
Rob Clark
Rob Clark received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2003. His primary interest is in producing engaging synthetic speech. Before joining Google Rob was at the University of Edinburgh for many years involved in both teaching and research relating to text-to-speech synthesis. Rob was one of the primary developers and maintainers of the open source Festival text-to-speech synthesis system.
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Training Text-To-Speech Systems From Synthetic Data: A Practical Approach For Accent Transfer Tasks
Lev Finkelstein
Norman Casagrande
Ye Jia
Alexey Petelin
Jonathan Shen
Yu Zhang
Yonghui Wu
Interspeech (2022)
LibriTTS: A Corpus Derived from LibriSpeech for Text-to-Speech
Ye Jia
Yonghui Wu
Yu Zhang
Interspeech (2019)
CHiVE: Varying Prosody in Speech Synthesis with a Linguistically Driven Dynamic Hierarchical Conditional Variational Network
Jakub Vit
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019), PMLR, pp. 3331-3340
Towards End-to-End Prosody Transfer for Expressive Speech Synthesis with Tacotron
Ying Xiao
Yuxuan Wang
Joel Shor
International Conference on Machine Learning (2018)