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Typical high quality text-to-speech (TTS) systems today use a two-stage architecture, with a spectrum model stage that generates spectral frames and a vocoder stage that generates the actual audio. High-quality spectrum models usually…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Qing He , Zhiping Xiu , Thilo Koehler , Jilong Wu

Recent advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology have led to natural-sounding speech for English, primarily due to the availability of large-scale, high-quality web data. However, many other languages lack access to such resources,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Srija Anand , Praveen Srinivasa Varadhan , Mehak Singal , Mitesh M. Khapra

With rapid progress in neural text-to-speech (TTS) models, personalized speech generation is now in high demand for many applications. For practical applicability, a TTS model should generate high-quality speech with only a few audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Dongchan Min , Dong Bok Lee , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

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

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

We introduce a technique for augmenting neural text-to-speech (TTS) with lowdimensional trainable speaker embeddings to generate different voices from a single model. As a starting point, we show improvements over the two state-ofthe-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Sercan Arik , Gregory Diamos , Andrew Gibiansky , John Miller , Kainan Peng , Wei Ping , Jonathan Raiman , Yanqi Zhou

This paper proposes speaker-adaptive neural vocoders for parametric text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Recently proposed WaveNet-based neural vocoding systems successfully generate a time sequence of speech signal with an autoregressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Eunwoo Song , Jin-Seob Kim , Kyungguen Byun , Hong-Goo Kang

High-quality Text-to-Speech (TTS) model training requires extensive and diverse text and speech data. It is challenging to procure such data from real sources due to issues of domain specificity, licensing, and scalability. Large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Karan Dua , Puneet Mittal , Ranjeet Gupta , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel

This paper presents TTSOps, a fully automated closed-loop framework for constructing multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) systems from noisy, uncurated web-scale speech data, often referred to as ``dark data,'' such as online videos.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Kentaro Seki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Takaaki Saeki , Hiroshi Saruwatari

The construction of high-quality datasets is a cornerstone of modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems. However, the increasing scale of available data poses significant challenges, including storage constraints. To address these issues, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Kentaro Seki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Takaaki Saeki , Hiroshi Saruwatari

We propose a novel two-stage text-to-speech (TTS) framework with two types of discrete tokens, i.e., semantic and acoustic tokens, for high-fidelity speech synthesis. It features two core components: the Interpreting module, which processes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Joun Yeop Lee , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Ji-Hyun Lee , Hoon-Young Cho , Nam Soo Kim

Publicly available TTS datasets for low-resource languages like Hindi and Tamil typically contain 10-20 hours of data, leading to poor vocabulary coverage. This limitation becomes evident in downstream applications where domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Srija Anand , Praveen Srinivasa Varadhan , Ashwin Sankar , Giri Raju , Mitesh M. Khapra

Training state-of-the-art large language models requires vast amounts of clean and diverse textual data. However, building suitable multilingual datasets remains a challenge. In this work, we present HPLT v2, a collection of high-quality…

Most Zero-shot Multi-speaker TTS (ZS-TTS) systems support only a single language. Although models like YourTTS, VALL-E X, Mega-TTS 2, and Voicebox explored Multilingual ZS-TTS they are limited to just a few high/medium resource languages,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Edresson Casanova , Kelly Davis , Eren Gölge , Görkem Göknar , Iulian Gulea , Logan Hart , Aya Aljafari , Joshua Meyer , Reuben Morais , Samuel Olayemi , Julian Weber

Traditional vocoder-based statistical parametric speech synthesis can be advantageous in applications that require low computational complexity. Recent neural vocoders, which can produce high naturalness, still cannot fulfill the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Ali Raheem Mandeel , Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi , Tamás Gábor Csapó

Text-to-Speech (TTS) models can generate natural, human-like speech across multiple languages by transforming phonemes into waveforms. However, multilingual TTS remains challenging due to discrepancies in phoneme vocabularies and variations…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Haowei Lou , Hye-young Paik , Sheng Li , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

Synthesizing the voices of unseen speakers remains a persisting challenge in multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS). Existing methods model speaker characteristics through speaker conditioning during training, leading to increased model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Shreeram Suresh Chandra , Junchen Lu , Berrak Sisman

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…

Zero-shot multi-speaker Text-to-Speech (TTS) generates target speaker voices given an input text and the corresponding speaker embedding. In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of the TTS reconstruction objective to improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Jaejin Cho , Piotr Zelasko , Jesus Villalba , Shinji Watanabe , Najim Dehak

There has been a significant progress in Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis technology in recent years, thanks to the advancement in neural generative modeling. However, existing methods on any-speaker adaptive TTS have achieved unsatisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Minki Kang , Dongchan Min , Sung Ju Hwang