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ForwardTacotron
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ForwardTacotron

⏩ Generating speech in a single forward pass without any attention!

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⏩ Generating speech in a single forward pass without any attention!

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Observed mentions: 2020-03-10 12:18:42 UTC to 2020-03-10 23:03:12 UTC.

0122020-03-10 12:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-10 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsMar 10, 12:002020-03-10 13:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-10 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-10 14:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-10 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-10 15:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-10 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-10 16:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-10 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-10 17:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-10 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 10, 17:002020-03-10 18:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-10 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-10 19:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-10 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-10 20:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-10 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-10 21:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-10 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-10 22:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-10 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-10 23:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsMar 10, 23:00

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We've just open-sourced our first text-to-speech project! It's also our first public PyTorch project. Inspired by Microsoft's FastSpeech, we modified Tacotron (Fork from fatchord's WaveRNN) to generate speech in a single forward pass without using any attention. Hence, we call the model ⏩ ForwardTacotron. The model has several advantages: * Robustness: No repeats and failed attention modes for complex sentences * Speed: Generating a spectrogram takes about 0.04s on a RTX2080 * Controllability: You can control the speed of the speech synthesis ️* Efficiency: No usage of attention so memory size grows linearly with text size We also provide a Colab notebook to try out our pre-trained model trained 100k steps on LJSpeech and also some Samples. Check it out! * Github: https://github.com/as-ideas/ForwardTacotron * Samples: https://as-ideas.git
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