Sprachsynthese -- State-of-the-Art in englischer und deutscher Sprache

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current state of speech synthesis technology for English and German, focusing on mel-spectrogram generation and vocoders, and discusses data sets and transferability between languages.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of speech synthesis methods, data resources, and the challenges of applying English-based models to German.

Findings

Overview of speech synthesis techniques for English and German

Discussion of data sets available for both languages

Analysis of transferability of English speech synthesis results to German

Abstract

Reading text aloud is an important feature for modern computer applications. It not only facilitates access to information for visually impaired people, but is also a pleasant convenience for non-impaired users. In this article, the state of the art of speech synthesis is presented separately for mel-spectrogram generation and vocoders. It concludes with an overview of available data sets for English and German with a discussion of the transferability of the good speech synthesis results from English to German language.