Wang, Chaoren
Overview of the Amphion Toolkit (v0.2)
Li, Jiaqi, Zhang, Xueyao, Wang, Yuancheng, He, Haorui, Wang, Chaoren, Wang, Li, Liao, Huan, Ao, Junyi, Xie, Zeyu, Huang, Yiqiao, Zhang, Junan, Wu, Zhizheng
Amphion is an open-source toolkit for Audio, Music, and Speech Generation, designed to lower the entry barrier for junior researchers and engineers in these fields. It provides a versatile framework that supports a variety of generation tasks and models. In this report, we introduce Amphion v0.2, the second major release developed in 2024. This release features a 100K-hour open-source multilingual dataset, a robust data preparation pipeline, and novel models for tasks such as text-to-speech, audio coding, and voice conversion. Furthermore, the report includes multiple tutorials that guide users through the functionalities and usage of the newly released models.
Emilia: A Large-Scale, Extensive, Multilingual, and Diverse Dataset for Speech Generation
He, Haorui, Shang, Zengqiang, Wang, Chaoren, Li, Xuyuan, Gu, Yicheng, Hua, Hua, Liu, Liwei, Yang, Chen, Li, Jiaqi, Shi, Peiyang, Wang, Yuancheng, Chen, Kai, Zhang, Pengyuan, Wu, Zhizheng
Recent advancements in speech generation have been driven by the large-scale training datasets. However, current models fall short of capturing the spontaneity and variability inherent in real-world human speech, due to their reliance on audiobook datasets limited to formal read-aloud speech styles. To bridge this gap, we introduce Emilia-Pipe, an open-source preprocessing pipeline to extract high-quality training data from valuable yet underexplored in-the-wild data that capture spontaneous human speech in real-world contexts. By leveraging Emilia-Pipe, we construct Emilia, the first multilingual speech generation dataset derived from in-the-wild speech data. This dataset comprises over 101k hours of speech across six languages: English, Chinese, German, French, Japanese, and Korean. Besides, we expand Emilia to Emilia-Large, a dataset exceeding 216k hours, making it the largest open-source speech generation dataset available. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Emilia significantly outperforms traditional audiobook datasets in generating spontaneous and human-like speech, showcasing superior performance in capturing diverse speaker timbre and speaking styles of real-world human speech. Furthermore, this work underscores the importance of scaling dataset size to advance speech generation research and validates the effectiveness of Emilia for both multilingual and crosslingual speech generation.
Emilia: An Extensive, Multilingual, and Diverse Speech Dataset for Large-Scale Speech Generation
He, Haorui, Shang, Zengqiang, Wang, Chaoren, Li, Xuyuan, Gu, Yicheng, Hua, Hua, Liu, Liwei, Yang, Chen, Li, Jiaqi, Shi, Peiyang, Wang, Yuancheng, Chen, Kai, Zhang, Pengyuan, Wu, Zhizheng
Recently, speech generation models have made significant progress by using large-scale training data. However, the research community struggle to produce highly spontaneous and human-like speech due to the lack of large-scale, diverse, and spontaneous speech data. This paper present Emilia, the first multilingual speech generation dataset from in-the-wild speech data, and Emilia-Pipe, the first open-source preprocessing pipeline designed to transform in-the-wild speech data into high-quality training data with annotations for speech generation. Emilia starts with over 101k hours of speech in six languages and features diverse speech with varied speaking styles. To facilitate the scale-up of Emilia, the open-source pipeline Emilia-Pipe can process one hour of raw speech data ready for model training in a few mins, which enables the research community to collaborate on large-scale speech generation research. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of Emilia. Demos are available at: https://emilia-dataset.github.io/Emilia-Demo-Page/.