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FeatherTTS: Robust and Efficient attention based Neural TTS

11/02/2020
by   Qiao Tian, et al.
Tencent
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Attention based neural TTS is elegant speech synthesis pipeline and has shown a powerful ability to generate natural speech. However, it is still not robust enough to meet the stability requirements for industrial products. Besides, it suffers from slow inference speed owning to the autoregressive generation process. In this work, we propose FeatherTTS, a robust and efficient attention-based neural TTS system. Firstly, we propose a novel Gaussian attention which utilizes interpretability of Gaussian attention and the strict monotonic property in TTS. By this method, we replace the commonly used stop token prediction architecture with attentive stop prediction. Secondly, we apply block sparsity on the autoregressive decoder to speed up speech synthesis. The experimental results show that our proposed FeatherTTS not only nearly eliminates the problem of word skipping, repeating in particularly hard texts and keep the naturalness of generated speech, but also speeds up acoustic feature generation by 3.5 times over Tacotron. Overall, the proposed FeatherTTS can be 35x faster than real-time on a single CPU.

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