Task: Question Understanding
Input (English): Traditional text-to-speech (TTS) systems are composed of complex pipelines BIBREF0 , these often include accoustic frontends, duration model, acoustic prediction model and vocoder models. The architecture of our model utilizes RNN-based Seq2Seq model for generating mel spectrogram from text. The architecture is similar to that of Tacotron 2 BIBREF4  Direct comparison of model parameters between ours and the open-source tacotron 2, our model contains 4.5 million parameters, whereas the Tacotron 2 contains around 13 million parameters with default setting. By helping our model learn attention alignment faster, we can afford to use a smaller overall model to achieve similar quality speech quality. 
 Question: Do they reduce the number of parameters in their architecture compared to other direct text-to-speech models?
Output (English): Yes-no