An Attribute Interpolation Method in Speech Synthesis by Model Merging

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Main Authors: Murata, Masato, Miyazaki, Koichi, Koriyama, Tomoki
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author Murata, Masato
Miyazaki, Koichi
Koriyama, Tomoki
author_facet Murata, Masato
Miyazaki, Koichi
Koriyama, Tomoki
contents With the development of speech synthesis, recent research has focused on challenging tasks, such as speaker generation and emotion intensity control. Attribute interpolation is a common approach to these tasks. However, most previous methods for attribute interpolation require specific modules or training methods. We propose an attribute interpolation method in speech synthesis by model merging. Model merging is a method that creates new parameters by only averaging the parameters of base models. The merged model can generate an output with an intermediate feature of the base models. This method is easily applicable without specific modules or training methods, as it uses only existing trained base models. We merged two text-to-speech models to achieve attribute interpolation and evaluated its performance on speaker generation and emotion intensity control tasks. As a result, our proposed method achieved smooth attribute interpolation while keeping the linguistic content in both tasks.
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spellingShingle An Attribute Interpolation Method in Speech Synthesis by Model Merging
Murata, Masato
Miyazaki, Koichi
Koriyama, Tomoki
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
With the development of speech synthesis, recent research has focused on challenging tasks, such as speaker generation and emotion intensity control. Attribute interpolation is a common approach to these tasks. However, most previous methods for attribute interpolation require specific modules or training methods. We propose an attribute interpolation method in speech synthesis by model merging. Model merging is a method that creates new parameters by only averaging the parameters of base models. The merged model can generate an output with an intermediate feature of the base models. This method is easily applicable without specific modules or training methods, as it uses only existing trained base models. We merged two text-to-speech models to achieve attribute interpolation and evaluated its performance on speaker generation and emotion intensity control tasks. As a result, our proposed method achieved smooth attribute interpolation while keeping the linguistic content in both tasks.
title An Attribute Interpolation Method in Speech Synthesis by Model Merging
topic Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00766