WaveNet turns 10: TTS shifts end-to-end, no vocoder, no RNN
DocXavi · x · 2026-09-10
Marking 10 years since WaveNet, the original author recalls using autoregression with long context before Transformers existed. Commenters highlight how TTS has since gone fully end-to-end: waveform-level output without vocoding, categorical without regression, and dilated causal convnets replacing RNNs — a full paradigm shift in speech synthesis.
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