Meta Learning Text-to-Speech Synthesis in over 7000 Languages
2406.06403

Authors

Sarina Meyer,Lyonel Behringer,Matt Coler,Emanuël A. P. Habets,Florian Lux

Abstract

In this work, we take on the challenging task of building a single text-to-speech synthesis system that is capable of generating speech in over 7000 languages, many of which lack sufficient data for traditional TTS development. By leveraging a novel integration of massively multilingual pretraining and meta learning to approximate language representations, our approach enables zero-shot speech synthesis in languages without any available data.

We validate our system's performance through objective measures and human evaluation across a diverse linguistic landscape. By releasing our code and models publicly, we aim to empower communities with limited linguistic resources and foster further innovation in the field of speech technology.

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