Adriana Guevara-Rukoz
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Crowdsourcing Latin American Spanish for Low-Resource Text-to-Speech
Fei He
Shan Hui Cathy Chu
Supheakmungkol Sarin
Knot Pipatsrisawat
Alena Butryna
Proc. 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 11--16 May, Marseille, France, pp. 6504-6513
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In this paper we present a multidialectal corpus approach for building a text-to-speech voice for a new dialect in a language with existing resources, focusing on various South American dialects of Spanish. We first present public speech datasets for Argentinian, Chilean, Colombian, Peruvian, Puerto Rican and Venezuelan Spanish specifically constructed with text-to-speech applications in mind using crowd-sourcing. We then compare the monodialectal voices built with minimal data to a multidialectal model built by pooling all the resources from all dialects. Our results show that the multidialectal model outperforms the monodialectal baseline models. We also experiment with a ``zero-resource'' dialect scenario where we build a multidialectal voice for a dialect while holding out target dialect recordings from the training data.
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