Google Inc.

Ying Xiao

Quoc V Le

Yonghui Wu

Ron J Weiss

Zhifeng Chen

Navdeep Jaitly

Ioannis Agiomyrgiannakis

Ryan Michael Rifkin

Samuel Bengio

Robert Andrew James Clark

Russell J Ryan

Yuxuan Wang

Zongheng Yang

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating speech from text. One of the systems includes one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to implement: a sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network configured to: receive a sequence of characters in a particular natural language, and process the sequence of characters to generate a spectrogram of a verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language; and a subsystem configured to: receive the sequence of characters in the particular natural language, and provide the sequence of characters as input to the sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network to obtain as output the spectrogram of the verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language.

End-to-end text-to-speech conversion

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Ying Xiao