We present ParrotTTS, a modularized text-to-speech synthesis model leveraging disentangled self-supervised speech representations. It can train a multi-speaker variant effectively using transcripts from a single speaker. ParrotTTS adapts to a new language in low resource setup and generalizes to languages not seen while training the self-supervised backbone. Moreover, without training on bilingual or parallel examples, ParrotTTS can transfer voices across languages while preserving the speaker specific characteristics, e.g., synthesizing fluent Hindi speech using a French speaker's voice and accent. We present extensive results in monolingual and multi-lingual scenarios. ParrotTTS outperforms state-of-the-art multi-lingual TTS models using only a fraction of paired data as latter.
@article{arxiv.2303.01261,
title = {ParrotTTS: Text-to-Speech synthesis by exploiting self-supervised representations},
author = {Neil Shah and Saiteja Kosgi and Vishal Tambrahalli and Neha Sahipjohn and Niranjan Pedanekar and Vineet Gandhi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.01261},
year = {2023}
}