Audios

With the progress made in speaker-adaptive TTS approaches, advanced approaches have shown a remarkable capacity to reproduce the speaker’s voice in the commonly used TTS datasets. However, mimicking voices characterized by substantial accents, such as non-native English speakers, is still challenging. Regrettably, the absence of a dedicated TTS dataset for speakers with substantial accents inhibits the research and evaluation of speaker-adaptive TTS models under such conditions. To address this gap, we developed a corpus of non-native speakers' English utterances.