Towards Cross-speaker Reading Style Transfer on Audiobook Dataset. (arXiv:2208.05359v1 [cs.SD])

Cross-speaker style transfer aims to extract the speech style of the given
reference speech, which can be reproduced in the timbre of arbitrary target
speakers. Existing methods on this topic have explored utilizing
utterance-level style labels to perform style transfer via either global or
local scale style representations. However, audiobook datasets are typically
characterized by both the local prosody and global genre, and are rarely
accompanied by utterance-level style labels. Thus, properly transferring the
reading style across different speakers remains …

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