{"id":237,"date":"2022-09-28T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T12:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2024-02-01T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T11:43:13","slug":"what-is-neural-text-to-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/what-is-neural-text-to-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Neural Text to Speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"237\" class=\"elementor elementor-237\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-88726c3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"88726c3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0c152e3\" data-id=\"0c152e3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b07c7e6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b07c7e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What is Neural Text to Speech?<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-b46b32c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b46b32c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-8155361\" data-id=\"8155361\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8dd9549 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8dd9549\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>by <strong>Oliver Goodwin <\/strong>| September 28, 2022<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-90a0b07\" data-id=\"90a0b07\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67e0df1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"67e0df1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Reading Time: <span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 8<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\"><\/span><\/span> minutes<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dfb374e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dfb374e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-819b4ed\" data-id=\"819b4ed\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62d757e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"62d757e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neural-text-to-speech.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-825\" alt=\"What is Neural Text to Speech?\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neural-text-to-speech.webp 1500w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neural-text-to-speech-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neural-text-to-speech-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neural-text-to-speech-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neural-text-to-speech-350x233.webp 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ba17a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ba17a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you frequently use digital devices or the internet, chances are you have encountered <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/everything-you-should-know-about-text-to-speech\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Text-to-Speech (TTS) or Read Aloud technology<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at some point. Activities such as requesting that CAPTCHA challenges be read out loud, getting map directions while driving, listening to your favorite audiobook, etc., are enabled by TTS.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TTS is an assistive technology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to model natural language to produce audio formats of digital texts. The traditional TTS is a product of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Concatenative_synthesis\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">concatenative synthesis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014stringing pre-recorded voice samples together. This technique, however, sometimes creates listening fatigue owing to the presence or absence of speech parameters and sound attributes such as homonyms, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/prosody-phonetics-1691693\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prosody<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, speech flow, loudness, the intensity of overtones, etc., that human voices incorporate.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These imperfections are what neural text-to-speech aims to smoothen. Neural TTS uses a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/what-is\/neural-network\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">neural network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014an AI method modeled after the human brain\u2014to convert phonemes into a wave of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pnsn.org\/spectrograms\/what-is-a-spectrogram\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spectrograms<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Just like the brain does not require rules to obtain and apply knowledge, neural TTS is the product of training a TTS model using machine learning (ML) to learn from voice input without hard-coded rules.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The output is a speech development that sounds more realistic and lifelike. Neural TTS allows you to listen to and interact with a computer while giving the impression that you are talking to an actual human.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04dd324 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"04dd324\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tts.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-827\" alt=\"How neural TTS works\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tts.webp 643w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tts-300x188.webp 300w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tts-350x219.webp 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ca0b12 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1ca0b12\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What Are the Characteristics of Neural Text-to-Speech?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c60922 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0c60922\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The traditional TTS disintegrates prosody into multiple linguistic parts and sonic predictions that independent models control. Neural TTS, on the other hand, simultaneously predicts prosody and synthesises voice, and it performs these functions using two key components: a neural network and a neural vocoder<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c25ef3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8c25ef3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Neural Network<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ca72c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1ca72c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neutral-network-diagram.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1276\" alt=\"neutral network diagram\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neutral-network-diagram.webp 820w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neutral-network-diagram-300x152.webp 300w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neutral-network-diagram-768x389.webp 768w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neutral-network-diagram-350x177.webp 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67b49dc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"67b49dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A neural network is an AI method that trains computers to absorb and process information the way the human brain would. It is what forms the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/searchenterpriseai\/definition\/deep-learning-deep-neural-network\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deep learning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> aspect of ML, and just like the human brain, it is made up of interconnected neurons in a structured format. With this complex network of neurons, computers can learn from their mistakes through data reinforcement until they have attained perfection.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In neural TTS, the neural network transforms an arrangement of phonemes into spectrograms. These spectrograms are visual representations of sound frequencies at different energy levels. They make it easy to record prosody, loudness, signal strength, etc.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A neural network typically comprises three primary layers: the input, hidden, and output layers.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0f1bb9c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0f1bb9c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Input Layer<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92966df elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"92966df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is where the artificial neural network workflow begins. This layer contains the artificial input neurons into which the data is passed for processing. The unique attribute of this part of the neural network is the speciality of each artificial neuron. Each neuron plays a role different from the other in the received data, and collectively, they transfer the data to the hidden layers.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68efe3e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"68efe3e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Hidden Layers<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1fe2c5c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1fe2c5c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The intermediary layer is where all simulations of the human brain happen. The hidden layers are structured in two major ways: Random Assignment and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guru99.com\/backpropogation-neural-network.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Backpropagation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Random Assignment, data from the input layer is randomly split among the hidden neurons and trained. Backpropagation, on the other hand, means the backward propagation of errors. In this method, input data is fine-tuned through iteration between the hidden and output layers until the desired result is achieved.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-082722f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"082722f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Output Layer<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3791344 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3791344\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final layer from which results are perceived. Here the desired results are compared with processed data received from the hidden layers and, if they have not been achieved, are sent back to the hidden layers for further fine-tuning (backpropagation).<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29e6922 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"29e6922\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Neural Vocoder<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b91cbdc elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b91cbdc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neural-vocoder-1024x283.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1277\" alt=\"neural vocoder\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neural-vocoder-1024x283.webp 1024w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neural-vocoder-300x83.webp 300w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neural-vocoder-768x212.webp 768w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neural-vocoder-350x97.webp 350w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neural-vocoder.webp 1072w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce1aefa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ce1aefa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spectrograms are usually the results retrieved from the neural network&#8217;s output layer. But they are difficult to interpret by the human sense organs and must be converted to usable formats for proper utilisation. This is where the neural vocoder comes in.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A neural vocoder receives the spectrograms from the output layer and transforms them into <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/swphonetics.com\/praat\/tutorials\/understanding-waveforms\/speech-waveforms\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">speech waveforms<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The speech waveforms are continuous two-dimensional graphs representing the received sound&#8217;s time and intensity. This approach enables the vocoder to pick minute details in the processed sound to recognise all aspects of the human voice relating to written texts. After this last training phase, the final output is an ultra-realistic voice that is hardly distinguishable from an actual human voice.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dea91e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"dea91e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/text-to-speech-tts-phone-1024x538-1.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-828\" alt=\"What Models Does the Neural Text-to-Speech Use?\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/text-to-speech-tts-phone-1024x538-1.webp 1024w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/text-to-speech-tts-phone-1024x538-1-300x158.webp 300w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/text-to-speech-tts-phone-1024x538-1-768x404.webp 768w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/text-to-speech-tts-phone-1024x538-1-350x184.webp 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca5b63b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ca5b63b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What Models Does the Neural Text-to-Speech Use?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e56b2f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6e56b2f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All concepts require a medium to come to life. Just as the brain needs a body to function, neural TTS requires a body to become fully applicable. In this case, the body is a model.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike in traditional TTS, where human voice samples are strung together to devise pronunciations, the neural TTS creates human voice simulators that talk to you from your devices and sound seamlessly like humans. How is this possible? Neural network models.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The neural network speech models or deep neural network (DNN) models are hosts that take the human voice samples, clone them, and convert text to speech using the already cloned voice samples. If you listened to the output, you would hear the sample voice presenting the text passed in. But to make this voice output a success, at least three different models are needed: the acoustic model, the pitch model, and the duration model.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-241c9d0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"241c9d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Acoustic Model<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49fbf40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"49fbf40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This model establishes the connection between any given audio signal and the phonemes that compose speech. In this case, the audio signal is the recorded voice.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It essentially breaks down the sample voice into phonemes, which are then converted to spectrograms. The spectrograms are afterwards studied for certain properties: <\/span><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toppr.com\/guides\/physics\/sound\/timbre\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quality or timbre<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Finally, the timbre\u2014which distinguishes two or more audio signals with the same frequency\u2014is compared with the timbre of the phonemes that constitute speech.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An acoustic model is trained by receiving the audio recordings of the voice sample, getting the text transcriptions of words included in the recordings, and creating statistical figures of the sounds or phonemes that make up every word.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d32b84 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4d32b84\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Pitch Model<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-00aa0c0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"00aa0c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The quality of speech is only one of the things that must be learned and predicted to achieve a perfect simulation of the human voice. Another attribute of speech that must be factored in is its pitch; you can effectively learn this with a pitch model.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upon getting voice samples and studying the acoustic variance in tones, the pitch model predicts pitch outlines or curves during interference. After that, it generates controllable speech by applying the predicted curves.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This model, in essence, can exhibit the <a href=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/create-text-to-speech-with-emotion\/\">perceived emotional states<\/a> of the writer of a given text and other prosodic properties. It also understands emphatic contexts in embedded texts based on frequency outlines of previously analyzed voice samples.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a12dd7d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a12dd7d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Duration Model<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b79c382 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b79c382\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written texts transfer the nuances they possess to speech. Thus, the lengths of breath needed to pronounce &#8220;bin&#8221; and &#8220;been&#8221; differ despite the similarity in their pronunciations. To pronounce words as accurately as they come, neural TTS requires another unique model: the duration model.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The duration model predicts the length that each phoneme stays in a breath. It performs positional analysis on the different arrangements of speech\u2014phonemes, syllables, and words. The duration model makes up the prosodic model with the pitch model.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Together, all three models determine the sound you hear from your text to speech service or software application.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f87a75d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f87a75d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jonathan-velasquez-c1zn57gfdb0-unsplash.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-829\" alt=\"professional microphone\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jonathan-velasquez-c1zn57gfdb0-unsplash.webp 640w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jonathan-velasquez-c1zn57gfdb0-unsplash-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/synthesys.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jonathan-velasquez-c1zn57gfdb0-unsplash-350x234.webp 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8e709e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b8e709e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What Can Be Achieved With Neural Text-to-Speech?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d016db2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d016db2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neural TTS has as wide a range of applications as traditional TTS. However, the unique possibilities that can be achieved with neural TTS far transcend the capabilities of traditional TTS. Besides providing models for ultra-realistic, natural sounding voices, it offers more advantages, which are discussed below.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b738f9b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b738f9b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Enhanced Voice Flexibility and Scalability<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1b75f4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c1b75f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traditional TTS typically provides monotonous, robotic voices and is restricted to certain applications. For instance, you can only use a male voice sample in cases where a rigid male voice is required.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a neural TTS system, however, a software application can represent every version of the human voice and speaking styles, incorporating all nuances of emotion needed to convey relevant meanings. Business enterprises can leverage this to improve their customer care representation, close deals, and apply to audio files of written books or advertisements that appeal to wider, more variegated audiences.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a2b867 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4a2b867\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Data Security and Storage Optimisation<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-450d839 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"450d839\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the major drawbacks of traditional TTS is the volume of data that must be stored and protected. Each voice sample has its storage cache, and these caches can both be cumbersome and prone to destruction. This puts an entire organisation that may have built its marketing leverages on them at risk of a loss.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neural TTS removes this challenge easily through <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/builtin.com\/data-science\/transfer-learning\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">transfer learning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Transfer learning is a process in ML where a solution to one problem can be transposed onto other problems and can be used to solve them. This erases the need for multiple data storage requirements.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8400af1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8400af1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Cost-Effective and Low-Effort Speech Synthesis<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bddaa0f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bddaa0f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With transfer learning, it does not cost as much as it would in traditional speech synthesis to train data and achieve the desired results. The effort and cost needed to get large datasets and the time it takes to record tens of samples are significantly reduced. With neural TTS, you invest less and get better results. With only a few short recordings, you can conjure simulations that will produce more realistic voices than traditional TTs would have yielded.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1b84df elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c1b84df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Prosody Transfer<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ed96aa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2ed96aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.amazon.science\/47\/7c\/157f6ad04b35b767b9b5083a36e8\/copycat-many-to-many-fine-grained-prosody-transfer-for-neural-text-to-speech.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prosody transfer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a method in speech synthesis used to transpose the prosody from an audio source onto a speech being synthesized. If two neural voices exist in similar language and pitch ranges but with different styles and sounds, you can use prosody transfer to move the properties of one of these voices to the other if you require it.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ffde16 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5ffde16\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Language Independence<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb9dd73 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"eb9dd73\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another limitation that comes with the traditional TTS is language dependence. For instance, a voice sample taken in English would perform woefully if it were required to read a text written in Spanish. Why? The variance of pronunciation rules between both languages is wide.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In neural TTS training, the pronunciation possibilities that are taken into account are huge. And not only do they not require an original sample to be trained, but they also cover as many languages as possible with as few as twenty samples trained.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This advantage is especially useful to translators, owners of language academies, and for developing language learning apps.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6a354e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c6a354e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Wrapping Up<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7974bca elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7974bca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The technology behind neural text-to-speech is deep learning. As of 2021, the global <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reports.valuates.com\/market-reports\/QYRE-Auto-24M352\/deep-learning\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deep learning market <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was valued at $2.67 billion. This figure is projected to rise to $11.9 billion by 2028, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23.6% between 2022 and 2028. The global <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">text-to-speech software <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">market size<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, valued at $2.54 billion as of 2021, is projected to reach $5.79 billion in 2028, with a CAGR of 12.3% between 2022- 2028.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The statistics and projections indicate the apparent global adoption of TTS technology and neural TTS. Furthermore, the wide-ranging applications of this technology have established it as a certainty in the foreseeable future.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, while the only advantage traditional TTS might have over neural TTS is the service pricing, the advantage is defeated when the benefits are considered. Neural TTS not only offers all the benefits that traditional TTS offers but also solutions to the numerous limitations that accompany traditional TTS. 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