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DAIEN-TTS: Disentangled Audio Infilling for Environment-Aware Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Audio and Speech Processing 2026-01-21 v2 Sound

Abstract

This paper presents DAIEN-TTS, a zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) framework that enables ENvironment-aware synthesis through Disentangled Audio Infilling. By leveraging separate speaker and environment prompts, DAIEN-TTS allows independent control over the timbre and the background environment of the synthesized speech. Built upon F5-TTS, the proposed DAIEN-TTS first incorporates a pretrained speech-environment separation (SES) module to disentangle the environmental speech into mel-spectrograms of clean speech and environment audio. Two random span masks of varying lengths are then applied to both mel-spectrograms, which, together with the text embedding, serve as conditions for infilling the masked environmental mel-spectrogram, enabling the simultaneous continuation of personalized speech and time-varying environmental audio. To further enhance controllability during inference, we adopt dual classifier-free guidance (DCFG) for the speech and environment components and introduce a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) adaptation strategy to align the synthesized speech with the environment prompt. Experimental results demonstrate that DAIEN-TTS generates environmental personalized speech with high naturalness, strong speaker similarity, and high environmental fidelity.

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@article{arxiv.2509.14684,
  title  = {DAIEN-TTS: Disentangled Audio Infilling for Environment-Aware Text-to-Speech Synthesis},
  author = {Ye-Xin Lu and Yu Gu and Kun Wei and Hui-Peng Du and Yang Ai and Zhen-Hua Ling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.14684},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted by ICASSP 2026