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We present a multispeaker, multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis model based on Tacotron that is able to produce high quality speech in multiple languages. Moreover, the model is able to transfer voices across languages, e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Heiga Zen , Yonghui Wu , Zhifeng Chen , RJ Skerry-Ryan , Ye Jia , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Phonetic information and linguistic knowledge are an essential component of a Text-to-speech (TTS) front-end. Given a language, a lexicon can be collected offline and Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) relationships are usually modeled in order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Giulia Comini , Manuel Sam Ribeiro , Fan Yang , Heereen Shim , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

Text-to-Speech (TTS) models can generate natural, human-like speech across multiple languages by transforming phonemes into waveforms. However, multilingual TTS remains challenging due to discrepancies in phoneme vocabularies and variations…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Haowei Lou , Hye-young Paik , Sheng Li , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

Transformer-based text to speech (TTS) model (e.g., Transformer TTS~\cite{li2019neural}, FastSpeech~\cite{ren2019fastspeech}) has shown the advantages of training and inference efficiency over RNN-based model (e.g.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Mingjian Chen , Xu Tan , Yi Ren , Jin Xu , Hao Sun , Sheng Zhao , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Conversational text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize speech with proper prosody of reply based on the historical conversation. However, it is still a challenge to comprehensively model the conversation, and a majority of conversational…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Jinlong Xue , Yayue Deng , Fengping Wang , Ya Li , Yingming Gao , Jianhua Tao , Jianqing Sun , Jiaen Liang

Scaling Text-to-speech (TTS) to large-scale datasets has been demonstrated as an effective method for improving the diversity and naturalness of synthesized speech. At the high level, previous large-scale TTS models can be categorized into…

Collecting high-quality studio recordings of audio is challenging, which limits the language coverage of text-to-speech (TTS) systems. This paper proposes a framework for scaling a multilingual TTS model to 100+ languages using found data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Takaaki Saeki , Gary Wang , Nobuyuki Morioka , Isaac Elias , Kyle Kastner , Fadi Biadsy , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Heiga Zen , Françoise Beaufays , Hadar Shemtov

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved great success in Speech-to-Text Translation (S2TT) tasks. However, current research is constrained by two key challenges: language coverage and efficiency. Most of the popular S2TT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yexing Du , Kaiyuan Liu , Youcheng Pan , Bo Yang , Keqi Deng , Xie Chen , Yang Xiang , Ming Liu , Bing Qin , YaoWei Wang

We introduce fairseq S2T, a fairseq extension for speech-to-text (S2T) modeling tasks such as end-to-end speech recognition and speech-to-text translation. It follows fairseq's careful design for scalability and extensibility. We provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Changhan Wang , Yun Tang , Xutai Ma , Anne Wu , Sravya Popuri , Dmytro Okhonko , Juan Pino

Recent work in speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has focused primarily on offline settings, where the full input utterance is available before any output is given. This, however, is not reasonable in many real-world scenarios. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Liam Dugan , Anshul Wadhawan , Kyle Spence , Chris Callison-Burch , Morgan McGuire , Victor Zordan

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

We present a TTS neural network that is able to produce speech in multiple languages. The proposed network is able to transfer a voice, which was presented as a sample in a source language, into one of several target languages. Training is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

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

Recent advances in generative language modeling applied to discrete speech tokens presented a new avenue for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. These speech language models (SLMs), similarly to their textual counterparts, are scalable,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Siyang Wang , Éva Székely

Different languages have distinct phonetic systems and vary in their prosodic features making it challenging to develop a Text-to-Speech (TTS) model that can effectively synthesise speech in multilingual settings. Furthermore, TTS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yingting Li , Ambuj Mehrish , Bryan Chew , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

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

This paper presents a method for end-to-end cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) which aims to preserve the target language's pronunciation regardless of the original speaker's language. The model used is based on a non-attentive Tacotron…

End-to-end TTS requires a large amount of speech/text paired data to cover all necessary knowledge, particularly how to pronounce different words in diverse contexts, so that a neural model may learn such knowledge accordingly. But in real…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Mutian He , Jingzhou Yang , Lei He , Frank K. Soong

Controllable TTS models with natural language prompts often lack the ability for fine-grained control and face a scarcity of high-quality data. We propose a two-stage style-controllable TTS system with language models, utilizing a quantized…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yongqi Wang , Chunlei Zhang , Hangting Chen , Zhou Zhao , Dong Yu

This work presents a lifelong learning approach to train a multilingual Text-To-Speech (TTS) system, where each language was seen as an individual task and was learned sequentially and continually. It does not require pooled data from all…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-20 Mu Yang , Shaojin Ding , Tianlong Chen , Tong Wang , Zhangyang Wang
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