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Text-to-Speech Pipeline for Swiss German -- A comparison

arXiv 2305.19750 ↗First posted 31 May 2023cs.CL cs.SD eess.AScited by 1

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Abstract (arXiv)

In this work, we studied the synthesis of Swiss German speech using different Text-to-Speech (TTS) models. We evaluated the TTS models on three corpora, and we found, that VITS models performed best, hence, using them for further testing. We also introduce a new method to evaluate TTS models by letting the discriminator of a trained vocoder GAN model predict whether a given waveform is human or synthesized. In summary, our best model delivers speech synthesis for different Swiss German dialects with previously unachieved quality.

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  1. 2019Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformercited by 14,599
  2. 2017Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram Predictionscited by 804
  3. 2023Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizerscited by 752
  4. 2020FastSpeech 2: Fast and High-Quality End-to-End Text to Speechcited by 717
  5. 2021Conditional Variational Autoencoder with Adversarial Learning for End-to-End Text-to-Speechcited by 561
  6. 2018ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkitcited by 558
  7. 2019MelGAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Conditional Waveform Synthesiscited by 354
  8. 2019Parallel WaveGAN: A fast waveform generation model based on generative adversarial networks with multi-resolution spectrogramcited by 340
  9. 2021YourTTS: Towards Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker TTS and Zero-Shot Voice Conversion for everyonecited by 278
  10. 2021SwissDial: Parallel Multidialectal Corpus of Spoken Swiss Germancited by 26
  11. 2022SDS-200: A Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text Corpuscited by 22

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