Paper ID | SPE-15.5 | ||
Paper Title | PERIODNET: A NON-AUTOREGRESSIVE WAVEFORM GENERATION MODEL WITH A STRUCTURE SEPARATING PERIODIC AND APERIODIC COMPONENTS | ||
Authors | Yukiya Hono, Shinji Takaki, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan | ||
Session | SPE-15: Speech Synthesis 3: Vocoder | ||
Location | Gather.Town | ||
Session Time: | Wednesday, 09 June, 13:00 - 13:45 | ||
Presentation Time: | Wednesday, 09 June, 13:00 - 13:45 | ||
Presentation | Poster | ||
Topic | Speech Processing: [SPE-SYNT] Speech Synthesis and Generation | ||
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Abstract | We propose PeriodNet, a non-autoregressive (non-AR) waveform generation model with a new model structure for modeling periodic and aperiodic components in speech waveforms. The non-AR waveform generation models can generate speech waveforms parallelly and can be used as a speech vocoder by conditioning an acoustic feature. Since a speech waveform contains periodic and aperiodic components, both components should be appropriately modeled to generate a high-quality speech waveform. However, it is difficult to decompose the components from a natural speech waveform in advance. To address this issue, we propose a parallel model and a series model structure separating periodic and aperiodic components. The features of our proposed models are that explicit periodic and aperiodic signals are taken as input, and external periodic/aperiodic decomposition is not needed in training. Experiments using a singing voice corpus show that our proposed structure improves the naturalness of the generated waveform. We also show that the speech waveforms with a pitch outside of the training data range can be generated with more naturalness. |