Behind Kokoro TTS: StyleTTS 2 through Style Diffusion and Adversarial Training (Paper Walkthrough)

StyleTTS 2: Towards Human-Level Text-to-Speech through Style Diffusion and Adversarial Training with Large Speech Language Models

👥Authors: Yinghao Aaron Li, Cong Han, Vinay S. Raghavan, Gavin Mischler, Nima Mesgarani
🏫Institutes: Columbia University

🍵 Inside Kokoro TTS: StyleTTS2 Talks the Talk with Style! 🐸

StyleTTS 2 introduces a latent variable diffusion model for generating speech styles without requiring reference audio 🐦. It integrates large speech language models like WavLM as discriminators for improved speech naturalness, offering human-level synthesis across single 🐱 and multispeaker 🐶 datasets. 🍣

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