Audio-conditioned phonemic and prosodic annotation for building text-to-speech models from unlabeled speech data

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Main Authors: Shirahata, Yuma, Park, Byeongseon, Yamamoto, Ryuichi, Tachibana, Kentaro
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Published: 2024
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author Shirahata, Yuma
Park, Byeongseon
Yamamoto, Ryuichi
Tachibana, Kentaro
author_facet Shirahata, Yuma
Park, Byeongseon
Yamamoto, Ryuichi
Tachibana, Kentaro
contents This paper proposes an audio-conditioned phonemic and prosodic annotation model for building text-to-speech (TTS) datasets from unlabeled speech samples. For creating a TTS dataset that consists of label-speech paired data, the proposed annotation model leverages an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model to obtain phonemic and prosodic labels from unlabeled speech samples. By fine-tuning a large-scale pre-trained ASR model, we can construct the annotation model using a limited amount of label-speech paired data within an existing TTS dataset. To alleviate the shortage of label-speech paired data for training the annotation model, we generate pseudo label-speech paired data using text-only corpora and an auxiliary TTS model. This TTS model is also trained with the existing TTS dataset. Experimental results show that the TTS model trained with the dataset created by the proposed annotation method can synthesize speech as naturally as the one trained with a fully-labeled dataset.
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spellingShingle Audio-conditioned phonemic and prosodic annotation for building text-to-speech models from unlabeled speech data
Shirahata, Yuma
Park, Byeongseon
Yamamoto, Ryuichi
Tachibana, Kentaro
Audio and Speech Processing
This paper proposes an audio-conditioned phonemic and prosodic annotation model for building text-to-speech (TTS) datasets from unlabeled speech samples. For creating a TTS dataset that consists of label-speech paired data, the proposed annotation model leverages an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model to obtain phonemic and prosodic labels from unlabeled speech samples. By fine-tuning a large-scale pre-trained ASR model, we can construct the annotation model using a limited amount of label-speech paired data within an existing TTS dataset. To alleviate the shortage of label-speech paired data for training the annotation model, we generate pseudo label-speech paired data using text-only corpora and an auxiliary TTS model. This TTS model is also trained with the existing TTS dataset. Experimental results show that the TTS model trained with the dataset created by the proposed annotation method can synthesize speech as naturally as the one trained with a fully-labeled dataset.
title Audio-conditioned phonemic and prosodic annotation for building text-to-speech models from unlabeled speech data
topic Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08111