CMU Multilingual NLP 2020 - Text to Speech

Learn about text-to-speech systems, focusing on efficient development for low-resource languages and challenges in multilingual contexts. Explore topics including text analysis, pronunciation, prosody, expressiveness, waveform generation, corpus-based synthesis, voice building tools, data acquisition, cross-lingual models, and evaluation methods. Gain insights from Alan Black's lecture for CMU's Multilingual Natural Language Processing course, covering the entire TTS pipeline and concluding with a summary and discussion on current trends in speech synthesis technology.

Intro
Text To Speech
Text Analysis
Non-standard words
Pronunciations
Prosody
Expressiveness
Waveform Generation
Corpus Based Synthesis
Voice building tools
Finding Data
Cross Lingual Models
Evaluation
TTS Summary
TTS Discussion Point