Bailing-TTS: Chinese Dialectal Speech Synthesis Towards Human-like Spontaneous Representation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00284v1
• Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 04:57:31 GMT
• Title: Bailing-TTS: Chinese Dialectal Speech Synthesis Towards Human-like Spontaneous Representation
• Authors: Xinhan Di, Zihao Chen, Yunming Liang, Junjie Zheng, Yihua Wang, Chaofan Ding,
• Abstract summary: Bailing-TTS is a family of large-scale TTS models capable of generating high-quality Chinese dialectal speech. The Chinese dialectal representation learning is developed using a specific transformer architecture and multi-stage training processes. Experiments demonstrate that Bailing-TTS generates Chinese dialectal speech towards human-like spontaneous representation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models have made significant progress recently.However, they still fall short in the generation of Chinese dialectal speech. Toaddress this, we propose Bailing-TTS, a family of large-scale TTS models capable of generating high-quality Chinese dialectal speech. Bailing-TTS serves as a foundation model for Chinese dialectal speech generation. First, continual semi-supervised learning is proposed to facilitate the alignment of text tokens and speech tokens. Second, the Chinese dialectal representation learning is developed using a specific transformer architecture and multi-stage training processes. With the proposed design of novel network architecture and corresponding strategy, Bailing-TTS is able to generate Chinese dialectal speech from text effectively and efficiently. Experiments demonstrate that Bailing-TTS generates Chinese dialectal speech towards human-like spontaneous representation. Readers are encouraged to listen to demos at \url{https://c9412600.github.io/bltts_tech_report/index.html}.

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