This is the online TTS demo for the paper Probing the phonetic and phonological knowledge of tones in Mandarin TTS models.
TTS samples
These are samples for evaluating the quality of TTS models.
Sample 1
Ground truth
Tacotron 2
Tacotron 2 + BERT
Sample 2
Ground truth
Tacotron 2
Tacotron 2 + BERT
Sample 3
Ground truth
Tacotron 2
Tacotron 2 + BERT
Tone-3 sandhi samples
These are the samples for probing the phonological knowledge of Tone-3 sandhi in TTS models. Neither models were successful in this task.
Sample 1
请你给我买两把雨伞。
Tacotron 2
Tacotron 2 + BERT
Sample 2
种马场养有五百匹好母马。
Tacotron 2
Tacotron 2 + BERT
Sample 3
我想请你给我好好辅导法语补语。
Tacotron 2
Tacotron 2 + BERT
Random samples
These are some syntactically complex sentences. Just for fun.
Sample 1
衣服上除了校徽别别别的，但是有同学不听话，让他别别别的别别别的他非得别别的。
Tacotron 2
Tacotron 2 + BERT
Sample 2
我也想过过过儿过过的生活。
Tacotron 2
Tacotron 2 + BERT
Sample 3
我有一个小本本本本本来很干净，后来给我弄脏了。
Tacotron 2
Tacotron 2 + BERT
Sample 4
过几天天天天气不好，下雨天骑车容易打滑，还好我反应快，一把把把把住了。