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fuzzer371 | 1 month ago

Haven't we had TTS for like 20+ years? Why does AI need to be shoved into it all of a sudden. Total waste of electricity.

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rhdunn|1 month ago

Using neural nets (machine learning) to train TTS voices has been around a long time.

[1] (2016 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03499) WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio

[2] (2017 https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10433) Parallel WaveNet: Fast High-Fidelity Speech Synthesis

[3] (2021 https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07889) UnivNet: A Neural Vocoder with Multi-Resolution Spectrogram Discriminators for High-Fidelity Waveform Generation

[4] (2022 https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14941) Neural Vocoder is All You Need for Speech Super-resolution