IndicSpeech: Text-to-Speech Corpus for Indian Languages

Nimisha Srivastava, Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay, Prajwal K R, C V Jawahar

Abstract
India is a country where several tens of languages are spoken by over a billion strong population. Text-to-speech systems for such languages will thus be extremely beneficial for wide-spread content creation and accessibility. Despite this, the current TTS systems for even the most popular Indian languages fall short of the contemporary state-of-the-art systems for English, Chinese, etc. We believe that one of the major reasons for this is the lack of large, publicly available text-to-speech corpora in these languages that are suitable for training neural text-to-speech systems. To mitigate this, we release a 24 hour text-to-speech corpus for 3 major Indian languages namely Hindi, Malayalam and Bengali. In this work, we also train a state-of-the-art TTS system for each of these languages and report their performances. The collected corpus, code, and trained models are made publicly available.
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2020.lrec-1.789
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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6417–6422
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.789
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Nimisha Srivastava, Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay, Prajwal K R, and C V Jawahar. 2020. IndicSpeech: Text-to-Speech Corpus for Indian Languages. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 6417–6422, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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