声明:工作以来主要从事TTS工作,平时看些文章做些笔记。文章中难免存在错误的地方,还望大家海涵。平时搜集一些资料,方便查阅学习:
TTS 论文列表 http://yqli.tech/page/tts_paper.html
TTS 开源数据 http://yqli.tech/page/data.html
如转载,请标明出处。
(本来想写完整后再发出,大家可以根据选取的文章先看个大概,等闲下来后再详细写。我接下来一个月可能碰到一些事情,更新不能保证每日一篇,望谅解)
此处的韵律跟前端韵律不同,前端的韵律是从语言学的角度来定义停顿时长,是表现目标,对于所有说话人都是一样。本文所讲的韵律是从声学特征学习的具体表现形式,其内容可包含情感,语速,语音质量等级等等信息,主要使合成的语音更加自然,富有情感,对于每位说话人都是不同。文章按照韵律调整的粒度分为两类:粗粒度和细粒度。粗粒度为句子级别的迁移调控,细粒度为phrase,word,phone的调控。接下来将讲解如下几篇文章:
1)Towards end-to-end prosody transfer for expressive speech synthesis with tacotron (2018)https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.09047.pdf2)Style tokens: Unsupervised style modeling, control and transfer in end-to-end speech synthesis (2018)https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.09017.pdf3)ROBUST AND FINE-GRAINED PROSODY CONTROL OF END-TO-END SPEECH SYNTHESIS (2019)https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.02122.pdf4)FINE-GRAINED ROBUST PROSODY TRANSFER FOR SINGLE-SPEAKER NEURAL TEXT-TO-SPEECH (2019)https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.02479.pdf5)FULLY-HIERARCHICAL FINE-GRAINED PROSODY MODELING FOR INTERPRETABLE SPEECH SYNTHESIS (2020)https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.03785.pdf6)Hierarchical Multi-Grained Generative Model for Expressive Speech Synthesis (2020)https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.08474.pdf7)MIXTURE DENSITY NETWORK FOR PHONE-LEVEL PROSODY MODELLING IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS (2021)https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.00851.pdf8)AdaSpeech: Adaptive Text to Speech for Custom Voice (2021)https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.00993.pdf
第一篇 Towards End-to-End Prosody Transfer for Expressive Speech Synthesis with Tacotron本文章是首次提出无监督学习来进行韵律的迁移,本文章的做法是使用reference encoder把参考的语音编码成一个vector,该vector就是句子级别的prosody embedding,其包含参考语音的韵律,语速,情感等等信息。第二篇 Style tokens: Unsupervised style modeling, control and transfer in end-to-end speech synthesis上一篇文章的prosody embedding包含了情感,语速等复杂信息,本文的style tokens可以对上边的prosody embedding进行解耦,使其每个token控制一种style(其实无法完全解耦,每个token还是存在多种信息)。第三篇 ROBUST AND FINE-GRAINED PROSODY CONTROL OF END-TO-END SPEECH SYNTHESIS以上两篇都是粗粒度的韵律迁移调控,本文是细粒度的韵律调控:帧级别和音素级别。本文使用的reference encoder是第一篇文章的结构,其韵律信息使用的可变长的韵律信息。第四篇 FINE-GRAINED ROBUST PROSODY TRANSFER FOR SINGLE-SPEAKER NEURAL TEXT-TO-SPEECH上篇文章缺点是对unseen speaker和单说话人的韵律进行迁移效果很差,因此本文提出了对参考音频进行单独的信息抽取,其中aggregation phase即信息的抽取。另外本文使用vae对韵律信息预测。第五篇 FULLY-HIERARCHICAL FINE-GRAINED PROSODY MODELING FOR INTERPRETABLE SPEECH SYNTHESIS提出了多级韵律架构,而且提出了condition VAE架构。第六篇 Hierarchical Multi-Grained Generative Model for Expressive Speech Synthesis第七篇 MIXTURE DENSITY NETWORK FOR PHONE-LEVEL PROSODY MODELLING IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS第八篇 AdaSpeech: Adaptive Text to Speech for Custom Voice