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Joao Felipe Santos

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Char2Wav: End-to-End Speech Synthesis
Jose Sotelo
Soroush Mehri
Kundan Kumar
Joao Felipe Santos
Kyle Kastner
Aaron Courville
Yoshua Bengio
We present Char2Wav, an end-to-end model for speech synthesis. Char2Wav has two components: a reader and a neural vocoder . The reader is an… (see more) encoder-decoder model with attention. The encoder is a bidirectional recurrent neural network that accepts text or phonemes as inputs, while the decoder is a recurrent neural network (RNN) with attention that produces vocoder acoustic features. Neural vocoder refers to a conditional extension of SampleRNN which generates raw waveform samples from intermediate representations. Unlike traditional models for speech synthesis, Char2Wav learns to produce audio directly from text
2017-02-17
International Conference on Learning Representations (published)
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