Voice Filter: Few-shot text-to-speech speaker adaptation using voice conversion as a post-processing module. (arXiv:2202.08164v1 [eess.AS])

State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) systems require several hours of
recorded speech data to generate high-quality synthetic speech. When using
reduced amounts of training data, standard TTS models suffer from speech
quality and intelligibility degradations, making training low-resource TTS
systems problematic. In this paper, we propose a novel extremely low-resource
TTS method called Voice Filter that uses as little as one minute of speech from
a target speaker. It uses voice conversion (VC) as a post-processing module
appended to a pre-existing high-quality …

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