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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2020
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yu Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ron J. Weiss, New York, NY (US);
Byungha Chun, Tokyo, JP;
Yonghui Wu, Fremont, CA (US);
Zhifeng Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Russell John Wyatt Skerry-Ryan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ye Jia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Andrew M. Rosenberg, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Mt. Kisco, NY (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving an input text sequence to be synthesized into speech in a first language and obtaining a speaker embedding, the speaker embedding specifying specific voice characteristics of a target speaker for synthesizing the input text sequence into speech that clones a voice of the target speaker. The target speaker includes a native speaker of a second language different than the first language. The method also includes generating, using a text-to-speech (TTS) model, an output audio feature representation of the input text by processing the input text sequence and the speaker embedding. The output audio feature representation includes the voice characteristics of the target speaker specified by the speaker embedding.