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We investigated the training of a shared model for both text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) tasks. We propose using an extended model architecture of Tacotron, that is a multi-source sequence-to-sequence model with a dual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-09 Mingyang Zhang , Xin Wang , Fuming Fang , Haizhou Li , Junichi Yamagishi

We introduce an approach to multilingual speech synthesis which uses the meta-learning concept of contextual parameter generation and produces natural-sounding multilingual speech using more languages and less training data than previous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Tomáš Nekvinda , Ondřej Dušek

We propose a novel two-stage text-to-speech (TTS) framework with two types of discrete tokens, i.e., semantic and acoustic tokens, for high-fidelity speech synthesis. It features two core components: the Interpreting module, which processes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Joun Yeop Lee , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Ji-Hyun Lee , Hoon-Young Cho , Nam Soo Kim

Recent speech technologies have led to produce high quality synthesised speech due to recent advances in neural Text to Speech (TTS). However, such TTS models depend on extensive amounts of data that can be costly to produce and is hardly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Asma Amalas , Mounir Ghogho , Mohamed Chetouani , Rachid Oulad Haj Thami

There has been a significant progress in Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis technology in recent years, thanks to the advancement in neural generative modeling. However, existing methods on any-speaker adaptive TTS have achieved unsatisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Minki Kang , Dongchan Min , Sung Ju Hwang

Synthesizing the voices of unseen speakers remains a persisting challenge in multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS). Existing methods model speaker characteristics through speaker conditioning during training, leading to increased model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Shreeram Suresh Chandra , Junchen Lu , Berrak Sisman

In this paper, we investigate the semi-supervised joint training of text to speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR), where a small amount of paired data and a large amount of unpaired text data are available. Conventional…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Naoki Makishima , Satoshi Suzuki , Atsushi Ando , Ryo Masumura

Text-to-Speech (TTS) models have advanced significantly, aiming to accurately replicate human speech's diversity, including unique speaker identities and linguistic nuances. Despite these advancements, achieving an optimal balance between…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Jinhyeok Yang , Junhyeok Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Seunghun Ji , Hyeongju Kim , Juheon Lee

Building multispeaker neural network-based text-to-speech synthesis systems commonly relies on the availability of large amounts of high quality recordings from each speaker and conditioning the training process on the speaker's identity or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Beata Lorincz , Adriana Stan , Mircea Giurgiu

Generating expressive and contextually appropriate prosody remains a challenge for modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems. This is particularly evident for long, multi-sentence inputs. In this paper, we examine simple extensions to a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Peter Makarov , Ammar Abbas , Mateusz Łajszczak , Arnaud Joly , Sri Karlapati , Alexis Moinet , Thomas Drugman , Penny Karanasou

Text-to-speech systems recently achieved almost indistinguishable quality from human speech. However, the prosody of those systems is generally flatter than natural speech, producing samples with low expressiveness. Disentanglement of…

Speaker embedding is an important front-end module to explore discriminative speaker features for many speech applications where speaker information is needed. Current SOTA backbone networks for speaker embedding are designed to aggregate…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Ruiteng Zhang , Jianguo Wei , Xugang Lu , Wenhuan Lu , Di Jin , Junhai Xu , Lin Zhang , Yantao Ji , Jianwu Dang

Incremental text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis generates utterances in small linguistic units for the sake of real-time and low-latency applications. We previously proposed an incremental TTS method that leverages a large pre-trained language…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Takaaki Saeki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Recent language model-based text-to-speech (TTS) frameworks demonstrate scalability and in-context learning capabilities. However, they suffer from robustness issues due to the accumulation of errors in speech unit predictions during…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Kun Zhou , Shengkui Zhao , Yukun Ma , Chong Zhang , Hao Wang , Dianwen Ng , Chongjia Ni , Nguyen Trung Hieu , Jia Qi Yip , Bin Ma

This paper describes a novel text-to-speech (TTS) technique based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN), without use of any recurrent units. Recurrent neural networks (RNN) have become a standard technique to model sequential data…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Hideyuki Tachibana , Katsuya Uenoyama , Shunsuke Aihara

There are significant challenges for speaker adaptation in text-to-speech for languages that are not widely spoken or for speakers with accents or dialects that are not well-represented in the training data. To address this issue, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Ambuj Mehrish , Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap , Li Yingting , Navonil Majumder , Soujanya Poria

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

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

In this paper we introduce a first attempt on understanding how a non-autoregressive factorised multi-speaker speech synthesis architecture exploits the information present in different speaker embedding sets. We analyse if jointly learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Adriana Stan , Johannah O'Mahony

This paper presents a novel design of neural network system for fine-grained style modeling, transfer and prediction in expressive text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. Fine-grained modeling is realized by extracting style embeddings from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Daxin Tan , Tan Lee