A Fully Time-domain Neural Model for Subband-based Speech Synthesizer

This paper introduces a deep neural network model for subband-based speech synthesizer. The model benefits from the short bandwidth of the subband signals to reduce the complexity of the time-domain speech generator. We employed the multi-level wavelet analysis/synthesis to decompose/reconstruct the...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Rabiee, Azam, Kim, Geonmin, Tae-Ho, Kim, Soo-Young, Lee
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 02.07.2019
Subjects
Artificial neural networks
Ground truth
Neural networks
Speech recognition
Synthesis
Time domain analysis
Wavelet analysis
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Summary:This paper introduces a deep neural network model for subband-based speech synthesizer. The model benefits from the short bandwidth of the subband signals to reduce the complexity of the time-domain speech generator. We employed the multi-level wavelet analysis/synthesis to decompose/reconstruct the signal into subbands in time domain. Inspired from the WaveNet, a convolutional neural network (CNN) model predicts subband speech signals fully in time domain. Due to the short bandwidth of the subbands, a simple network architecture is enough to train the simple patterns of the subbands accurately. In the ground truth experiments with teacher-forcing, the subband synthesizer outperforms the fullband model significantly in terms of both subjective and objective measures. In addition, by conditioning the model on the phoneme sequence using a pronunciation dictionary, we have achieved the fully time-domain neural model for subband-based text-to-speech (TTS) synthesizer, which is nearly end-to-end. The generated speech of the subband TTS shows comparable quality as the fullband one with a slighter network architecture for each subband.
ISSN:2331-8422