ToucanTTS: Advancing Text-to-Speech (TTS) Technology
Practical Solutions and Value
The Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart has introduced ToucanTTS, an advanced TTS toolbox that significantly advances text-to-speech technology. ToucanTTS supports speech synthesis in over 7,000 languages, making it the most multilingual TTS model available. This broad language support caters to various international audiences and facilitates multi-speaker voice synthesis.
One of the key practical solutions is the human-in-the-loop editing functionality, allowing users to customize synthesized speech. This feature is particularly useful for literary studies, poetry reading assignments, voice design, style cloning, and multilingual speech synthesis.
ToucanTTS is built on the FastSpeech 2 architecture, ensuring high-quality, natural-sounding speech synthesis. It also includes a self-contained aligner and incorporates articulatory representations of phonemes as input, improving the quality and usability of speech synthesis for low-resource languages.
Overall, ToucanTTS’s user-friendly design and wide language support make it highly beneficial for educators, researchers, and developers. Its open-source nature guarantees that it will be essential in advancing and democratizing speech synthesis technology.
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