ComedicSpeech: Text To Speech For Stand-up Comedies in Low-Resource Scenarios

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12200v1
• Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 14:24:45 GMT
• Title: ComedicSpeech: Text To Speech For Stand-up Comedies in Low-Resource Scenarios
• Authors: Yuyue Wang, Huan Xiao, Yihan Wu, Ruihua Song
• Abstract summary: We develop ComedicSpeech, a TTS system tailored for the stand-up comedy synthesis in low-resource scenarios. We extract prosody representation by the prosody encoder and condition it to the TTS model in a flexible way. Experiments show that ComedicSpeech achieves better expressiveness than baselines with only ten-minute training data for each comedian.
• Score: 5.06044403956839
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Text to Speech (TTS) models can generate natural and high-quality speech, but it is not expressive enough when synthesizing speech with dramatic expressiveness, such as stand-up comedies. Considering comedians have diverse personal speech styles, including personal prosody, rhythm, and fillers, it requires real-world datasets and strong speech style modeling capabilities, which brings challenges. In this paper, we construct a new dataset and develop ComedicSpeech, a TTS system tailored for the stand-up comedy synthesis in low-resource scenarios. First, we extract prosody representation by the prosody encoder and condition it to the TTS model in a flexible way. Second, we enhance the personal rhythm modeling by a conditional duration predictor. Third, we model the personal fillers by introducing comedian-related special tokens. Experiments show that ComedicSpeech achieves better expressiveness than baselines with only ten-minute training data for each comedian. The audio samples are available at https://xh621.github.io/stand-up-comedy-demo/

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