iEmoTTS: Toward Robust Cross-Speaker Emotion Transfer and Control for Speech Synthesis based on Disentanglement between Prosody and Timbre

Understand

The capability of generating speech with specific type of emotion is desired for many applications of human-computer interaction.

• Cross-speaker emotion transfer is a common approach to generating emotional speech when speech with emotion labels from target speakers is not available for model training.
• This paper presents a novel cross-speaker emotion transfer system, named iEmoTTS.
• The system is composed of an emotion encoder, a prosody predictor, and a timbre encoder.