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Emotion Controllable Speech Synthesis Using Emotion-unlabeled Dataset With The Assistance Of Cross-domain Speech Emotion Recognition
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- xiong cai
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- 18 June 2021 - 3:40am
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- Poster
- Document Year:
- 2021
- Presenters:
- xiong cai
- Paper Code:
- 1863
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Neural text-to-speech (TTS) approaches generally require a huge number of high quality speech data, which makes it difficult to obtain such a dataset with extra emotion labels. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for emotional TTS synthesis on a TTS dataset without emotion labels. Specifically, our proposed method consists of a cross-domain speech emotion recognition (SER) model and an emotional TTS model. Firstly, we train the cross-domain SER model on both SER and TTS datasets. Then, we use emotion labels on the TTS dataset predicted by the trained SER model to build an auxiliary SER task and jointly train it with the TTS model. Experimental results show that our proposed method can generate speech with the specified emotional expressiveness and nearly no hindering on the speech quality.