title: Better speech synthesis through scaling
summary: In recent years, the field of image generation has been revolutionized by the
  application of autoregressive transformers and DDPMs. These approaches model
  the process of image generation as a step-wise probabilistic processes and
  leverage large amounts of compute and data to learn the image distribution.
  This methodology of improving performance need not be confined to images. This
  paper describes a way to apply advances in the image generative domain to
  speech synthesis. The result is TorToise -- an expressive, multi-voice
  text-to-speech system.
    All model code and trained weights have been open-sourced at
  https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts.
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paper_authors.name: James Betker
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paper_authors.fullname: James Betker
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paper_title: Better speech synthesis through scaling
paper_summary: In recent years, the field of image generation has been revolutionized by the
  application of autoregressive transformers and DDPMs. These approaches model
  the process of image generation as a step-wise probabilistic processes and
  leverage large amounts of compute and data to learn the image distribution.
  This methodology of improving performance need not be confined to images. This
  paper describes a way to apply advances in the image generative domain to
  speech synthesis. The result is TorToise -- an expressive, multi-voice
  text-to-speech system.
    All model code and trained weights have been open-sourced at
  https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts.
paper_ai_summary: TorToise is an expressive multi-voice speech synthesis system that applies autoregressive transformers and DDPMs from image generation to text-to-speech.
paper_ai_keywords: autoregressive transformers DDPMs