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Exploring Transfer Learning for Low Resource Emotional TTS

2019-01-14Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 2019Code Available1· sign in to hype

Noé Tits, Kevin El Haddad, Thierry Dutoit

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During the last few years, spoken language technologies have known a big improvement thanks to Deep Learning. However Deep Learning-based algorithms require amounts of data that are often difficult and costly to gather. Particularly, modeling the variability in speech of different speakers, different styles or different emotions with few data remains challenging. In this paper, we investigate how to leverage fine-tuning on a pre-trained Deep Learning-based TTS model to synthesize speech with a small dataset of another speaker. Then we investigate the possibility to adapt this model to have emotional TTS by fine-tuning the neutral TTS model with a small emotional dataset.

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