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High-fidelity binaural audio synthesis is crucial for immersive listening, but existing methods require extensive computational resources, limiting their edge-device application. To address this, we propose the Lightweight Implicit Neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Xikun Lu , Fang Liu , Weizhi Shi , Jinqiu Sang

Autoregressive (AR) language models have emerged as powerful solutions for zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, capable of generating natural speech from a few seconds of audio prompts. However, conventional AR-based TTS systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Chun Yat Wu , Jiajun Deng , Guinan Li , Qiuqiang Kong , Simon Lui

Text-to-speech (TTS) models have been widely adopted to enhance automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems using text-only corpora, thereby reducing the cost of labeling real speech data. Existing research primarily utilizes additional text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Jiawei Yu , Yuang Li , Xiaosong Qiao , Huan Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhao , Wei Tang , Min Zhang , Hao Yang , Jinsong Su

Timbre spaces have been used in music perception to study the perceptual relationships between instruments based on dissimilarity ratings. However, these spaces do not generalize to novel examples and do not provide an invertible mapping,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Philippe Esling , Axel Chemla--Romeu-Santos , Adrien Bitton

We propose a semi-supervised singing synthesizer, which is able to learn new voices from audio data only, without any annotations such as phonetic segmentation. Our system is an encoder-decoder model with two encoders, linguistic and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Jordi Bonada , Merlijn Blaauw

Recently, there has been a growing interest in text-to-speech (TTS) methods that can be trained with minimal supervision by combining two types of discrete speech representations and using two sequence-to-sequence tasks to decouple TTS.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Hao Ni , He Qu , Ruibo Fu , Tao Wang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Text-to-speech (TTS) has advanced from generating natural-sounding speech to enabling fine-grained control over attributes like emotion, timbre, and style. Driven by rising industrial demand and breakthroughs in deep learning, e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianxin Xie , Yan Rong , Pengfei Zhang , Wenwu Wang , Li Liu

Scaling text-to-speech to a large and wild dataset has been proven to be highly effective in achieving timbre and speech style generalization, particularly in zero-shot TTS. However, previous works usually encode speech into latent using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Ziyue Jiang , Yi Ren , Zhenhui Ye , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Qian Yang , Shengpeng Ji , Rongjie Huang , Chunfeng Wang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

Existing work on pitch and timbre disentanglement has been mostly focused on single-instrument music audio, excluding the cases where multiple instruments are presented. To fill the gap, we propose DisMix, a generative framework in which…

Controllable text-to-speech (TTS) systems face significant challenges in achieving independent manipulation of speaker timbre and speaking style, often suffering from entanglement between these attributes. We present DMP-TTS, a latent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Kang Yin , Chunyu Qiang , Sirui Zhao , Xiaopeng Wang , Yuzhe Liang , Pengfei Cai , Tong Xu , Chen Zhang , Enhong Chen

Neural TTS has shown it can generate high quality synthesized speech. In this paper, we investigate the multi-speaker latent space to improve neural TTS for adapting the system to new speakers with only several minutes of speech or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Yan Deng , Lei He , Frank 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

End-to-end Speech Translation (ST) models have many potential advantages when compared to the cascade of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and text Machine Translation (MT) models, including lowered inference latency and the avoidance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Ye Jia , Melvin Johnson , Wolfgang Macherey , Ron J. Weiss , Yuan Cao , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Naveen Ari , Stella Laurenzo , Yonghui Wu

Integration of audio perception into large language models (LLMs) is an emerging research area for enabling machine listening applications, yet efficient transfer of rich audio semantics from audio encoders to LLMs remains underexplored.…

A new synthesis scheme is proposed to generate a random vector with prescribed joint density that induces a (latent) Gaussian tree structure. The quality of synthesis is shown by vanishing total variation distance between the synthesized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Ali Moharrer , Shuangqing Wei , George T. Amariucai , Jing Deng

The quality of inverse problem solutions obtained through deep learning [Barbastathis et al, 2019] is limited by the nature of the priors learned from examples presented during the training phase. In the case of quantitative phase retrieval…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Mo Deng , Shuai Li , Alexandre Goy , Iksung Kang , George Barbastathis

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

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

Foley sound generation, the art of creating audio for multimedia, has recently seen notable advancements through text-conditioned latent diffusion models. These systems use multimodal text-audio representation models, such as Contrastive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Tornike Karchkhadze , Hassan Salami Kavaki , Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Bryce Irvin , Mikolaj Kegler , Ari Hertz , Shuo Zhang , Marko Stamenovic

The incorporation of Denoising Diffusion Models (DDMs) in the Text-to-Speech (TTS) domain is rising, providing great value in synthesizing high quality speech. Although they exhibit impressive audio quality, the extent of their semantic…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Miri Varshavsky-Hassid , Roy Hirsch , Regev Cohen , Tomer Golany , Daniel Freedman , Ehud Rivlin