A unified front-end framework for English text-to-speech synthesis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10666v3
• Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:59:04 GMT
• Title: A unified front-end framework for English text-to-speech synthesis
• Authors: Zelin Ying, Chen Li, Yu Dong, Qiuqiang Kong, Qiao Tian, Yuanyuan Huo, Yuxuan Wang,
• Abstract summary: Front-end is critical component of English text-to-speech systems. Front-end typically consists of a text normalization (TN) module, a prosody word prosody phrase (PWPP) module, and a grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) module. This paper proposes a unified front-end framework that captures the dependencies among the English TTS front-end modules.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The front-end is a critical component of English text-to-speech (TTS) systems, responsible for extracting linguistic features that are essential for a text-to-speech model to synthesize speech, such as prosodies and phonemes. The English TTS front-end typically consists of a text normalization (TN) module, a prosody word prosody phrase (PWPP) module, and a grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) module. However, current research on the English TTS front-end focuses solely on individual modules, neglecting the interdependence between them and resulting in sub-optimal performance for each module. Therefore, this paper proposes a unified front-end framework that captures the dependencies among the English TTS front-end modules. Extensive experiments have demonstrated that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in all modules.

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