r0.1.1

PaddlePaddle/PaddleSpeechr0.1.1Jan 14, 2022by Jackwaterveg

AI Summary

A minor update focusing on CLI improvements, the addition of four ASR decoding methods, and refinements to TTS models including speaker embedding support.

Key Highlights

ASR: Added 4 decoding methods (greedy, beam search, attention, rescoring).
TTS: Added speaker embedding and ID support for FastSpeech2.
CLI: Added statistics and unit test capabilities.
Unified configs for ASR and ST tasks.
TTS: Added Style MelGAN and HiFiGAN vocoders.

New Features

English ASR support via Transformer Librispeech model
Support for finetuning SpeedySpeech
Refactor Punctuation Restoration example
Update VCTK Parallel WaveGAN and Multi Band MelGAN
Fix some frontend bugs in TTS

Full Release Notes

# New Features

## CLI : 
  -  Add cli stats. #1274
  -  Add unit test. #1321
  -  ASR: Support English: Add transformer_libirspeech model.  #1297
  -  ASR: Support 4 decoding methods: ctc_greedy_search, ctc_beam_search, attention, attention_rescoring. #1297
  -  ASR & ST: Use the unified config. #1305 / #1312
  -  ASR: Refactor the code. #1260 by **@AdamBear**
  -  TTS: Support long input text by default. #1241
  -  TTS: Add Style MelGAN and HiFiGAN. #1241

## ASR
  - Refactor configs in examples. #1225

## TTS
  -  Fix some frontend bugs. #1262 by **@JiehangXie** /  #1310 
  -  Add speaker embedding and speaker id for style fastspeech2 inference. #1197 by **@jerryuhoo**
  -  Add support for finetuning speedyspeech. #1302 by **@jerryuhoo** / #1322 / #1337
  -  Update VCTK Parallel WaveGAN. #1294
  -  Update Multi Band MelGAN. #1272
 
## ST
  -  Refactor configs in examples. #1225
 
## Text
  - Refactor Punctuation Restoration example. #1215

## Docs
  -   Add topic note for releasing python packages
  -   Add TTS papers. #1330 
  -   Add Frontend G2P topic. #1254
  
## Others
  -  Update released models and results. #1306
  
# Acknowledgements
@zh794390558  @yt605155624   @Jackwaterveg   @KPatr1ck @Mingxue-Xu  @JiehangXie  @grasswolfs  @jerryuhoo @AdamBear @LittleChenCc @JamesLim-sy