Streaming Parrotron for on-device speech-to-speech conversion

• DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2023-160
• Publication Date: 2023-08-14T08:22:20Z
• Authors: Oleg Rybakov; Fadi Biadsy; Xia Zhang; Liyang Jiang; Phoenix Meadowlark; Shivani Agrawal
• Keywords: FOS: Computer and information sciences; Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology; Computer Science - Sound; Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing

We present a fully on-device streaming Speech2Speech conversion model that normalizes a given input speech directly to synthesized output speech. Deploying such a model on mobile devices pose significant challenges in terms of memory footprint and computation requirements. We present a streaming-based approach to produce an acceptable delay, with minimal loss in speech conversion quality, when compared to a reference state of the art non-streaming approach. Our method consists of first streaming the encoder in real time while the speaker is speaking. Then, as soon as the speaker stops speaking, we run the spectrogram decoder in streaming mode along the side of a streaming vocoder to generate output speech. To achieve an acceptable delay-quality trade-off, we propose a novel hybrid approach for look-ahead in the encoder which combines a look-ahead feature stacker with a look-ahead self-attention. We show that our streaming approach is almost 2x faster than real time on the Pixel4 CPU.