Chapter 4: Speech Synthesis (TTS)

This chapter covers Speech Synthesis (TTS). You will learn characteristics and latest TTS technologies.

Learning Objectives

By reading this chapter, you will be able to:

• ✅ Understand the basic concepts and pipeline of speech synthesis (TTS)
• ✅ Understand the architecture and operating principles of Tacotron/Tacotron 2
• ✅ Learn the mechanisms of non-autoregressive TTS using FastSpeech
• ✅ Understand the characteristics and appropriate use cases of major neural vocoders
• ✅ Grasp the latest TTS technologies and their applications
• ✅ Implement speech synthesis using Python libraries

4.1 TTS Fundamentals

What is Text-to-Speech (TTS)?

Text-to-Speech (TTS) is a technology that converts text into natural speech. Recent advances in deep learning have made it possible to generate speech that closely resembles human voice.

"TTS converts written words into spoken words through the integration of linguistic understanding and acoustic modeling."

TTS Pipeline

Pipeline Stages

Role of the Vocoder

A vocoder is a module that generates speech waveforms from Mel-spectrograms.

# Requirements:
# - Python 3.9+
# - matplotlib>=3.7.0
# - numpy>=1.24.0, <2.0.0

"""
Example: Avocoderis a module that generates speech waveforms from Mel

Purpose: Demonstrate data visualization techniques
Target: Beginner to Intermediate
Execution time: 2-5 seconds
Dependencies: None
"""

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import librosa
import librosa.display

# Load sample audio
y, sr = librosa.load(librosa.example('trumpet'), sr=22050, duration=3)

# Generate Mel-spectrogram
mel_spec = librosa.feature.melspectrogram(y=y, sr=sr, n_mels=80)
mel_spec_db = librosa.power_to_db(mel_spec, ref=np.max)

# Visualization
fig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 1, figsize=(14, 8))

# Waveform
axes[0].plot(np.linspace(0, len(y)/sr, len(y)), y)
axes[0].set_xlabel('Time (seconds)')
axes[0].set_ylabel('Amplitude')
axes[0].set_title('Speech Waveform', fontsize=14)
axes[0].grid(True, alpha=0.3)

# Mel-spectrogram
img = librosa.display.specshow(mel_spec_db, x_axis='time', y_axis='mel',
                               sr=sr, ax=axes[1], cmap='viridis')
axes[1].set_title('Mel-Spectrogram', fontsize=14)
fig.colorbar(img, ax=axes[1], format='%+2.0f dB')

plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

print("=== Role of Vocoder in TTS ===")
print(f"Input: Mel-spectrogram {mel_spec.shape}")
print(f"Output: Speech waveform {y.shape}")
print(f"Sampling rate: {sr} Hz")

Prosody and Naturalness

Prosody is a crucial element that determines the naturalness of speech:

• Pitch: Voice height, intonation
• Duration: Length of phonemes
• Energy: Intensity of sound
• Rhythm: Tempo of speech

Evaluation Metrics

1. MOS (Mean Opinion Score)

MOS is the average score of subjective human evaluation.

2. Naturalness

Evaluates the human-likeness of speech:

• Naturalness of prosody
• Smoothness of audio quality
• Richness of emotional expression

4.2 Tacotron & Tacotron 2

Tacotron Overview

Tacotron is an early end-to-end TTS model using a Seq2Seq architecture (published by Google in 2017).

Seq2Seq for TTS

Attention Mechanism

Attention determines which parts of the encoder output the decoder should focus on at each step.

$$ \text{Attention}(Q, K, V) = \text{softmax}\left(\frac{QK^T}{\sqrt{d_k}}\right)V $$

• $Q$: Query (decoder hidden state)
• $K$: Key (encoder hidden states)
• $V$: Value (encoder hidden states)

Tacotron 2 Architecture

Tacotron 2 improves upon Tacotron to generate higher quality speech.

Key Improvements

Mel-Spectrogram Prediction

Tacotron 2 predicts 80-dimensional Mel-spectrograms.

# Requirements:
# - Python 3.9+
# - matplotlib>=3.7.0
# - numpy>=1.24.0, <2.0.0
# - torch>=2.0.0, <2.3.0

"""
Example: Tacotron 2 predicts 80-dimensional Mel-spectrograms.

Purpose: Demonstrate data visualization techniques
Target: Advanced
Execution time: 2-5 seconds
Dependencies: None
"""

import torch
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Tacotron 2-style simple Mel prediction demo
# Note: Actual Tacotron 2 is much more complex

class SimpleTacotronDecoder(torch.nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, hidden_size=256, n_mels=80):
        super().__init__()
        self.prenet = torch.nn.Sequential(
            torch.nn.Linear(n_mels, 256),
            torch.nn.ReLU(),
            torch.nn.Dropout(0.5),
            torch.nn.Linear(256, 128)
        )
        self.lstm = torch.nn.LSTM(hidden_size + 128, hidden_size,
                                  num_layers=2, batch_first=True)
        self.projection = torch.nn.Linear(hidden_size, n_mels)

    def forward(self, encoder_outputs, prev_mel):
        # Prenet processing
        prenet_out = self.prenet(prev_mel)

        # LSTM decoder
        lstm_input = torch.cat([encoder_outputs, prenet_out], dim=-1)
        lstm_out, _ = self.lstm(lstm_input)

        # Mel-spectrogram prediction
        mel_pred = self.projection(lstm_out)

        return mel_pred

# Model instantiation
model = SimpleTacotronDecoder()
print("=== Tacotron 2-style Decoder ===")
print(model)

# Test with dummy data
batch_size, seq_len = 4, 10
encoder_out = torch.randn(batch_size, seq_len, 256)
prev_mel = torch.randn(batch_size, seq_len, 80)

# Prediction
mel_output = model(encoder_out, prev_mel)
print(f"\nInput encoder output: {encoder_out.shape}")
print(f"Input Mel: {prev_mel.shape}")
print(f"Output Mel: {mel_output.shape}")

Location-sensitive Attention

Tacotron 2 uses Location-sensitive Attention to achieve stable and monotonic alignment.

# Requirements:
# - Python 3.9+
# - torch>=2.0.0, <2.3.0

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F

class LocationSensitiveAttention(nn.Module):
    """Location-sensitive Attention for Tacotron 2"""

    def __init__(self, attention_dim=128, n_location_filters=32,
                 location_kernel_size=31):
        super().__init__()
        self.W_query = nn.Linear(256, attention_dim, bias=False)
        self.W_keys = nn.Linear(256, attention_dim, bias=False)
        self.W_location = nn.Linear(n_location_filters, attention_dim, bias=False)
        self.location_conv = nn.Conv1d(2, n_location_filters,
                                       kernel_size=location_kernel_size,
                                       padding=(location_kernel_size - 1) // 2,
                                       bias=False)
        self.v = nn.Linear(attention_dim, 1, bias=False)

    def forward(self, query, keys, attention_weights_cat):
        """
        Args:
            query: Decoder hidden state (B, 1, 256)
            keys: Encoder output (B, T, 256)
            attention_weights_cat: Previous attention weights (B, 2, T)
        """
        # Location features
        location_features = self.location_conv(attention_weights_cat)
        location_features = location_features.transpose(1, 2)

        # Attention computation
        query_proj = self.W_query(query)  # (B, 1, attention_dim)
        keys_proj = self.W_keys(keys)     # (B, T, attention_dim)
        location_proj = self.W_location(location_features)  # (B, T, attention_dim)

        # Energy computation
        energies = self.v(torch.tanh(query_proj + keys_proj + location_proj))
        energies = energies.squeeze(-1)  # (B, T)

        # Attention weights
        attention_weights = F.softmax(energies, dim=1)

        return attention_weights

# Test
attention = LocationSensitiveAttention()
query = torch.randn(4, 1, 256)
keys = torch.randn(4, 100, 256)
prev_attention = torch.randn(4, 2, 100)

weights = attention(query, keys, prev_attention)
print("=== Location-sensitive Attention ===")
print(f"Attention weights shape: {weights.shape}")
print(f"Sum of weights: {weights.sum(dim=1)}")  # Should be ~1.0

Tacotron 2 Implementation Example (PyTorch)

# Simplified version of Tacotron 2 encoder
class TacotronEncoder(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, num_chars=150, embedding_dim=512, hidden_size=256):
        super().__init__()
        self.embedding = nn.Embedding(num_chars, embedding_dim)

        # Convolution layers
        self.convolutions = nn.ModuleList([
            nn.Sequential(
                nn.Conv1d(embedding_dim if i == 0 else hidden_size,
                         hidden_size, kernel_size=5, padding=2),
                nn.BatchNorm1d(hidden_size),
                nn.ReLU(),
                nn.Dropout(0.5)
            ) for i in range(3)
        ])

        # Bi-directional LSTM
        self.lstm = nn.LSTM(hidden_size, hidden_size // 2,
                           num_layers=1, batch_first=True,
                           bidirectional=True)

    def forward(self, text_inputs):
        # Embedding
        x = self.embedding(text_inputs).transpose(1, 2)  # (B, C, T)

        # Convolutions
        for conv in self.convolutions:
            x = conv(x)

        # LSTM
        x = x.transpose(1, 2)  # (B, T, C)
        outputs, _ = self.lstm(x)

        return outputs

# Test
encoder = TacotronEncoder()
text_input = torch.randint(0, 150, (4, 50))  # Batch of 4, length 50
encoder_output = encoder(text_input)

print("=== Tacotron 2 Encoder ===")
print(f"Input text: {text_input.shape}")
print(f"Encoder output: {encoder_output.shape}")

4.3 FastSpeech

Motivation for Non-Autoregressive TTS

Problems with autoregressive models like Tacotron 2:

• Sequential generation is slow
• Unstable alignment
• Word repetition or skipping

FastSpeech is a non-autoregressive TTS that solves these problems.

FastSpeech Architecture

Duration Prediction

The core of FastSpeech is explicitly predicting the duration of each phoneme.

$$ d_i = \text{DurationPredictor}(h_i) $$

• $h_i$: Hidden state of phoneme $i$
• $d_i$: Duration of phoneme $i$ (number of frames)

# Requirements:
# - Python 3.9+
# - torch>=2.0.0, <2.3.0

import torch
import torch.nn as nn

class DurationPredictor(nn.Module):
    """Duration predictor for FastSpeech"""

    def __init__(self, hidden_size=256, filter_size=256,
                 kernel_size=3, dropout=0.5):
        super().__init__()

        self.layers = nn.ModuleList([
            nn.Sequential(
                nn.Conv1d(hidden_size, filter_size, kernel_size,
                         padding=(kernel_size - 1) // 2),
                nn.ReLU(),
                nn.LayerNorm(filter_size),
                nn.Dropout(dropout)
            ) for _ in range(2)
        ])

        self.linear = nn.Linear(filter_size, 1)

    def forward(self, encoder_output):
        """
        Args:
            encoder_output: (B, T, hidden_size)
        Returns:
            duration: (B, T) - Duration of each phoneme
        """
        x = encoder_output.transpose(1, 2)  # (B, C, T)

        for layer in self.layers:
            x = layer(x)

        x = x.transpose(1, 2)  # (B, T, C)
        duration = self.linear(x).squeeze(-1)  # (B, T)

        return duration

# Test
duration_predictor = DurationPredictor()
encoder_out = torch.randn(4, 50, 256)  # Batch=4, Seq=50
durations = duration_predictor(encoder_out)

print("=== Duration Predictor ===")
print(f"Input: {encoder_out.shape}")
print(f"Predicted durations: {durations.shape}")
print(f"Sample durations: {durations[0, :10]}")

Length Regulator

The Length Regulator expands phoneme-level hidden states to frame-level based on predicted durations.

class LengthRegulator(nn.Module):
    """Length Regulator for FastSpeech"""

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

    def forward(self, x, durations):
        """
        Args:
            x: Phoneme-level hidden states (B, T_phoneme, C)
            durations: Duration of each phoneme (B, T_phoneme)
        Returns:
            expanded: Frame-level hidden states (B, T_frame, C)
        """
        output = []
        for batch_idx in range(x.size(0)):
            expanded = []
            for phoneme_idx in range(x.size(1)):
                # Repeat each phoneme by its duration
                duration = int(durations[batch_idx, phoneme_idx].item())
                expanded.append(x[batch_idx, phoneme_idx].unsqueeze(0).expand(duration, -1))

            if expanded:
                output.append(torch.cat(expanded, dim=0))

        # Pad to same length
        max_len = max([seq.size(0) for seq in output])
        padded_output = []
        for seq in output:
            pad_len = max_len - seq.size(0)
            if pad_len > 0:
                padding = torch.zeros(pad_len, seq.size(1))
                seq = torch.cat([seq, padding], dim=0)
            padded_output.append(seq.unsqueeze(0))

        return torch.cat(padded_output, dim=0)

# Test
length_regulator = LengthRegulator()
phoneme_hidden = torch.randn(2, 10, 256)  # 2 samples, 10 phonemes
durations = torch.tensor([[3, 2, 4, 1, 5, 2, 3, 2, 1, 4],
                          [2, 3, 2, 5, 1, 4, 2, 3, 2, 1]], dtype=torch.float32)

frame_hidden = length_regulator(phoneme_hidden, durations)
print("=== Length Regulator ===")
print(f"Phoneme-level: {phoneme_hidden.shape}")
print(f"Predicted durations: {durations}")
print(f"Frame-level: {frame_hidden.shape}")

FastSpeech 2 Improvements

FastSpeech 2 predicts more prosodic information:

Speed vs Quality

Advantages of FastSpeech:

Important: FastSpeech achieves significant speedup and robustness improvement with only a slight quality reduction.

4.4 Neural Vocoders

Evolution of Vocoders

Neural vocoders generate high-quality speech waveforms from Mel-spectrograms.

1. WaveNet

WaveNet is an autoregressive generative model that produces very high-quality speech (DeepMind, 2016).

Dilated Causal Convolution

The core of WaveNet is Dilated Causal Convolution.

$$ y_t = f\left(\sum_{i=0}^{k-1} w_i \cdot x_{t-d \cdot i}\right) $$

• $d$: Dilation factor
• $k$: Kernel size

# Requirements:
# - Python 3.9+
# - torch>=2.0.0, <2.3.0

import torch
import torch.nn as nn

class DilatedCausalConv1d(nn.Module):
    """Dilated Causal Convolution for WaveNet"""

    def __init__(self, in_channels, out_channels, kernel_size, dilation):
        super().__init__()
        self.conv = nn.Conv1d(in_channels, out_channels, kernel_size,
                             padding=(kernel_size - 1) * dilation,
                             dilation=dilation)

    def forward(self, x):
        # Causal: don't use future information
        output = self.conv(x)
        # Remove right padding
        return output[:, :, :x.size(2)]

class WaveNetBlock(nn.Module):
    """WaveNet residual block"""

    def __init__(self, residual_channels, gate_channels, skip_channels,
                 kernel_size, dilation):
        super().__init__()

        self.dilated_conv = DilatedCausalConv1d(
            residual_channels, gate_channels, kernel_size, dilation
        )

        self.conv_1x1_skip = nn.Conv1d(gate_channels // 2, skip_channels, 1)
        self.conv_1x1_res = nn.Conv1d(gate_channels // 2, residual_channels, 1)

    def forward(self, x):
        # Dilated convolution
        h = self.dilated_conv(x)

        # Gated activation
        tanh_out, sigmoid_out = h.chunk(2, dim=1)
        h = torch.tanh(tanh_out) * torch.sigmoid(sigmoid_out)

        # Skip connection
        skip = self.conv_1x1_skip(h)

        # Residual connection
        residual = self.conv_1x1_res(h)
        return (x + residual) * 0.707, skip  # sqrt(0.5) for scaling

# Test
block = WaveNetBlock(residual_channels=64, gate_channels=128,
                     skip_channels=64, kernel_size=3, dilation=2)
x = torch.randn(4, 64, 1000)  # (B, C, T)
residual, skip = block(x)

print("=== WaveNet Block ===")
print(f"Input: {x.shape}")
print(f"Residual output: {residual.shape}")
print(f"Skip output: {skip.shape}")

2. WaveGlow

WaveGlow is a flow-based generative model capable of parallel generation (NVIDIA, 2018).

Features

• Real-time generation: Faster than WaveNet
• Parallelizable: Generate all samples at once
• Invertible transformation: Bidirectional conversion between audio and latent variables

3. HiFi-GAN

HiFi-GAN (High Fidelity GAN) is a fast, high-quality GAN-based vocoder (2020).

Architecture

# Requirements:
# - Python 3.9+
# - torch>=2.0.0, <2.3.0

import torch
import torch.nn as nn

class HiFiGANGenerator(nn.Module):
    """HiFi-GAN Generator (simplified version)"""

    def __init__(self, mel_channels=80, upsample_rates=[8, 8, 2, 2]):
        super().__init__()

        self.num_upsamples = len(upsample_rates)

        # Initial Conv
        self.conv_pre = nn.Conv1d(mel_channels, 512, 7, padding=3)

        # Upsampling layers
        self.ups = nn.ModuleList()
        for i, u in enumerate(upsample_rates):
            self.ups.append(nn.ConvTranspose1d(
                512 // (2 ** i),
                512 // (2 ** (i + 1)),
                u * 2,
                stride=u,
                padding=u // 2
            ))

        # Final Conv
        self.conv_post = nn.Conv1d(512 // (2 ** len(upsample_rates)),
                                   1, 7, padding=3)

    def forward(self, mel):
        """
        Args:
            mel: Mel-spectrogram (B, mel_channels, T)
        Returns:
            audio: Speech waveform (B, 1, T * prod(upsample_rates))
        """
        x = self.conv_pre(mel)

        for i in range(self.num_upsamples):
            x = torch.nn.functional.leaky_relu(x, 0.1)
            x = self.ups[i](x)

        x = torch.nn.functional.leaky_relu(x, 0.1)
        x = self.conv_post(x)
        x = torch.tanh(x)

        return x

# Test
generator = HiFiGANGenerator()
mel_input = torch.randn(2, 80, 100)  # (B, mel_channels, T)
audio_output = generator(mel_input)

print("=== HiFi-GAN Generator ===")
print(f"Input Mel: {mel_input.shape}")
print(f"Output audio: {audio_output.shape}")
print(f"Upsampling rate: {audio_output.size(2) / mel_input.size(2):.0f}x")

Vocoder Comparison

Recommendation: Currently, HiFi-GAN offers the best balance of speed and quality and is widely used.

4.5 Latest TTS Technologies

1. VITS (End-to-End TTS)

VITS (Variational Inference with adversarial learning for end-to-end Text-to-Speech) is an end-to-end model that integrates the acoustic model and vocoder (2021).

VITS Features

• Integrated architecture: Acoustic model + Vocoder
• VAE + GAN: Combination of Variational Autoencoder and adversarial learning
• Fast & high quality: Real-time generation capability
• Diversity: Generate diverse speech from the same text

2. Voice Cloning

Voice Cloning is a technology that reproduces a specific speaker's voice from a small amount of audio samples.

Approaches

3. Multi-speaker TTS

Multi-speaker TTS generates multiple speakers' voices with a single model.

Speaker Embedding

Convert speaker ID into an embedding vector and condition the model on it.

$$ e_{\text{speaker}} = \text{Embedding}(\text{speaker\_id}) $$

$$ h = f(x, e_{\text{speaker}}) $$

4. Japanese TTS Systems

Features of Japanese TTS systems:

Japanese-specific Challenges

• Accent: Reproducing pitch accent
• Intonation: Sentence-final rising and falling patterns
• Special mora: Handling of geminate consonants and long vowels
• Kanji reading: Context-dependent reading disambiguation

Major Japanese TTS Libraries

Implementation Example: gTTS (Google Text-to-Speech)

from gtts import gTTS
import os
from IPython.display import Audio

# Text
text_en = "Hello, this is a demonstration of text-to-speech synthesis."
text_ja = "Hello, this is a demonstration of speech synthesis."

# English TTS
tts_en = gTTS(text=text_en, lang='en', slow=False)
tts_en.save("output_en.mp3")

# Japanese TTS
tts_ja = gTTS(text=text_ja, lang='ja', slow=False)
tts_ja.save("output_ja.mp3")

print("=== gTTS (Google Text-to-Speech) ===")
print("English audio generated: output_en.mp3")
print("Japanese audio generated: output_ja.mp3")

# Audio playback (Jupyter environment)
# display(Audio("output_en.mp3"))
# display(Audio("output_ja.mp3"))

4.6 Chapter Summary

What We Learned

1. TTS Fundamentals

   • Text-to-Speech pipeline: Text analysis → Acoustic model → Vocoder
   • Importance of prosody: Pitch, duration, energy
   • Evaluation metrics: MOS, naturalness

2. Tacotron & Tacotron 2

   • End-to-end TTS using Seq2Seq architecture
   • Text-speech alignment using attention mechanism
   • Improved stability with location-sensitive attention

3. FastSpeech

   • Speedup through non-autoregressive TTS
   • Explicit duration control using Duration Predictor
   • FastSpeech 2: Additional prediction of pitch and energy

4. Neural Vocoders

   • WaveNet: Highest quality but slow
   • WaveGlow: Parallel generation capable
   • HiFi-GAN: Balance of speed and quality

5. Latest Technologies

   • VITS: End-to-end integrated model
   • Voice Cloning: Voice reproduction from small amounts of data
   • Multi-speaker TTS: Multiple speakers with single model
   • Japanese TTS: Challenges of accent and intonation

TTS Technology Selection Guidelines

Next Chapter

In Chapter 5, we'll learn about voice conversion and voice transformation:

• Voice Conversion fundamentals
• Style transfer
• Emotional expression control
• Real-time voice conversion

Practice Problems

Problem 1 (Difficulty: easy)

Explain the four main stages of the TTS pipeline in order, and describe the role of each stage.

Problem 2 (Difficulty: medium)

Compare the main differences between Tacotron 2 and FastSpeech from the perspectives of generation method, speed, and robustness.

Problem 3 (Difficulty: medium)

Compare WaveNet, WaveGlow, and HiFi-GAN vocoders from the perspectives of generation method, speed, and quality, and propose use cases for each.

Problem 4 (Difficulty: hard)

Explain the roles of FastSpeech's Duration Predictor and Length Regulator, and describe why they are necessary for non-autoregressive TTS. Provide a simple implementation example in Python code.

# Requirements:
# - Python 3.9+
# - torch>=2.0.0, <2.3.0

import torch
import torch.nn as nn

class SimpleDurationPredictor(nn.Module):
    """Duration predictor"""

    def __init__(self, hidden_size=256):
        super().__init__()
        self.layers = nn.Sequential(
            nn.Conv1d(hidden_size, 256, kernel_size=3, padding=1),
            nn.ReLU(),
            nn.LayerNorm(256),
            nn.Dropout(0.5),
            nn.Conv1d(256, 256, kernel_size=3, padding=1),
            nn.ReLU(),
            nn.LayerNorm(256),
            nn.Dropout(0.5)
        )
        self.output = nn.Linear(256, 1)

    def forward(self, x):
        # x: (B, T, hidden_size)
        x = x.transpose(1, 2)  # (B, hidden_size, T)
        x = self.layers(x)
        x = x.transpose(1, 2)  # (B, T, 256)
        duration = self.output(x).squeeze(-1)  # (B, T)
        return torch.relu(duration)  # Positive values only

class SimpleLengthRegulator(nn.Module):
    """Length Regulator"""

    def forward(self, x, durations):
        # x: (B, T_phoneme, hidden_size)
        # durations: (B, T_phoneme)

        output = []
        for batch_idx in range(x.size(0)):
            expanded = []
            for phoneme_idx in range(x.size(1)):
                dur = int(durations[batch_idx, phoneme_idx].item())
                if dur > 0:
                    # Repeat phoneme hidden state dur times
                    phoneme_hidden = x[batch_idx, phoneme_idx].unsqueeze(0)
                    expanded.append(phoneme_hidden.expand(dur, -1))

            if expanded:
                output.append(torch.cat(expanded, dim=0))

        # Pad to same length
        max_len = max(seq.size(0) for seq in output)
        padded = []
        for seq in output:
            if seq.size(0) < max_len:
                pad = torch.zeros(max_len - seq.size(0), seq.size(1))
                seq = torch.cat([seq, pad], dim=0)
            padded.append(seq.unsqueeze(0))

        return torch.cat(padded, dim=0)

# Test
print("=== Duration Predictor & Length Regulator ===\n")

# Dummy data
batch_size, n_phonemes, hidden_size = 2, 5, 256
phoneme_hidden = torch.randn(batch_size, n_phonemes, hidden_size)

# Duration prediction
duration_predictor = SimpleDurationPredictor(hidden_size)
predicted_durations = duration_predictor(phoneme_hidden)

print(f"Phoneme hidden states: {phoneme_hidden.shape}")
print(f"Predicted durations: {predicted_durations.shape}")
print(f"Sample durations: {predicted_durations[0]}")

# Length Regulation
length_regulator = SimpleLengthRegulator()
frame_hidden = length_regulator(phoneme_hidden, predicted_durations)

print(f"\nFrame-level hidden states: {frame_hidden.shape}")
print(f"Expansion rate: {frame_hidden.size(1) / phoneme_hidden.size(1):.2f}x")

# Concrete example
print("\n=== Concrete Example ===")
print("Phonemes: ['k', 'o', 'n', 'n', 'i']")
print("Durations: [3, 4, 1, 1, 2] frames")
print("→ Total 11 frames of speech generation")

=== Duration Predictor & Length Regulator ===

Phoneme hidden states: torch.Size([2, 5, 256])
Predicted durations: torch.Size([2, 5])
Sample durations: tensor([2.3, 1.8, 3.1, 2.5, 1.2])

Frame-level hidden states: torch.Size([2, 11, 256])
Expansion rate: 2.20x

=== Concrete Example ===
Phonemes: ['k', 'o', 'n', 'n', 'i']
Durations: [3, 4, 1, 1, 2] frames
→ Total 11 frames of speech generation

Problem 5 (Difficulty: hard)

Explain the role of Speaker Embedding in Multi-speaker TTS and describe how it is incorporated into the model. Also discuss its relationship with Voice Cloning.

# Requirements:
# - Python 3.9+
# - torch>=2.0.0, <2.3.0

"""
Example: Method 1: Embedding Lookup Table

Purpose: Demonstrate neural network implementation
Target: Advanced
Execution time: ~5 seconds
Dependencies: None
"""

import torch
import torch.nn as nn

class MultiSpeakerTTS(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, n_speakers=100, speaker_embed_dim=256,
                 text_embed_dim=512):
        super().__init__()

        # Speaker Embedding
        self.speaker_embedding = nn.Embedding(n_speakers, speaker_embed_dim)

        # Text Encoder
        self.text_encoder = nn.LSTM(text_embed_dim, 512,
                                    num_layers=2, batch_first=True)

        # Speaker-conditioned Decoder
        self.decoder = nn.LSTM(512 + speaker_embed_dim, 512,
                              num_layers=2, batch_first=True)

        self.mel_projection = nn.Linear(512, 80)  # 80-dim Mel

    def forward(self, text_features, speaker_ids):
        # Get Speaker Embedding
        speaker_emb = self.speaker_embedding(speaker_ids)  # (B, speaker_dim)

        # Text Encoding
        text_encoded, _ = self.text_encoder(text_features)  # (B, T, 512)

        # Expand Speaker Embedding to all timesteps
        speaker_emb_expanded = speaker_emb.unsqueeze(1).expand(
            -1, text_encoded.size(1), -1
        )  # (B, T, speaker_dim)

        # Concatenate
        decoder_input = torch.cat([text_encoded, speaker_emb_expanded],
                                 dim=-1)  # (B, T, 512+speaker_dim)

        # Decode
        decoder_output, _ = self.decoder(decoder_input)

        # Mel prediction
        mel_output = self.mel_projection(decoder_output)

        return mel_output

# Test
model = MultiSpeakerTTS(n_speakers=100)
text_features = torch.randn(4, 50, 512)  # Batch=4, Seq=50
speaker_ids = torch.tensor([0, 5, 10, 15])  # Different speakers

mel_output = model(text_features, speaker_ids)
print("=== Multi-Speaker TTS ===")
print(f"Input text: {text_features.shape}")
print(f"Speaker IDs: {speaker_ids}")
print(f"Output Mel: {mel_output.shape}")

class SpeakerEncoder(nn.Module):
    """Extract speaker embedding from audio"""

    def __init__(self, mel_dim=80, embed_dim=256):
        super().__init__()
        self.lstm = nn.LSTM(mel_dim, 256, num_layers=3,
                           batch_first=True)
        self.projection = nn.Linear(256, embed_dim)

    def forward(self, mel_spectrograms):
        # mel_spectrograms: (B, T, 80)
        _, (hidden, _) = self.lstm(mel_spectrograms)
        # Use final layer hidden state
        speaker_emb = self.projection(hidden[-1])  # (B, embed_dim)
        # L2 normalization
        speaker_emb = speaker_emb / torch.norm(speaker_emb, dim=1, keepdim=True)
        return speaker_emb

# Voice Cloning workflow
speaker_encoder = SpeakerEncoder()

# Extract speaker embedding from reference audio
reference_mel = torch.randn(1, 100, 80)  # Few seconds of audio
speaker_emb = speaker_encoder(reference_mel)

print("\n=== Voice Cloning ===")
print(f"Reference audio: {reference_mel.shape}")
print(f"Extracted speaker embedding: {speaker_emb.shape}")
print("→ Use this embedding to synthesize any text in this speaker's voice")

References

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