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Data availability is crucial for advancing artificial intelligence applications, including voice-based technologies. As content creation, particularly in social media, experiences increasing demand, translation and text-to-speech (TTS)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Ahmet Gunduz , Kamer Ali Yuksel , Kareem Darwish , Golara Javadi , Fabio Minazzi , Nicola Sobieski , Sebastien Bratieres

We introduce SupertonicTTS, a novel text-to-speech (TTS) system designed for efficient and streamlined speech synthesis. SupertonicTTS comprises three components: a speech autoencoder for continuous latent representation, a text-to-latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Hyeongju Kim , Jinhyeok Yang , Yechan Yu , Seunghun Ji , Jacob Morton , Frederik Bous , Joon Byun , Juheon Lee

Producing synthetic voice, similar to human-like sound, is an emerging novelty of modern interactive media systems. Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems try to generate synthetic and authentic voices via text input. Besides, well known and familiar…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Mohammad Reza Hasanabadi

While recent advances in Text-To-Speech synthesis have yielded remarkable improvements in generating high-quality speech, research on lightweight and fast models is limited. This paper introduces FLY-TTS, a new fast, lightweight and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yinlin Guo , Yening Lv , Jinqiao Dou , Yan Zhang , Yuehai Wang

Recent studies have outlined the accessibility challenges faced by blind or visually impaired, and less-literate people, in interacting with social networks, in-spite of facilitating technologies such as monotone text-to-speech (TTS) screen…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Suparna De , Ionut Bostan , Nishanth Sastry

We present MParrotTTS, a unified multilingual, multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis model that can produce high-quality speech. Benefiting from a modularized training paradigm exploiting self-supervised speech representations,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Neil Shah , Vishal Tambrahalli , Saiteja Kosgi , Niranjan Pedanekar , Vineet Gandhi

Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is a technology that converts written text into spoken words, enabling a natural and accessible means of communication. This abstract explores the key aspects of TTS synthesis, encompassing its underlying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Harini s , Manoj G M

Open-source text-to-speech (TTS) frameworks have emerged as highly adaptable platforms for developing speech synthesis systems across a wide range of languages. However, their applicability is not uniform -- particularly when the target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Teodora Răgman , Adrian Bogdan Stânea , Horia Cucu , Adriana Stan

We present a new neural text to speech (TTS) method that is able to transform text to speech in voices that are sampled in the wild. Unlike other systems, our solution is able to deal with unconstrained voice samples and without requiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Yaniv Taigman , Lior Wolf , Adam Polyak , Eliya Nachmani

Neural Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is a powerful technology that can generate speech using neural networks. One of the most remarkable features of TTS synthesis is its capability to produce speech in the voice of different speakers. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Vinotha R , Hepsiba D , L. D. Vijay Anand , Deepak John Reji

Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems find broad applications in voice assistants, e-learning, and audiobook creation. The pursuit of modern models, like Diffusion Models (DMs), holds promise for achieving high-fidelity, real-time speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiang Li , Fan Bu , Ambuj Mehrish , Yingting Li , Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

We present ParrotTTS, a modularized text-to-speech synthesis model leveraging disentangled self-supervised speech representations. It can train a multi-speaker variant effectively using transcripts from a single speaker. ParrotTTS adapts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Neil Shah , Saiteja Kosgi , Vishal Tambrahalli , Neha Sahipjohn , Niranjan Pedanekar , Vineet Gandhi

Text to speech (TTS), or speech synthesis, which aims to synthesize intelligible and natural speech given text, is a hot research topic in speech, language, and machine learning communities and has broad applications in the industry. As the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Frank Soong , Tie-Yan Liu

We introduce StyleFusion-TTS, a prompt and/or audio referenced, style and speaker-controllable, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system designed to enhance the editability and naturalness of current research literature. We propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Zhiyong Chen , Xinnuo Li , Zhiqi Ai , Shugong Xu

In this work, we take on the challenging task of building a single text-to-speech synthesis system that is capable of generating speech in over 7000 languages, many of which lack sufficient data for traditional TTS development. By…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Florian Lux , Sarina Meyer , Lyonel Behringer , Frank Zalkow , Phat Do , Matt Coler , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Ngoc Thang Vu

Text-to-Speech (TTS) has recently seen great progress in synthesizing high-quality speech owing to the rapid development of parallel TTS systems, but producing speech with naturalistic prosodic variations, speaking styles and emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

In recent years, neural network based methods for multi-speaker text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) have made significant progress. However, the current speaker encoder models used in these methods still cannot capture enough speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jinlong Xue , Yayue Deng , Yichen Han , Ya Li , Jianqing Sun , Jiaen Liang

Vocoders received renewed attention as main components in statistical parametric text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis and speech transformation systems. Even though there are vocoding techniques give almost accepted synthesized speech, their high…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi , Tamás Gábor Csapó , Géza Németh

Modern TTS systems are capable of creating highly realistic and natural-sounding speech. Despite these developments, the process of customizing TTS voices remains a complex task, mostly requiring the expertise of specialists within the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Silvan Mertes , Daksitha Withanage Don , Otto Grothe , Johanna Kuch , Ruben Schlagowski , Elisabeth André

Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is the process of producing synthesized speech from text or phoneme input. Traditional TTS models contain multiple processing steps and require external aligners, which provide attention alignments of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Hyunseung Chung , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee
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