2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Paper IDSPE-16.3
Paper Title A CHAPTER-WISE UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH IN CHINESE NOVELS
Authors Junjie Pan, Lin Wu, Xiang Yin, Pengfei Wu, Chenchang Xu, Zejun Ma, Bytedance, China
SessionSPE-16: Speech Synthesis 4: Front-end
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Wednesday, 09 June, 13:00 - 13:45
Presentation Time:Wednesday, 09 June, 13:00 - 13:45
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Topic Speech Processing: [SPE-SYNT] Speech Synthesis and Generation
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Abstract In TTS-based audiobook production, multi-role dubbing and emotional expressions can significantly improve the naturalness of audiobooks. However, it requires manual annotation of original novels with explicit speaker and emotion tags in sentence level, which is extremely time-consuming and costly. In this paper, we proposes a chapter-wise understanding system for Chinese novels, to predict speaker and emotion tags automatically based on the chapter-level context. Compared with baselines of each component, our models obtain higher performance. Audiobooks produced by our proposed system along with a multi-speaker emotional TTS system, are proved to achieve comparable quality score to audiobooks made by individual producers. Demos are demonstrated in https://jeffpan.net/icassp/2021/main.html.