Nowadays speech synthesis or text to speech (TTS), an ability of system to produce human
like natural sounding voice from the written text, is gaining popularity in the field of speech …

Speech synthesis, also known as text-to-speech (TTS), has attracted increasingly more
attention. Recent advances on speech synthesis are overwhelmingly contributed by deep …

Text to speech (TTS), or speech synthesis, which aims to synthesize intelligible and natural
speech given text, is a hot research topic in speech, language, and machine learning …

This paper proposes a hierarchical, fine-grained and interpretable latent variable model for
prosody based on the Tacotron 2 text-to-speech model. It achieves multi-resolution …

Style transfer TTS has shown impressive performance in recent years. However, style
control is often restricted to systems built on expressive speech recordings with discrete style …

Expressive synthetic speech is essential for many human-computer interaction and audio
broadcast scenarios, and thus synthesizing expressive speech has attracted much attention …

Emotion embedding space learned from references is a straight-forward approach for
emotion transfer in encoder-decoder structured emotional text to speech (TTS) systems …

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) seeks to convert the emotional state of an utterance while
preserving the linguistic content and speaker identity. In EVC, emotions are usually treated …

Emotional speech synthesis aims to synthesize human voices with various emotional effects.
The current studies are mostly focused on imitating an averaged style belonging to a specific …

This paper proposes an effective emotion control method for an end-to-end text-to-speech
(TTS) system. To flexibly control the distinct characteristic of a target emotion category, it is …