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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2017
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Byung Ha Chun, Epsom, GB;
Javier Gonzalvo, New York, NY (US);
Chun-an Chan, London, GB;
Ioannis Agiomyrgiannakis, London, GB;
Vincent Ping Leung Wan, Cambridge, GB;
Robert Andrew James Clark, Hertfordshire, GB;
Jakub Vit, Plzen Plzenský kraj, CZ;
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for text-to-speech synthesis using an autoencoder. In some implementations, data indicating a text for text-to-speech synthesis is obtained. Data indicating a linguistic unit of the text is provided as input to an encoder. The encoder is configured to output speech unit representations indicative of acoustic characteristics based on linguistic information. A speech unit representation that the encoder outputs is received. A speech unit is selected to represent the linguistic unit, the speech unit being selected from among a collection of speech units based on the speech unit representation output by the encoder. Audio data for a synthesized utterance of the text that includes the selected speech unit is provided.