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Benchmarking Expressive Japanese Character Text-to-Speech with VITS and Style-BERT-VITS2

Rackauckas et al., 2025

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12440968784654283893
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Rackauckas Z
Hirschberg J
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arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.17320

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Synthesizing expressive Japanese character speech poses unique challenges due to pitch- accent sensitivity and stylistic variability. This paper benchmarks two open-source text-to- speech models--VITS and Style-BERT-VITS2 JP Extra (SBV2JE)--on in-domain, character …
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