Bailing-TTS: Chinese Dialectal Speech Synthesis Towards Human-like Spontaneous Representation
[Paper]
Xinhan Di, Zihao Chen, Yunming Liang, Junjie Zheng, Yihua Wang, Chaofan Ding
AI Lab, Giant Network
1. Abstract
Large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models have made significant progress recently. However, they still fall short in the generation of Chinese dialectal speech. To address this, we propose Bailing-TTS, a family of large-scale TTS models capable of generating high-quality Chinese dialectal speech. Bailing-TTS serves as a foundation model for Chinese dialectal speech generation. First, continual semi-supervised learning is proposed to facilitate the alignment of text tokens and speech tokens. Second, the Chinese dialectal representation learning is developed using a specific transformer architecture and multi-stage training processes. With the proposed design of novel network architecture and corresponding strategy, Bailing-TTS is able to generate Chinese dialectal speech from text effectively and efficiently. Experiments demonstrate that Bailing-TTS generates Chinese dialectal speech towards human-like spontaneous representation.
Contents
- Bailing-TTS overview
- Dialect MoE overview
- Chinese Dialect
- Mandarin Zero-shot In-context Learning
- Mandarin Speaker Fine-tune
2. Chinese Dialect
Reference Speaker Speech |
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Language | Text | Generated |
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Henan Dialect | 芝麻叶儿黄橛橛,有后娘就有后爹。 | |
Henan Dialect | 小老鼠儿,上灯台,偷油吃,下不来。 | |
Henan Dialect | 椿树椿树你姓王,你发粗来我长长,我长长来穿衣裳,你发粗来做架梁。 | |
Henan Dialect | 你真嘞以为我就是恁妈说嘞那样儿啊,我今天全靠着叶家、全靠着恁妈,我就是一个吃软饭嘞? | |
Henan Dialect | 俺老家是河南南阳嘞,那可是个好地儿,回头恁去俺那儿喽,我管给恁安排。我这个人嘞,性格比较活泼,有啥说啥,从来不拐弯抹角嘞。平时就好跟朋友们聚一块儿,喷喷空儿,吃吃零嘴儿。跟俺那一片儿,关系都可好了,平时街坊邻居有啥事儿,我也都会去帮帮忙儿。 | |
Henan Dialect | 我一直觉得,只要肯下劲儿,就没有啥事儿是干不成嘞。这就是我,一个可普通但是也可热情嘞人。希望大家多关照了,咱一起儿开开心心嘞!谢谢大家! |
3. Mandarin Zero-shot In-context Learning
Language | Prompt | Generated-A | Generated-B |
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Mandarin | 呃,这天气真是太热了,真是一点也不想动。 |
我突然想起一个冷笑话,呵呵呵,你想不想听? |
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Mandarin | 嘶呃,关于这个问题我们还得好好思考思考,并不是那么简单的。 |
这个问题,嗯嘶,从另一个角度看,是不是对我们来说也是一件好事? |
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Mandarin | 喽,明天又是周末啦,一起去看个电影吧。 |
啊,真可惜,差一点就是第一了呢。 |
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Mandarin | 嗯,爸爸说要好好吃饭才能长高高,所以我要吃多多的饭长高高。 |
呃,小孩子是不能玩火的,玩火容易受伤。 |
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Mandarin | 嗯,回想起当年,这里还是个小村庄。 |
说起我们以前的事,啊,那真是三天三夜都说不完。 |
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Mandarin | 呃,这个事已经过去那么久了,就不要再说了。 |
嘶,我才意识到我刚犯了个错。 |
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Mandarin | 嗯,虽然天气很热,但是我还是坚持每天跑步。 |
哦,你说的是这个啊,这是我去海边的时候捡到的。 |
4. Mandarin Speaker Fine-tune
Language | Text | Generated |
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Mandarin | 呵呵,你是我朋友里唯一一个喝汽水放完气再喝的。 | |
Mandarin | 让我算算,嗯,一共是六万五千五百三十六天,对吧? | |
Mandarin | 理事长的事情也好,市井游马的事情也好,呃……仔细想想也不难理解啦。 | |
Mandarin | 啊!我现在好困,你们每天这样玩儿,上班不困吗? | |
Mandarin | 呃你这个梦属于超现实主义,狂想派的。 | |
Mandarin | 嗯……在叛乱军灭亡之时,莱因哈特也会倒下的。 | |
Mandarin | 没啥讲究就好,我怕是走错了方向,呵呵。 | |
Mandarin | 呐,在这种公众场合还是低调点好。 |