Short Course: SC-2b: Inclusive Neural Speech Synthesis -iNSS (Part 2 of 3)

In the first part, the main components of a Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) system, from front-end to acoustic modelling and to the vocoders will be presented. In the second part, concrete applications for making TTS an inclusive technology will be discussed and demonstrated. The main Neural TTS components will be presented taking into account the plethora of approaches currently used, provide the links between them and discuss perspectives. The applications will focus on people with mild to moderate hearing loss, elderly people, blind and low-vision users, and speech-impaired users. iNSS will strongly support hands-on sessions to provide a balance between theory and practice while introducing methods and tools to the participants.