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This paper presents an end-to-end text-to-speech system with low latency on a CPU, suitable for real-time applications. The system is composed of an autoregressive attention-based sequence-to-sequence acoustic model and the LPCNet vocoder…

The state-of-the-art in text-to-speech synthesis has recently improved considerably due to novel neural waveform generation methods, such as WaveNet. However, these methods suffer from their slow sequential inference process, while their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-31 Lauri Juvela , Bajibabu Bollepalli , Junichi Yamagishi , Paavo Alku

We present Deep Voice, a production-quality text-to-speech system constructed entirely from deep neural networks. Deep Voice lays the groundwork for truly end-to-end neural speech synthesis. The system comprises five major building blocks:…

We present a methodology to train our multi-speaker emotional text-to-speech synthesizer that can express speech for 10 speakers' 7 different emotions. All silences from audio samples are removed prior to learning. This results in fast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Sungjae Cho , Soo-Young Lee

Recent advances in neural network -based text-to-speech have reached human level naturalness in synthetic speech. The present sequence-to-sequence models can directly map text to mel-spectrogram acoustic features, which are convenient for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Lauri Juvela , Bajibabu Bollepalli , Junichi Yamagishi , Paavo Alku

Text to speech (TTS) has made rapid progress in both academia and industry in recent years. Some questions naturally arise that whether a TTS system can achieve human-level quality, how to define/judge that quality and how to achieve it. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Xu Tan , Jiawei Chen , Haohe Liu , Jian Cong , Chen Zhang , Yanqing Liu , Xi Wang , Yichong Leng , Yuanhao Yi , Lei He , Frank Soong , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

In this work, we present an end-to-end binaural speech synthesis system that combines a low-bitrate audio codec with a powerful binaural decoder that is capable of accurate speech binauralization while faithfully reconstructing…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Wen Chin Huang , Dejan Markovic , Alexander Richard , Israel Dejene Gebru , Anjali Menon

The task of synthetic speech generation is to generate language content from a given text, then simulating fake human voice.The key factors that determine the effect of synthetic speech generation mainly include speed of generation,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Sheng Zhao , Qilong Yuan , Yibo Duan , Zhuoyue Chen

With the popularity of deep neural network, speech synthesis task has achieved significant improvements based on the end-to-end encoder-decoder framework in the recent days. More and more applications relying on speech synthesis technology…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Dongyang Dai , Li Chen , Yuping Wang , Mu Wang , Rui Xia , Xuchen Song , Zhiyong Wu , Yuxuan Wang

End-to-end speech recognition systems have achieved competitive results compared to traditional systems. However, the complex transformations involved between layers given highly variable acoustic signals are hard to analyze. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Chung-Yi Li , Pei-Chieh Yuan , Hung-Yi Lee

Speech is a means of communication which relies on both audio and visual information. The absence of one modality can often lead to confusion or misinterpretation of information. In this paper we present an end-to-end temporal model capable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-17 Konstantinos Vougioukas , Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

We describe a sequence-to-sequence neural network which directly generates speech waveforms from text inputs. The architecture extends the Tacotron model by incorporating a normalizing flow into the autoregressive decoder loop. Output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ron J. Weiss , RJ Skerry-Ryan , Eric Battenberg , Soroosh Mariooryad , Diederik P. Kingma

This paper introduces WaveGrad 2, a non-autoregressive generative model for text-to-speech synthesis. WaveGrad 2 is trained to estimate the gradient of the log conditional density of the waveform given a phoneme sequence. The model takes an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Nanxin Chen , Yu Zhang , Heiga Zen , Ron J. Weiss , Mohammad Norouzi , Najim Dehak , William Chan

Machine recognition of an atypical speech like whispered speech, is a challenging task. We introduce whisper-to-natural-speech conversion using sequence-to-sequence approach by proposing enhanced transformer architecture, which uses both…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Abhishek Niranjan , Mukesh Sharma , Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha , M Ali Basha Shaik

Data availability is crucial for advancing artificial intelligence applications, including voice-based technologies. As content creation, particularly in social media, experiences increasing demand, translation and text-to-speech (TTS)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Ahmet Gunduz , Kamer Ali Yuksel , Kareem Darwish , Golara Javadi , Fabio Minazzi , Nicola Sobieski , Sebastien Bratieres

End-to-end neural TTS has achieved superior performance on reading style speech synthesis. However, it's still a challenge to build a high-quality conversational TTS due to the limitations of the corpus and modeling capability. This study…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Haohan Guo , Shaofei Zhang , Frank K. Soong , Lei He , Lei Xie

Expressive speech synthesis requires vibrant prosody and well-timed pauses. We propose an effective strategy to augment a small dataset to train an expressive end-to-end Text-to-Speech model. We merge audios of emotionally congruent text…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Raymond Chung

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

Video-to-speech synthesis is the task of reconstructing the speech signal from a silent video of a speaker. Most established approaches to date involve a two-step process, whereby an intermediate representation from the video, such as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Triantafyllos Kefalas , Yannis Panagakis , Maja Pantic

Speech synthesis is an important practical generative modeling problem that has seen great progress over the last few years, with likelihood-based autoregressive neural models now outperforming traditional concatenative systems. A downside…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Alexey A. Gritsenko , Tim Salimans , Rianne van den Berg , Jasper Snoek , Nal Kalchbrenner