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As the recently proposed voice cloning system, NAUTILUS, is capable of cloning unseen voices using untranscribed speech, we investigate the feasibility of using it to develop a unified cross-lingual TTS/VC system. Cross-lingual speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-09 Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi

One-shot voice cloning aims to transform speaker voice and speaking style in speech synthesized from a text-to-speech (TTS) system, where only a shot recording from the target reference speech can be used. Out-of-domain transfer is still a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Rui Li , Dong Pu , Minnie Huang , Bill Huang

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

Voice cloning is the task of learning to synthesize the voice of an unseen speaker from a few samples. While current voice cloning methods achieve promising results in Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis for a new voice, these approaches lack…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Paarth Neekhara , Shehzeen Hussain , Shlomo Dubnov , Farinaz Koushanfar , Julian McAuley

We present an open-source system designed for multilingual translation and speech regeneration, addressing challenges in communication and accessibility across diverse linguistic contexts. The system integrates Whisper for speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Mateo Cámara , Juan Gutiérrez , María Pilar Daza , José Luis Blanco

Deep learning models are becoming predominant in many fields of machine learning. Text-to-Speech (TTS), the process of synthesizing artificial speech from text, is no exception. To this end, a deep neural network is usually trained using a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Giuseppe Ruggiero , Enrico Zovato , Luigi Di Caro , Vincent Pollet

Voice cloning is a highly desired feature for personalized speech interfaces. Neural network based speech synthesis has been shown to generate high quality speech for a large number of speakers. In this paper, we introduce a neural voice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Sercan O. Arik , Jitong Chen , Kainan Peng , Wei Ping , Yanqi Zhou

Voice conversion (VC) and text-to-speech (TTS) are two tasks that share a similar objective, generating speech with a target voice. However, they are usually developed independently under vastly different frameworks. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi

With recent advancements in voice cloning, the performance of speech synthesis for a target speaker has been rendered similar to the human level. However, autoregressive voice cloning systems still suffer from text alignment failures,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Artem Gorodetskii , Ivan Ozhiganov

Recently, sequence-to-sequence (seq-to-seq) models have been successfully applied in text-to-speech (TTS) to synthesize speech for single-language text. To synthesize speech for multiple languages usually requires multi-lingual speech from…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Haitong Zhang , Yue Lin

In this work, we introduce a framework for cross-lingual speech synthesis, which involves an upstream Voice Conversion (VC) model and a downstream Text-To-Speech (TTS) model. The proposed framework consists of 4 stages. In the first two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Dariusz Piotrowski , Renard Korzeniowski , Alessio Falai , Sebastian Cygert , Kamil Pokora , Georgi Tinchev , Ziyao Zhang , Kayoko Yanagisawa

Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) technology have increased demand for personalized audio synthesis. Zero-shot voice cloning, a specialized TTS task, aims to synthesize a target speaker's voice using only a single audio sample and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ming Meng , Ziyi Yang , Jian Yang , Zhenjie Su , Yonggui Zhu , Zhaoxin Fan

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

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

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

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

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

Voice cloning is a prominent feature in personalized speech interfaces. A neural vocal cloning system can mimic someone's voice using just a few audio samples. Both speaker encoding and speaker adaptation are topics of research in the field…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Manjil Karki , Pratik Shakya , Sandesh Acharya , Ravi Pandit , Dinesh Gothe

Though significant progress has been made for speaker-dependent Video-to-Speech (VTS) synthesis, little attention is devoted to multi-speaker VTS that can map silent video to speech, while allowing flexible control of speaker identity, all…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Disong Wang , Shan Yang , Dan Su , Xunying Liu , Dong Yu , Helen Meng

Flow-matching-based text-to-speech (TTS) models have shown high-quality speech synthesis. However, most current flow-matching-based TTS models still rely on reference transcripts corresponding to the audio prompt for synthesis. This…

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