A Text-to-Speech Pipeline, Evaluation Methodology, and Initial Fine-Tuning Results for Child Speech Synthesis

Speech synthesis has come a long way as current text-to-speech (TTS) models can now generate natural human-sounding speech. However, most of the TTS research focuses on using adult speech data and there has been very limited work done on child speech synthesis. This study developed and validated a t...

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Main Authors: Rishabh Jain, Mariam Yahayah Yiwere, Dan Bigioi, Peter Corcoran, Horia Cucu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9764693/