VITS & YourTTS¶
VITS (Conditional Variational Autoencoder with Adversarial Learning for End-to-End Text-to-Speech ) is an End-to-End (encoder -> vocoder together) TTS model that takes advantage of SOTA DL techniques like GANs, VAE, Normalizing Flows. It does not require external alignment annotations and learns the text-to-audio alignment using MAS, as explained in the paper. The model architecture is a combination of GlowTTS encoder and HiFiGAN vocoder. It is a feed-forward model with x67.12 real-time factor on a GPU.
🐸 YourTTS is a multi-speaker and multi-lingual TTS model that can perform voice conversion and zero-shot voice cloning. It can also learn a new language or voice with a ~ 1 minute long audio clip. This is a big open gate for training TTS models in low-resources languages. 🐸 YourTTS uses VITS as the backbone architecture coupled with a speaker encoder model.
See also
Important resources & papers¶
🐸 YourTTS: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02418
Neural Spline Flows: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04032
Variational Autoencoder: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6114.pdf
Generative Adversarial Networks: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661
HiFiGAN: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05646
Normalizing Flows: https://blog.evjang.com/2018/01/nf1.html