Speech Synthesis and Processing

  1. Speech Synthesis (Text-to-Speech)
    1. Text Processing Frontend
      1. Text Normalization
        1. Tokenization
          1. Sentence Segmentation
            1. Abbreviation Expansion
              1. Number-to-Word Conversion
                1. Date and Time Normalization
                  1. Currency and Measurement Units
                    1. Punctuation Processing
                    2. Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
                      1. Rule-based G2P Systems
                        1. Dictionary-based Lookup
                          1. Statistical G2P Models
                            1. Neural G2P Networks
                              1. Multilingual G2P Challenges
                              2. Prosody Prediction
                                1. Phrase Break Prediction
                                  1. Stress Assignment
                                    1. Intonation Modeling
                                      1. Duration Prediction
                                        1. Emphasis and Focus
                                      2. Classical Synthesis Methods
                                        1. Concatenative Synthesis
                                          1. Unit Selection Principles
                                            1. Speech Database Design
                                              1. Unit Segmentation
                                                1. Target Cost Functions
                                                  1. Join Cost Functions
                                                    1. Search Algorithms
                                                    2. Diphone Synthesis
                                                      1. Diphone Database Construction
                                                        1. Coarticulation Modeling
                                                          1. Prosody Modification
                                                            1. Signal Smoothing Techniques
                                                            2. Parametric Synthesis
                                                              1. Formant Synthesis
                                                                1. LPC-based Synthesis
                                                                  1. PSOLA (Pitch Synchronous Overlap and Add)
                                                                    1. Statistical Parametric Synthesis
                                                                  2. Neural Speech Synthesis
                                                                    1. Sequence-to-Sequence Models
                                                                      1. Encoder-Decoder Architecture
                                                                        1. Attention Mechanisms
                                                                          1. Tacotron Architecture
                                                                            1. Tacotron 2 Improvements
                                                                            2. Vocoder Technologies
                                                                              1. Traditional Vocoders
                                                                                1. Phase Vocoder
                                                                                  1. Channel Vocoder
                                                                                    1. LPC Vocoder
                                                                                    2. Neural Vocoders
                                                                                      1. WaveNet Architecture
                                                                                        1. WaveRNN
                                                                                          1. Parallel WaveGAN
                                                                                            1. MelGAN
                                                                                              1. HiFi-GAN
                                                                                            2. End-to-End Models
                                                                                              1. FastSpeech Architecture
                                                                                                1. FastSpeech 2 Enhancements
                                                                                                  1. VITS (Variational Inference TTS)
                                                                                                    1. Glow-TTS
                                                                                                    2. Advanced Neural Techniques
                                                                                                      1. Diffusion Models for TTS
                                                                                                        1. Flow-based Models
                                                                                                          1. Adversarial Training
                                                                                                            1. Multi-speaker Modeling
                                                                                                          2. Voice Cloning and Adaptation
                                                                                                            1. Speaker Embedding Techniques
                                                                                                              1. Speaker Verification Models
                                                                                                                1. X-vector Embeddings
                                                                                                                  1. Neural Speaker Embeddings
                                                                                                                  2. Few-shot Voice Cloning
                                                                                                                    1. Meta-learning Approaches
                                                                                                                      1. Adaptation Techniques
                                                                                                                        1. Quality vs. Similarity Trade-offs
                                                                                                                        2. Zero-shot Voice Cloning
                                                                                                                          1. Speaker Encoder Networks
                                                                                                                            1. Cross-lingual Voice Cloning
                                                                                                                              1. Ethical Considerations
                                                                                                                            2. Expressive Speech Synthesis
                                                                                                                              1. Emotion Modeling
                                                                                                                                1. Emotional Speech Databases
                                                                                                                                  1. Emotion Classification
                                                                                                                                    1. Emotion Transfer Techniques
                                                                                                                                    2. Style Control
                                                                                                                                      1. Global Style Tokens
                                                                                                                                        1. Reference Audio Conditioning
                                                                                                                                          1. Controllable Synthesis Parameters
                                                                                                                                          2. Prosody Transfer
                                                                                                                                            1. Prosody Embedding
                                                                                                                                              1. Cross-speaker Prosody Transfer
                                                                                                                                                1. Fine-grained Prosody Control