tacotron2 VS hifi-gan

Which might use https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2 in their backend

One thing is uberduck.ai but I think it's freemium (it's free but some features are premium). There's also tacotron 2.0 and its pytorch page. Many other softwares on sub but tacotron gave this and this and this.

Maybe we can use AI to hear this rapped by a famous rapper?

Sadly GothicBot the TTS I knew, doesn't exist anymore, but here is an alternative. It works in polish from what I heard.

From what I’ve seen, NVIDIA’s Tacotron2 can already be used to create some pretty convincing singing.

You might want to try something like Tacotron 2 by Nvidia to experiment with your current data.

We have the TorToiSe repo, the SV2TTS repo, and from here you have the other models like Tacotron 2, FastSpeech 2, and such. A there is a lot that goes into training a baseline for these models on the LJSpeech and LibriTTS datasets. Fine tuning is left up to the user.

I had tried tacotron2 + waveglow and it's quite easy to get very good results. The hardest part is collecting clean data.

It will be interesting to see if the artefacts you noticed persist once we've trained the model for longer and switch to a better vocoder such as HiFi-GAN. (The paper and audio examples use WaveGlow since that's the default of the repository we compared ourselves to.) That said, "choppiness" sounds to me like it might be related to the temporal evolution, in which case it's something that a non-causal, convolutional post-net might be able to smooth over.

Hey, as far as I know this paper is the current SoTA on public data that is open source. Github is here. If you are interested in really getting into speech synthesis, this page has everything (modern stuff on the bottom.)