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Modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems are able to generate audio that sounds almost as natural as human speech. However, the bar of developing high-quality TTS systems remains high since a sizable set of studio-quality <text, audio> pairs is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Wei Fang , Yu-An Chung , James Glass

Incremental text-to-speech, also known as streaming TTS, has been increasingly applied to online speech applications that require ultra-low response latency to provide an optimal user experience. However, most of the existing speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Muyang Du , Chuan Liu , Jiaxing Qi , Junjie Lai

Speech-to-text alignment is a critical component of neural textto-speech (TTS) models. Autoregressive TTS models typically use an attention mechanism to learn these alignments on-line. However, these alignments tend to be brittle and often…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Rohan Badlani , Adrian Łancucki , Kevin J. Shih , Rafael Valle , Wei Ping , Bryan Catanzaro

This research paper presents a comprehensive review-based study on various Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies. TTS technology is an important aspect of human-computer interaction, enabling machines to convert written text into audible…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Md. Jalal Uddin Chowdhury , Ashab Hussan

Attention-based end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) is superior to conventional statistical methods in many ways. Transformer-based TTS is one of such successful implementations. While Transformer TTS models the speech frame sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Rui Liu , Berrak Sisman , Haizhou Li

We introduce Seed-TTS, a family of large-scale autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) models capable of generating speech that is virtually indistinguishable from human speech. Seed-TTS serves as a foundation model for speech generation and…

Unconstrained lip-to-speech synthesis aims to generate corresponding speeches from silent videos of talking faces with no restriction on head poses or vocabulary. Current works mainly use sequence-to-sequence models to solve this problem,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Yongqi Wang , Zhou Zhao

Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) has witnessed rapid progress in recent years, where neural methods became capable of producing audios with high naturalness. However, these efforts still suffer from two types of latencies: (a) the {\em…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mingbo Ma , Baigong Zheng , Kaibo Liu , Renjie Zheng , Hairong Liu , Kainan Peng , Kenneth Church , Liang Huang

In recent years, speech generation has seen remarkable progress, now achieving one-shot generation capability that is often virtually indistinguishable from real human voice. Integrating such advancements in speech generation with large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Paweł Budzianowski , Taras Sereda , Tomasz Cichy , Ivan Vulić

Building state-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) systems typically demands millions of hours of proprietary data and complex multi-stage architectures, creating substantial barriers for resource-constrained research teams. In this report, we…

We present Deep Voice 3, a fully-convolutional attention-based neural text-to-speech (TTS) system. Deep Voice 3 matches state-of-the-art neural speech synthesis systems in naturalness while training ten times faster. We scale Deep Voice 3…

Autoregressive (AR) Transformer-based sequence models are known to have difficulty generalizing to sequences longer than those seen during training. When applied to text-to-speech (TTS), these models tend to drop or repeat words or produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Eric Battenberg , RJ Skerry-Ryan , Daisy Stanton , Soroosh Mariooryad , Matt Shannon , Julian Salazar , David Kao

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…

The quadratic complexity of self-attention in Transformer models remains a significant bottleneck for processing long sequences and deploying large language models efficiently. For this approach, there has been significant research into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Spandan Pratyush

The quadratic complexity of attention imposes severe memory and computational bottlenecks on Large Language Model (LLM) inference. This challenge is particularly acute for emerging agentic applications that require processing multi-million…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ceyu Xu , Jiangnan Yu , Yongji Wu , Yuan Xie

The auto-regressive architecture, like GPTs, is widely used in modern Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems. However, it incurs substantial inference time, particularly due to the challenges in the next-token prediction posed by lengthy sequences of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Bohan Li , Hankun Wang , Situo Zhang , Yiwei Guo , Kai Yu

Parallel text-to-speech (TTS) models have recently enabled fast and highly-natural speech synthesis. However, they typically require external alignment models, which are not necessarily optimized for the decoder as they are not jointly…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Bac Nguyen , Fabien Cardinaux , Stefan Uhlich

Non-autoregressive text to speech (TTS) models such as FastSpeech can synthesize speech significantly faster than previous autoregressive models with comparable quality. The training of FastSpeech model relies on an autoregressive teacher…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Yi Ren , Chenxu Hu , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Zhou Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Although diffusion-based, non-autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems have demonstrated impressive zero-shot synthesis capabilities, their efficacy is still hindered by two key challenges: the difficulty of text-speech alignment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Chunyat Wu , Jiajun Deng , Zhengxi Liu , Zheqi Dai , Haolin He , Qiuqiang Kong

This study aims at designing an environment-aware text-to-speech (TTS) system that can generate speech to suit specific acoustic environments. It is also motivated by the desire to leverage massive data of speech audio from heterogeneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Daxin Tan , Guangyan Zhang , Tan Lee