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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

We introduce RapFlow-TTS, a rapid and high-fidelity TTS acoustic model that leverages velocity consistency constraints in flow matching (FM) training. Although ordinary differential equation (ODE)-based TTS generation achieves…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Hyun Joon Park , Jeongmin Liu , Jin Sob Kim , Jeong Yeol Yang , Sung Won Han , Eunwoo Song

In this paper, we propose a text-to-speech (TTS)-driven data augmentation method for improving the quality of a non-autoregressive (AR) TTS system. Recently proposed non-AR models, such as FastSpeech 2, have successfully achieved fast…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Min-Jae Hwang , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Eunwoo Song , Jae-Min Kim

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) can provide quality close to natural speech if an adequate amount of high-quality speech material is available for training. However, acquiring speech data for TTS training is costly and time-consuming,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Tuomo Raitio , Javier Latorre , Andrea Davis , Tuuli Morrill , Ladan Golipour

Tokenising continuous speech into sequences of discrete tokens and modelling them with language models (LMs) has led to significant success in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. Although these models can generate speech with high quality and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Zehai Tu , Guangyan Zhang , Yiting Lu , Adaeze Adigwe , Simon King , Yiwen Guo

There are two types of methods for non-autoregressive text-to-speech models to learn the one-to-many relationship between text and speech effectively. The first one is to use an advanced generative framework such as normalizing flow (NF).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Yoonhyung Lee , Jinhyeok Yang , Kyomin Jung

This work proposes GLM-TTS, a production-level TTS system designed for efficiency, controllability, and high-fidelity speech generation. GLM-TTS follows a two-stage architecture, consisting of a text-to-token autoregressive model and a…

Text-to-image diffusion model is a popular paradigm that synthesizes personalized images by providing a text prompt and a random Gaussian noise. While people observe that some noises are ``golden noises'' that can achieve better text-image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zikai Zhou , Shitong Shao , Lichen Bai , Shufei Zhang , Zhiqiang Xu , Bo Han , Zeke Xie

We present a speaker conditioned text-to-speech (TTS) system aimed at addressing challenges in generating speech for unseen speakers and supporting diverse Indian languages. Our method leverages a diffusion-based TTS architecture, where a…

In the development of neural text-to-speech systems, model pre-training with a large amount of non-target speakers' data is a common approach. However, in terms of ultimately achieved system performance for target speaker(s), the actual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Guangyan Zhang , Yichong Leng , Daxin Tan , Ying Qin , Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao , Tan Lee

With the rapid advancement in deep generative models, recent neural Text-To-Speech(TTS) models have succeeded in synthesizing human-like speech. There have been some efforts to generate speech with various prosody beyond monotonous prosody…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Seongho Joo , Hyukhun Koh , Kyomin Jung

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

Several recent end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) models enabling single-stage training and parallel sampling have been proposed, but their sample quality does not match that of two-stage TTS systems. In this work, we present a parallel…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Jaehyeon Kim , Jungil Kong , Juhee Son

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

Flow-based generative models are widely used in text-to-speech (TTS) systems to learn the distribution of audio features (e.g., Mel-spectrograms) given the input tokens and to sample from this distribution to generate diverse utterances.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Sewade Ogun , Vincent Colotte , Emmanuel Vincent

Diffusion and flow matching TTS faces a tension between discrete temporal structure and continuous spectral modeling. Two-stage models diffuse on fixed alignments, often collapsing to mean prosody; single-stage models avoid explicit…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Jiabao Ai , Minghui Zhao , Anton Ragni

Text to speech (TTS) has been broadly used to synthesize natural and intelligible speech in different scenarios. Deploying TTS in various end devices such as mobile phones or embedded devices requires extremely small memory usage and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Renqian Luo , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Tao Qin , Jinzhu Li , Sheng Zhao , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Modern neural TTS systems are capable of generating natural and expressive speech when provided with sufficient amounts of training data. Such systems can be equipped with prosody-control functionality, allowing for more direct shaping of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Slava Shechtman , Raul Fernandez

With the demand for autonomous control and personalized speech generation, the style control and transfer in Text-to-Speech (TTS) is becoming more and more important. In this paper, we propose a new TTS system that can perform style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Wenhao Guan , Tao Li , Yishuang Li , Hukai Huang , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

Whilst recent neural text-to-speech (TTS) approaches produce high-quality speech, they typically require a large amount of recordings from the target speaker. In previous work, a 3-step method was proposed to generate high-quality TTS while…