Incremental Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Prefix-to-Prefix Framework (2020.findings-emnlp)
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Mingbo Ma, Baigong Zheng, Kaibo Liu, Renjie Zheng, Hairong Liu, Kainan Peng, Kenneth Church, Liang Huang
| Challenge: | Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) has seen rapid progress in recent years, but still suffers from latencies. |
| Approach: | They propose a neural incremental TTS approach that synthesizes speech in an online fashion, playing a segment of audio while generating the next. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on English and Chinese TTS show that the proposed approach achieves similar speech naturalness compared to full sentence TTS, but with a constant (1-2 words) latency. |
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