One TTS Alignment To Rule Them All

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10447v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:45:48 GMT
• Title: One TTS Alignment To Rule Them All
• Authors: Rohan Badlani, Adrian {\L}ancucki, Kevin J. Shih, Rafael Valle, Wei Ping, Bryan Catanzaro
• Abstract summary: Speech-to-text alignment is a critical component of neural textto-speech (TTS) models. In this paper we leverage the alignment mechanism proposed in RAD-TTS as a generic alignment learning framework. The framework combines forward-sum algorithm, the Viterbi algorithm, and a simple and efficient static prior.
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• Abstract: Speech-to-text alignment is a critical component of neural textto-speech (TTS) models. Autoregressive TTS models typically use an attention mechanism to learn these alignments on-line. However, these alignments tend to be brittle and often fail to generalize to long utterances and out-of-domain text, leading to missing or repeating words. Most non-autoregressive endto-end TTS models rely on durations extracted from external sources. In this paper we leverage the alignment mechanism proposed in RAD-TTS as a generic alignment learning framework, easily applicable to a variety of neural TTS models. The framework combines forward-sum algorithm, the Viterbi algorithm, and a simple and efficient static prior. In our experiments, the alignment learning framework improves all tested TTS architectures, both autoregressive (Flowtron, Tacotron 2) and non-autoregressive (FastPitch, FastSpeech 2, RAD-TTS). Specifically, it improves alignment convergence speed of existing attention-based mechanisms, simplifies the training pipeline, and makes the models more robust to errors on long utterances. Most importantly, the framework improves the perceived speech synthesis quality, as judged by human evaluators.

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