Evaluating Text-to-Speech Synthesis from a Large Discrete Token-based Speech Language Model (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in generative language modeling applied to discrete speech tokens presented a new avenue for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. |
| Approach: | They propose to use generative language modeling to generate text-to-speech (TTS) outputs by a discrete token-based model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is rated higher in naturalness and context appropriateness in listening tests compared to a conventional TTS. |
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