Factorized-VITS: Decoupling Prosody and Text in End-to-End Speech Synthesis without External or Secondary Aligner

We propose Factorized-VITS, an advanced end-to-end text-to-speech model that incorporates explicit text-side prosody modeling control into VITS while achieving a clean factorization of the audio prior hidden space into text and prosody subspaces. Unlike previous works that rely on external or secondary aligners, Factorized-VITS is the first work attempting to do on-the-fly alignment in the factorized text subspace without introducing extra parameters, which not only simplifies the training procedure but also enables the use of a more complex prosody prior. Our experiments demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of this approximation strategy. Furthermore, we implement an in-context learning joint predictor for pitch, energy, and duration, which offers a flexible streaming deployment option.