Neural Text-to-Speech Engines — Speech Synthesis

This project is a neural text-to-speech engine and voice cloning toolkit designed to generate synthetic speech that mimics the vocal characteristics of a target speaker. It functions as a real-time audio synthesizer, utilizing a deep learning pipeline to convert written text into high-fidelity speech output with minimal latency. The system employs a transfer learning framework that leverages pre-trained speaker verification models to adapt synthesis to new, unseen vocal identities. By using an encoder-based speaker embedding process, the toolkit maps variable-length audio samples into a latent space to preserve unique speaker characteristics. The architecture is organized into a modular pipeline that separates the encoding, synthesis, and vocoder stages, allowing for independent optimization of each component. The synthesis process relies on autoregressive sequence generation to transform text into acoustic representations, which are then converted into time-domain waveforms by a neural vocoder. Users can interact with the system through both command-line and graphical interfaces to process custom recordings or pre-trained models for speech generation.