Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Turkic Languages Using Transliteration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15749v1
• Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 05:57:54 GMT
• Title: Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Turkic Languages Using Transliteration
• Authors: Rustem Yeshpanov, Saida Mussakhojayeva, Yerbolat Khassanov
• Abstract summary: This work aims to build a multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system for ten lower-resourced Turkic languages. We specifically target the zero-shot learning scenario, where a TTS model trained using the data of one language is applied to synthesise speech for other, unseen languages. An end-to-end TTS system based on the Tacotron 2 architecture was trained using only the available data of the Kazakh language.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This work aims to build a multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system for ten lower-resourced Turkic languages: Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Sakha, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, and Uzbek. We specifically target the zero-shot learning scenario, where a TTS model trained using the data of one language is applied to synthesise speech for other, unseen languages. An end-to-end TTS system based on the Tacotron 2 architecture was trained using only the available data of the Kazakh language. To generate speech for the other Turkic languages, we first mapped the letters of the Turkic alphabets onto the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), which were then converted to the Kazakh alphabet letters. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach, we evaluated the multilingual Turkic TTS model subjectively and obtained promising results. To enable replication of the experiments, we make our code and dataset publicly available in our GitHub repository.

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