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End-to-end speech synthesis based on WaveNet
QIU Zeyu, QU Dan, ZHANG Lianhai
Journal of Computer Applications    2019, 39 (5): 1325-1329.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2018102131
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Griffin-Lim algorithm is widely used in end-to-end speech synthesis with phase estimation, which always produces obviously artificial speech with low fidelity. Aiming at this problem, a system for end-to-end speech synthesis based on WaveNet network architecture was proposed. Based on Seq2Seq (Sequence-to-Sequence) structure, firstly the input text was converted into a one-hot vector, then, the attention mechanism was introduced to obtain a Mel spectrogram, finally WaveNet network was used to reconstruct phase information to generate time-domain waveform samples from the Mel spectrogram features. Aiming at English and Chinese, the proposed method achieves a Mean Opinion Score (MOS) of 3.31 on LJSpeech-1.0 corpus and 3.02 on THchs-30 corpus, which outperforms the end-to-end systems based on Griffin-Lim algorithm and parametric systems in terms of naturalness.
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