RJ Skerry-Ryan
Google researcher; co-author of Tacotron and Tacotron 2 and first author of Tacotron prosody transfer
- Researcher listed in Google Research's people directory (publications 2017–2025), Google Research1
RJ Skerry-Ryan is listed in Google Research's people directory, with Google publications from 2017 through 2025 and speech processing among the research areas. Skerry-Ryan is the second author of Tacotron: Towards End-to-End Speech Synthesis, an end-to-end generative text-to-speech model whose paper lists its authors at Google, and a co-author of the Tacotron 2 paper. Skerry-Ryan is also first author of Towards End-to-End Prosody Transfer for Expressive Speech Synthesis with Tacotron, which extends Tacotron with a learned latent embedding space of prosody.12345
Work
Tacotron (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Second author of Tacotron: Towards End-to-End Speech Synthesis (2017), which presents a text-to-speech model that synthesizes speech directly from characters; the paper lists the authors at Google, Inc.23
Tacotron prosody transfer (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
First author of Towards End-to-End Prosody Transfer for Expressive Speech Synthesis with Tacotron (2018), which conditions Tacotron on a learned prosody embedding derived from a reference recording.5
Tacotron 2 (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram Predictions (2017), the Tacotron 2 paper.4
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