Here are some more talks from around 2017-2018 that will help you understand how we arrived at the current state-of-the-art. There is some overlap in the material, but each talk is coming from a different angle, and was for a different audience.
- Speech Synthesis: Where did the signal processing go?
- Speaking naturally? It depends who is listening…
- Does ‘end-to-end’ speech synthesis make any sense?
You now need to explore the literature for yourself, to find out what the current state-of-the -art is. But you are strongly recommended to develop a good understanding of the approaches covered in the course prior to this point first, so that your understanding has a solid foundation.
Here are the key places to start looking for good papers:
Conferences
- Interspeech (the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association) – start with the most recent year and work backwards
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- Speech Synthesis Workshop – type “SSW” in the search box
- Blizzard Challenge workshops