Papers by Jenny Tyler Wang
Development of Community-Oriented Text-to-Speech Models for Māori ‘Avaiki Nui (Cook Islands Māori) (2024.lrec-main)
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Jesin James, Rolando Coto-Solano, Sally Akevai Nicholas, Joshua Zhu, Bovey Yu, Fuki Babasaki, Jenny Tyler Wang, Nicholas Derby
| Challenge: | Text-to-speech synthesis is used to transform text into a synthesized voice for a specific language. |
| Approach: | They describe the development of a text-to-speech system for Mori ‘Avaiki Nui (Cook Islands Mi) they used two approaches to train the system, the HMM-system MaryTTS and the deep learning system FastSpeech2 . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system is based on the HMM-system MaryTTS and the deep learning system FastSpeech2 . the ground truth voice had the highest quality, but the fastspeech 2 voice had a significantly higher quality than the MaryTTs synthesized recordings. |