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We introduce a text-to-speech(TTS) framework based on a neural transducer. We use discretized semantic tokens acquired from wav2vec2.0 embeddings, which makes it easy to adopt a neural transducer for the TTS framework enjoying its monotonic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Minchan Kim , Myeonghun Jeong , Byoung Jin Choi , Dongjune Lee , Nam Soo Kim

The presence of multiple talkers in the surrounding environment poses a difficult challenge for real-time speech communication systems considering the constraints on network size and complexity. In this paper, we present Personalized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ritwik Giri , Shrikant Venkataramani , Jean-Marc Valin , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

In the development of neural text-to-speech systems, model pre-training with a large amount of non-target speakers' data is a common approach. However, in terms of ultimately achieved system performance for target speaker(s), the actual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Guangyan Zhang , Yichong Leng , Daxin Tan , Ying Qin , Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao , Tan Lee

Modeling the rich prosodic variations inherent in human speech is essential for generating natural-sounding speech. While speaker embeddings are commonly used as conditioning inputs in personalized speech generation, they are typically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , John H. L. Hansen , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

Conventional text-to-speech (TTS) research has predominantly focused on enhancing the quality of synthesized speech for speakers in the training dataset. The challenge of synthesizing lifelike speech for unseen, out-of-dataset speakers,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Wenbin Wang , Yang Song , Sanjay Jha

This paper presents a method for selecting appropriate synthetic speech samples from a given large text-to-speech (TTS) dataset as supplementary training data for an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. We trained a neural network,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Shuo Liu , Leda Sarı , Chunyang Wu , Gil Keren , Yuan Shangguan , Jay Mahadeokar , Ozlem Kalinli

The diversity of speaker profiles in multi-speaker TTS systems is a crucial aspect of its performance, as it measures how many different speaker profiles TTS systems could possibly synthesize. However, this important aspect is often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Jie Pu , Yixiong Meng , Oguz Elibol

We propose UnitSpeech, a speaker-adaptive speech synthesis method that fine-tunes a diffusion-based text-to-speech (TTS) model using minimal untranscribed data. To achieve this, we use the self-supervised unit representation as a pseudo…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Heeseung Kim , Sungwon Kim , Jiheum Yeom , Sungroh Yoon

In this work, we propose a novel method for modeling numerous speakers, which enables expressing the overall characteristics of speakers in detail like a trained multi-speaker model without additional training on the target speaker's…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jungil Kong , Junmo Lee , Jeongmin Kim , Beomjeong Kim , Jihoon Park , Dohee Kong , Changheon Lee , Sangjin Kim

The potential of synthetic data in text-to-speech (TTS) model training has gained increasing attention, yet its rationality and effectiveness require systematic validation. In this study, we systematically investigate the feasibility of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tingxiao Zhou , Leying Zhang , Zhengyang Chen , Yanmin Qian

In recent years, several text-to-speech systems have been proposed to synthesize natural speech in zero-shot, few-shot, and low-resource scenarios. However, these methods typically require training with data from many different speakers.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana , Frank Zalkow , Christian Dittmar , Nicola Pia , Emanuel A. P. Habets

Text-to-speech models trained on large-scale datasets have demonstrated impressive in-context learning capabilities and naturalness. However, control of speaker identity and style in these models typically requires conditioning on reference…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Dan Lyth , Simon King

Zero-shot multi-speaker Text-to-Speech (TTS) generates target speaker voices given an input text and the corresponding speaker embedding. In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of the TTS reconstruction objective to improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Jaejin Cho , Piotr Zelasko , Jesus Villalba , Shinji Watanabe , Najim Dehak

The recent advances in deep learning are mostly driven by availability of large amount of training data. However, availability of such data is not always possible for specific tasks such as speaker recognition where collection of large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-19 Prashant Anand , Ajeet Kumar Singh , Siddharth Srivastava , Brejesh Lall

Recently, end-to-end multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) systems gain success in the situation where a lot of high-quality speech plus their corresponding transcriptions are available. However, laborious paired data collection processes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Tao Tu , Yuan-Jui Chen , Alexander H. Liu , Hung-yi Lee

On account of growing demands for personalization, the need for a so-called few-shot TTS system that clones speakers with only a few data is emerging. To address this issue, we propose Attentron, a few-shot TTS model that clones voices of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Seungwoo Choi , Seungju Han , Dongyoung Kim , Sungjoo Ha

There are many use cases in singing synthesis where creating voices from small amounts of data is desirable. In text-to-speech there have been several promising results that apply voice cloning techniques to modern deep learning based…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Ryunosuke Daido

Disentangling speaker and content attributes of a speech signal into separate latent representations followed by decoding the content with an exchanged speaker representation is a popular approach for voice conversion, which can be trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Michael Kuhlmann , Fritz Seebauer , Janek Ebbers , Petra Wagner , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Singing voice synthesis has been paid rising attention with the rapid development of speech synthesis area. In general, a studio-level singing corpus is usually necessary to produce a natural singing voice from lyrics and music-related…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Heyang Xue , Shan Yang , Yi Lei , Lei Xie , Xiulin Li

This paper presents a novel framework to build a voice conversion (VC) system by learning from a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system, that is called TTS-VC transfer learning. We first develop a multi-speaker speech synthesis system with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-07 Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Li Zhao , Haizhou Li