CHiVE: Varying Prosody in Speech Synthesis with a Linguistically Driven Dynamic Hierarchical Conditional Variational Network

Tom Kenter, Vincent Wan, Chun-an Chan, Rob Clark, Jakub Vit

Abstract: The prosodic aspects of speech signals produced by current text-to-speech systems are typically averaged over training material, and as such lack the variety and liveliness found in natural speech....