Vendor / paper demo
Tacotron paper demo · Tacotron official demo, gan_or_vae_r2.wav. Same sentence as the Tacotron 2 clip.
Generative adversarial network or variational auto-encoder.
Google · 2017 · seq2seq
Tacotron
Characters in, spectrograms out, trained from scratch. Tacotron is the paper that made end-to-end neural TTS a research default. The clip is the authors’ out-of-domain demo; Tacotron 2 reads the same sentence.
Known for
Ending the era of hand-built TTS frontends.
- Approach
- AR seq2seq
- Year / era
- 2017
- License class
- research
- Cloning
- No
- Streaming
- No
- Emotion controls
- No
- Languages (tags)
- en
- Official
- Source