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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2022
Applicant:
Tencent America Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/10 (2013.01); G10L 13/00 (2006.01); G10L 13/047 (2013.01); G10L 13/06 (2013.01); G10L 15/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/10 (2013.01); G10L 13/047 (2013.01); G10L 13/06 (2013.01); G10L 2013/105 (2013.01);
Abstract
An unsupervised text to speech system utilizing a lexicon to map input text to the phoneme sequence, which is expanded to the frame-level forced alignment with a speaker-dependent duration model. An alignment mapping module that converts the forced alignment to the unsupervised alignment (UA). Afterword, a Conditional Disentangled Sequential Variational Auto-encoder (C-DSVAE), serving as the self-supervised TTS AM, takes the predicted UA and a target speaker embedding to generate the mel spectrogram, which is ultimately converted to waveform with a neural vocoder.