Can we use Common Voice to train a Multi-Speaker TTS system?

Training of multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) systems relies on curated datasets based on high-quality recordings or audiobooks. Such datasets often lack speaker diversity and are expensive to collect. As an alternative, recent studies have leveraged the availability of large, crowdsourced automati...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2022-10
Main Authors: Ogun, Sewade, Colotte, Vincent, Vincent, Emmanuel
Format: Article
Language:English
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Automatic speech recognition
Datasets
Training
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Summary:Training of multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) systems relies on curated datasets based on high-quality recordings or audiobooks. Such datasets often lack speaker diversity and are expensive to collect. As an alternative, recent studies have leveraged the availability of large, crowdsourced automatic speech recognition (ASR) datasets. A major problem with such datasets is the presence of noisy and/or distorted samples, which degrade TTS quality. In this paper, we propose to automatically select high-quality training samples using a non-intrusive mean opinion score (MOS) estimator, WV-MOS. We show the viability of this approach for training a multi-speaker GlowTTS model on the Common Voice English dataset. Our approach improves the overall quality of generated utterances by 1.26 MOS point with respect to training on all the samples and by 0.35 MOS point with respect to training on the LibriTTS dataset. This opens the door to automatic TTS dataset curation for a wider range of languages.
ISSN:2331-8422