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Recent advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have enabled the generation of natural and expressive speech from textual input. Accented TTS aims to enhance user experience by making the synthesized speech more relatable to minority…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Jan Melechovsky , Ambuj Mehrish , Berrak Sisman , Dorien Herremans

We investigate the use of zero-shot text-to-speech (ZS-TTS) as a data augmentation source for low-resource personalized speech synthesis. While synthetic augmentation can provide linguistically rich and phonetically diverse speech, naively…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Youngwon Choi , Jinwoo Oh , Hwayeon Kim , Hyeonyu Kim

This paper explores the use of TTS synthesized training data for KWS (keyword spotting) task while minimizing development cost and time. Keyword spotting models require a huge amount of training data to be accurate, and obtaining such…

In this work we evaluate the utility of synthetic data for training automatic speech recognition (ASR). We use the ASR training data to train a text-to-speech (TTS) system similar to FastSpeech-2. With this TTS we reproduce the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Benedikt Hilmes , Nick Rossenbach , and Ralf Schlüter

We introduce SPEAR-TTS, a multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) system that can be trained with minimal supervision. By combining two types of discrete speech representations, we cast TTS as a composition of two sequence-to-sequence tasks:…

High-fidelity speech can be synthesized by end-to-end text-to-speech models in recent years. However, accessing and controlling speech attributes such as speaker identity, prosody, and emotion in a text-to-speech system remains a challenge.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Zexin Cai , Chuxiong Zhang , Ming Li

Text to speech (TTS) is widely used to synthesize personal voice for a target speaker, where a well-trained source TTS model is fine-tuned with few paired adaptation data (speech and its transcripts) on this target speaker. However, in many…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yuzi Yan , Xu Tan , Bohan Li , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Yuan Shen , Tie-Yan Liu

The rapid growth of voice assistants powered by large language models (LLM) has highlighted a need for speech instruction data to train these systems. Despite the abundance of speech recognition data, there is a notable scarcity of speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Alan Dao , Dinh Bach Vu , Huy Hoang Ha , Tuan Le Duc Anh , Shreyas Gopal , Yue Heng Yeo , Warren Keng Hoong Low , Eng Siong Chng , Jia Qi Yip

Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is the process of producing synthesized speech from text or phoneme input. Traditional TTS models contain multiple processing steps and require external aligners, which provide attention alignments of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Hyunseung Chung , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Recent advances in Text-To-Speech (TTS) technology have enabled synthetic speech to mimic human voices with remarkable realism, raising significant security concerns. This underscores the need for traceable TTS models-systems capable of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yuxiang Zhao , Yunchong Xiao , Yushen Chen , Zhikang Niu , Shuai Wang , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

The end-to-end TTS, which can predict speech directly from a given sequence of graphemes or phonemes, has shown improved performance over the conventional TTS. However, its predicting capability is still limited by the acoustic/phonetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Haohan Guo , Frank K. Soong , Lei He , Lei Xie

Current synthetic speech detection (SSD) methods perform well on certain datasets but still face issues of robustness and interpretability. A possible reason is that these methods do not analyze the deficiencies of synthetic speech. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Yuxiang Zhang , Zhuo Li , Jingze Lu , Wenchao Wang , Pengyuan Zhang

We present MParrotTTS, a unified multilingual, multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis model that can produce high-quality speech. Benefiting from a modularized training paradigm exploiting self-supervised speech representations,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Neil Shah , Vishal Tambrahalli , Saiteja Kosgi , Niranjan Pedanekar , Vineet Gandhi

Several recently proposed text-to-speech (TTS) models achieved to generate the speech samples with the human-level quality in the single-speaker and multi-speaker TTS scenarios with a set of pre-defined speakers. However, synthesizing a new…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Byoung Jin Choi , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Sung Hwan Mun , Nam Soo Kim

Recent speech technologies have led to produce high quality synthesised speech due to recent advances in neural Text to Speech (TTS). However, such TTS models depend on extensive amounts of data that can be costly to produce and is hardly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Asma Amalas , Mounir Ghogho , Mohamed Chetouani , Rachid Oulad Haj Thami

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

Adapting generic speech recognition models to specific individuals is a challenging problem due to the scarcity of personalized data. Recent works have proposed boosting the amount of training data using personalized text-to-speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Karren Yang , Ting-Yao Hu , Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Hema Swetha Koppula , Oncel Tuzel

We propose PromptTTS++, a prompt-based text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system that allows control over speaker identity using natural language descriptions. To control speaker identity within the prompt-based TTS framework, we introduce the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Reo Shimizu , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Masaya Kawamura , Yuma Shirahata , Hironori Doi , Tatsuya Komatsu , Kentaro Tachibana

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

Fine-tuning is a popular method for adapting text-to-speech (TTS) models to new speakers. However this approach has some challenges. Usually fine-tuning requires several hours of high quality speech per speaker. There is also that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Cheng-Ping Hsieh , Subhankar Ghosh , Boris Ginsburg