ArmanTTS single-speaker Persian dataset

TTS, or text-to-speech, is a complicated process thatcan be accomplished through appropriate modeling using deeplearning methods. In order to implement deep learning models, asuitable dataset is required. Since there is a scarce amount ofwork done in this field for the Persian language, this paper willintroduce the single speaker dataset: ArmanTTS. We comparedthe characteristics of this dataset with those of various prevalentdatasets to prove that ArmanTTS meets the necessary standardsfor teaching a Persian text-to-speech conversion model. We alsocombined the Tacotron ۲ and HiFi GAN to design a model thatcan receive phonemes as input, with the output being thecorresponding speech. ۴.۰ value of MOS was obtained from realspeech, ۳.۸۷ value was obtained by the vocoder prediction and۲.۹۸ value was reached with the synthetic speech generated bythe TTS model.

Keywords:

dataset , Vocoders , Acoustic models