Style Tokens: Unsupervised Style Modeling, Control and Transfer in End-to-End Speech Synthesis

Yuxuan Wang, Daisy Stanton, Yu Zhang, R. J. Skerry-Ryan, Eric Battenberg, Joel Shor, Ying Xiao, Ye Jia, Fei Ren, Rif A. Saurous

Abstract: In this work, we propose “global style tokens” (GSTs), a bank of embeddings that are jointly trained within Tacotron, a state-of-the-art end-to-end speech synthesis system. The embeddings are train...