Fast Bilingual Grapheme-To-Phoneme Conversion

Hwa-Yeon Kim, Jong-Hwan Kim, Jae-Min Kim


Abstract
Autoregressive transformer (ART)-based grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) models have been proposed for bi/multilingual text-to-speech systems. Although they have achieved great success, they suffer from high inference latency in real-time industrial applications, especially processing long sentence. In this paper, we propose a fast and high-performance bilingual G2P model. For fast and exact decoding, we used a non-autoregressive structured transformer-based architecture and data augmentation for predicting output length. Our model achieved better performance than that of the previous autoregressive model and about 2700% faster inference speed.
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2022.naacl-industry.32
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2022.naacl-industry.32v1
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2022.naacl-industry.32v2
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Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Industry Track
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July
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2022
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Hybrid: Seattle, Washington + Online
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Anastassia Loukina, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Bonan Min
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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289–296
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-industry.32
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-industry.32
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Hwa-Yeon Kim, Jong-Hwan Kim, and Jae-Min Kim. 2022. Fast Bilingual Grapheme-To-Phoneme Conversion. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Industry Track, pages 289–296, Hybrid: Seattle, Washington + Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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