Microsoft · 2019 · parallel AR-free

FastSpeech

Throw away autoregressive decoding. Predict duration, then generate mel frames in parallel. Faster, more stable, slightly less magic. The clip is sample 1 from the paper demo, next to Merlin on the same page.

Known for

Making neural TTS fast enough to feel like a vocoder problem again.

Vendor / paper demo

LJSpeech · FastSpeech official demo, sample 1. Same sentence as Merlin and Tacotron 2 on that page.

I will quote an extract from the reverend gentleman's own journal.

Year / era
2019
License class
research
Cloning
No
Streaming
No
Emotion controls
No
Languages (tags)
en
Official
Source
Kokoro 82M · af_heart