Two-level speech prosody transfer

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PATENT NO 11514888
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16992410

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A method includes receiving an input text utterance to be synthesized into expressive speech having an intended prosody and a target voice and generating, using a first text-to-speech (TTS) model, an intermediate synthesized speech representation tor the input text utterance. The intermediate synthesized speech representation possesses the intended prosody. The method also includes providing the intermediate synthesized speech representation to a second TTS model that includes an encoder portion and a decoder portion. The encoder portion is configured to encode the intermediate synthesized speech representation into an utterance embedding that specifies the intended prosody. The decoder portion is configured to process the input text utterance and the utterance embedding to generate an output audio signal of expressive speech that has the intended prosody specified by the utterance embedding and speaker characteristics of the target voice.

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GOOGLE LLC1600 AMPHITHEATRE PKWY MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043

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Chan, Chun-An Mountain View, US 12 55
Chun, Byungha Tokyo, JP 22 373
Clark, Robert Andrew James Hertfordshire, GB 13 89
Finkelstein, Lev Mountain View, US 42 560
Jia, Ye Mountain View, US 16 21
Wan, Vincent London, GB 10 15
Zhang, Yu Mountain View, US 1629 7768

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