[P] I've implemented the first open-source realisation of Capacitron, an expressive VAE extension of the Tacotron 2 Text-To-Speech System and you can try it out

Hey everyone!

At the end of last year, I have submitted my Master's Thesis at TU Berlin, a report about the implementation and evaluation of an expressive Variational Autoencoder augmentation of the Tacotron Text-To-Speech System, called [Capacitron](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03402) from the Google team.

With some help from the awesome [Coqui TTS community](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS), we have managed to build the prosody encoder VAE module in a modular way, so that this prosodic augmentation can be also implemented with Tacotron 2 - this is a …

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