Cross-lingual Multi-speaker Speech Synthesis with Limited Bilingual Training Data

Authors: Zexin Cai, Yaogen Yang, Ming Li

Abstract: Modeling voices for multiple speakers and multiple languages with one speech synthesis system has been a challenge for a long time, especially in low-resource cases. This paper presents two approaches to achieve cross-lingual multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) and code-switching synthesis under two scenarios: 1) cross-lingual synthesis with sufficient data, 2) cross-lingual synthesis with limited data per speaker. Accordingly, a novel TTS synthesis model and a non-autoregressive multi-speaker voice conversion model are proposed. The TTS model designed for sufficient-data cases uses shared phonemic representations associated with language tokens. As for the data-limited scenario, we adopt a framework cascading several speech modules to achieve our goal. In particular, we proposed a parallel non-autoregressive voice conversion module to address multi-speaker synthesis for data-insufficient cases. Both approaches use limited bilingual data and demonstrate impressive performance in cross-lingual synthesis, where we can generate fluent foreign speech, even code-switching speech, for monolingual speakers. Moreover, experimental results show that our proposed voice conversion module can well maintain the voice characteristics in data-limited cases.
Orignial Voices
DB1 LJS DB4-Mandarin DB4-English DB4-Code-switching VCTK-P232 VCTK-P268 SSB0011 SSB0407
Data-sufficient Scenario Data-insufficient Scenario
CLMS - DB4 CLMS - LJS CLMS - DB1 BLMS - LJS BLMS - DB1 VC - P232 VC - P268 VC - SSB0011 VC - SSB0407
English sentences
Their solution requires development of the human capacity for social interest.
His most significant scientific publications were studies of birds and animals.
The process by which the lens focuses on external objects is called accommodation.
The South Carolina educational radio network has won national broadcasting awards.
Private free schools were formed both in poor neighborhoods and in middle class communities.
They can also show how the shape and size of continents and oceans have changed over time.
They established royal commissions to recover illegally held church lands.
The enormous amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere cause this high pressure.
Origins or causes of spontaneous mutation are not yet completely clear.
It is one of the earliest agricultural villages yet discovered in Southwest Asia.
The hot fluid is circulated through a tube located in the lower tank of the radiator.
Several environmental factors also have an effect on average life expectancy.
Much of the ground beef consumed in the United States comes from dairy cows.
Philosophers of education often differ in their views on the nature of knowledge.
Unfortunately, others separate on the basis of accumulated hatred.
Code-switching sentences
用UC浏览器搜索 I believe I can fly
那个slide出不到照片
I love you 中文是什么意思
就是说back street boys的歌就是有几首流行的 as long as you love me 然后 drowning
然后在家就没有说特地去开 radio 这样来听
我那个 company culture 其实就是 everyone help each other
I frankly speaking 就是比较少运动这样
因为就是那边也是很冷所以我每天都是要穿 jacket 这样的东西
我回来就是在 library 那边就是 apply for banking and finance those kind of jobs
everyday 放学可以驾着那个 car 就跑去那个
most of the time 就是去玩一下
其实我很难判断 in my heart i think my chinese is better but people tell me that my english 是比较好
可是我父母不喜欢我这样 so i try to go home when 我有时间
我不想再 take 那种 business module 因为我 take 了有很不好的经验.
可是那个 sports science and management 很难进.
Mandarin sentences
建筑设计师莱伊恩受命设计了英国温泽市政府大厅
新加坡的一位知名人士认为上世纪最重要的发明是冷气机
地球上的人都会有国家的概念
布鲁诺很不满意老板的不公正待遇
森林慢慢将大气中的二氧化碳吸收,同时吐出新鲜氧气
有的呢是各种平台关联公司和劳务派遣公司
这也是现在不少网约平台常用的管理办法
很多时候部门与部门之间一个电话能解决的事情
六月二十七号中央气象台发布了今年首个高温预警
现在呢有很多朋友都喜欢打游戏
很多校长和老师的毕业致辞是或温情或哲理或幽默
很多流行的热词呢也是纷纷被高校校长们引用
家用电器设备和暖气设备一定要远离煤气管道
堪忧本来就是令人担忧的意思
这个时候有两个身影就向着火场逆行