English text-to-speech synthesis

arXiv:2305.10666v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The front-end is a critical component of English text-to-speech (TTS) systems, responsible for extracting linguistic features that are essential for a text-to-speech model to synthesize speech, such as prosodies and phonemes. The English TTS front-end typically consists of a text normalization (TN) module, a prosody word prosody phrase (PWPP) module, and a grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) module. However, current research on the English TTS front-end focuses solely on individual modules, neglecting the interdependence between them and resulting …

abstract arxiv cs.cl cs.sd eess.as english features framework front-end normalization responsible speech synthesis systems text text-to-speech tts type word