StyleTTS: A Style-Based Generative Model for Natural and Diverse Text-to-Speech Synthesis. (arXiv:2205.15439v1 [eess.AS])

Text-to-Speech (TTS) has recently seen great progress in synthesizing
high-quality speech owing to the rapid development of parallel TTS systems, but
producing speech with naturalistic prosodic variations, speaking styles and
emotional tones remains challenging. Moreover, since duration and speech are
generated separately, parallel TTS models still have problems finding the best
monotonic alignments that are crucial for naturalistic speech synthesis. Here,
we propose StyleTTS, a style-based generative model for parallel TTS that can
synthesize diverse speech with natural prosody from …

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