# Efficiently Trained Low-Resource Mongolian Text-to-Speech System Based On FullConv-TTS

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01948 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.01948/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 11 of its 21 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 24 Oct 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 11 of 11)

- [WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.03499/) (2016)
- [HiFi-GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Efficient and High Fidelity Speech Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.05646/) (2020)
- [Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram Predictions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.05884/) (2017)
- [FastSpeech 2: Fast and High-Quality End-to-End Text to Speech](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.04558/) (2020)
- [Tacotron: Towards End-to-End Speech Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.10135/) (2017)
- [MelGAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Conditional Waveform Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.06711/) (2019)
- [Parallel WaveGAN: A fast waveform generation model based on generative adversarial networks with multi-resolution spectrogram](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.11480/) (2019)
- [WaveGlow: A Flow-based Generative Network for Speech Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.00002/) (2018)
- [Efficient Neural Audio Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.08435/) (2018)
- [High Fidelity Speech Synthesis with Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.11646/) (2019)
- [MnTTS: An Open-Source Mongolian Text-to-Speech Synthesis Dataset and Accompanied Baseline](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.10848/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have become the standard modeling technique for sequence data, and are used in a number of novel text-to-speech models. However, training a TTS model including RNN components has certain requirements for GPU performance and takes a long time. In contrast, studies have shown that CNN-based sequence synthesis technology can greatly reduce training time in text-to-speech models while ensuring a certain performance due to its high parallelism. We propose a new text-to-speech system based on deep convolutional neural networks that does not employ any RNN components (recurrent units). At the same time, we improve the generality and robustness of our model through a series of data augmentation methods such as Time Warping, Frequency Mask, and Time Mask. The final experimental results show that the TTS model using only the CNN component can reduce the training time compared to the classic TTS models such as Tacotron while ensuring the quality of the synthesized speech.