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However, the parallel computation increases the difficulty while learning the alignment between text and speech in Transformer, which is further magnified in the multi-speaker scenario with noisy data and diverse speakers, and hinders the applicability of Transformer for multi-speaker TTS. In this paper, we develop a robust and high-quality multi-speaker Transformer TTS system called MultiSpeech, with several specially designed components/techniques to improve text-to-speech alignment: 1) a diagonal constraint on the weight matrix of encoder-decoder attention in both training and inference; 2) layer normalization on phoneme embedding in encoder to better preserve position information; 3) a bottleneck in decoder pre-net to prevent copy between consecutive speech frames. Experiments on VCTK and LibriTTS multi-speaker datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of MultiSpeech: 1) it synthesizes more robust and better quality multi-speaker voice than naive Transformer based TTS; 2) with a MutiSpeech model as the teacher, we obtain a strong multi-speaker FastSpeech model with almost zero quality degradation while enjoying extremely fast inference speed.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04664v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.04664v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"multispeech-multi-speaker-text-to-speech-with","repo_url":"https://github.com/msalhab96/MultiSpeech","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"MIT"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"decoder","task_name":"Decoder"},{"task_slug":"text-to-speech","task_name":"Text to Speech"},{"task_slug":"text-to-speech-1","task_name":"text-to-speech"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"absolute-position-encodings","method_name":"Absolute Position Encodings"},{"method_slug":"adam","method_name":"Adam"},{"method_slug":"attention","method_name":"Attention"},{"method_slug":"bpe","method_name":"BPE"},{"method_slug":"dense-connections","method_name":"Dense Connections"},{"method_slug":"dropout","method_name":"Dropout"},{"method_slug":"label-smoothing","method_name":"Label Smoothing"},{"method_slug":"layer-normalization","method_name":"Layer Normalization"},{"method_slug":"linear-layer","method_name":"Linear Layer"},{"method_slug":"multi-head-attention","method_name":"Multi-Head Attention"},{"method_slug":"position-wise-feed-forward-layer","method_name":"Position-Wise Feed-Forward Layer"},{"method_slug":"relu","method_name":"ReLU"},{"method_slug":"residual-connection","method_name":"Residual Connection"},{"method_slug":"softmax","method_name":"Softmax"},{"method_slug":"transformer","method_name":"Transformer"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/2006.04664","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2006.04664","mcp":{"get_harvested_code_for_paper":{"arxiv_id":"2006.04664"}},"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers","read_at":"2026-09-25T09:33:49+00:00","read_at_is":"when the build read Syntology's graph, not when any sample ran","claim":"Per-sample execution status on synthesized fixtures; not a correctness claim about the paper. 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