Teacher-Student Training for Robust Tacotron-based TTS

Tacotron2-FR: Tacotron2-based model with free running (FR) mode

Tacotron2-SS: Tacotron2-based model with scheduled sampling (SS) mode

Tacotron2-KD: Tacotron2-based model with proposed teacher-student training method by using knowledge distillation (KD)

-----------------------> Mandarin Speech Samples <-----------------------

1 - Naturalness Evaluation
	Tacotron2-FR	Tacotron2-SS	Tacotron2-KD
"城市的灯光真美丽，不是吗？"
“因某一个细节而功败垂成，是否是最大的悲哀呢。”

2 - Robustness Evaluation
	Tacotron2-SS	Tacotron2-KD
“这个暂用名起的也真是有想象力，就像最近很多人在谈新零售，这也一定是个暂用名，因为我们只能用旧名词来命名一个新事物，但是我们心里得清楚，它未来一定是一个全新的东西。”
“又率部参加了保卫武汉的战斗，两次立下战功，从此便在军界崭露头角。”

3 - Prosody Evaluation
	Tacotron2-SS	Tacotron2-KD
"1989年| 受英国国家科学与工程研究委员会|访问研究基金资助 | 到英国剑桥大学 | 微电子研究中心 | 做 |博士后研究"
"清晨入古寺|初日照高林"

------------------------> English Speech Samples <------------------------

1 - Naturalness Evaluation
	Tacotron2-FR	Tacotron2-SS	Tacotron2-KD
"all or nothing, now or never."
"The island has since changed hands and has its own farm."

2 - Robustness Evaluation
	Tacotron2-SS	Tacotron2-KD
"backslash x eight six backslash Ship backslash zero backslash A d d r e s s B o o k dot C o n t a c t s A d d r e s"
"config file must contain A, B, C, D, E, F, and G."

3 - Prosody Evaluation
	Tacotron2-SS	Tacotron2-KD
"A person who truly loves you will never let you go | no matter how hard | the situation is.",
“Give so much time to improving yourself | that you won't have time to criticize others.”