Chie Kamada

Polyphone Disambiguation and Accent Prediction Using Pre-Trained Language Models in Japanese TTS Front-End

Although end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) models can generate natural speech, challenges still remain when it comes to estimating sentence-level phonetic and prosodic information from raw text in Japanese TTS systems. In this paper, we propose a method for polyphone disambiguation (PD) and accent pre…