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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
May. 08, 2018
Baidu Usa, Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sercan O. Arik, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Diamos, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Gibiansky, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Miller, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kainan Peng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wei Ping, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jonathan Raiman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yanqi Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);
Baidu USA LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are systems and methods for augmenting neural speech synthesis networks with low-dimensional trainable speaker embeddings in order to generate speech from different voices from a single model. As a starting point for multi-speaker experiments, improved single-speaker model embodiments, which may be referred to generally as Deep Voice 2 embodiments, were developed, as well as a post-processing neural vocoder for Tacotron (a neural character-to-spectrogram model). New techniques for multi-speaker speech synthesis were performed for both Deep Voice 2 and Tacotron embodiments on two multi-speaker TTS datasets—showing that neural text-to-speech systems can learn hundreds of unique voices from twenty-five minutes of audio per speaker.