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Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) led to the development of flexible multi-speaker end-to-end TTS systems. We extend state-of-the-art attention-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems with synthetic audio generated by a TTS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Nick Rossenbach , Albert Zeyer , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, such as Tacotron and WaveRNN, have made it possible to construct a fully neural network based TTS system, by coupling the two components together. Such a system is conceptually simple as it…

While neural methods for text-to-speech (TTS) have shown great advances in modeling multiple speakers, even in zero-shot settings, the amount of data needed for those approaches is generally not feasible for the vast majority of the world's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Florian Lux , Julia Koch , Ngoc Thang Vu

Developing high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) systems for low-resource languages is challenging due to the scarcity of paired text and speech data. In contrast, automatic speech recognition (ASR) models for such languages are often more…

State of the art (SOTA) neural text to speech (TTS) models can generate natural-sounding synthetic voices. These models are characterized by large memory footprints and substantial number of operations due to the long-standing focus on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Rowel Atienza

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…

In this paper, we experimented with the SpeechT5 model pre-trained on large-scale datasets. We pre-trained the foundation model from scratch and fine-tuned it on a large-scale robust multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) task. We tested the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Jan Lehečka , Zdeněk Hanzlíček , Jindřich Matoušek , Daniel Tihelka

Transcribed datasets typically contain speaker identity for each instance in the data. We investigate two ways to incorporate this information during training: Multi-Task Learning and Adversarial Learning. In multi-task learning, the goal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Yossi Adi , Neil Zeghidour , Ronan Collobert , Nicolas Usunier , Vitaliy Liptchinsky , Gabriel Synnaeve

Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder often characterized by reduced speech intelligibility through slow, uncoordinated control of speech production muscles. Automatic Speech recognition (ASR) systems may help dysarthric talkers communicate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Mohammad Soleymanpour , Michael T. Johnson , Rahim Soleymanpour , Jeffrey Berry

Current adversarial attack algorithms, where an adversary changes a text to fool a victim model, have been repeatedly shown to be effective against text classifiers. These attacks, however, generally assume that the victim model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Tom Roth , Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Alsharif Abuadbba , Massimo Piccardi

Over the past decade, a series of unflagging efforts have been dedicated to developing highly expressive and controllable text-to-speech (TTS) systems. In general, the holistic TTS comprises two interconnected components: the frontend…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Quanxiu Wang , Hui Huang , Mingjie Wang , Yong Dai , Jinzuomu Zhong , Benlai Tang

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

Recent advances in cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) made it possible to synthesize speech in a language foreign to a monolingual speaker. However, there is still a large gap between the pronunciation of generated cross-lingual speech and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jianhao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Zhiba Su , Wendi He , Kaimeng Ren , Lin Li , Heng Lu

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

Incremental text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis generates utterances in small linguistic units for the sake of real-time and low-latency applications. We previously proposed an incremental TTS method that leverages a large pre-trained language…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Takaaki Saeki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

This work introduces TTS-Transducer - a novel architecture for text-to-speech, leveraging the strengths of audio codec models and neural transducers. Transducers, renowned for their superior quality and robustness in speech recognition, are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Vladimir Bataev , Subhankar Ghosh , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Jason Li

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

In cross-lingual speech synthesis, the speech in various languages can be synthesized for a monoglot speaker. Normally, only the data of monoglot speakers are available for model training, thus the speaker similarity is relatively low…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-21 J. Yang , Lei He

This paper proposes a neural sequence-to-sequence text-to-speech (TTS) model which can control latent attributes in the generated speech that are rarely annotated in the training data, such as speaking style, accent, background noise, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Wei-Ning Hsu , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Heiga Zen , Yonghui Wu , Yuxuan Wang , Yuan Cao , Ye Jia , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathan Shen , Patrick Nguyen , Ruoming Pang

In this paper we investigate cross-lingual Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis through the lens of adapters, in the context of lightweight TTS systems. In particular, we compare the tasks of unseen speaker and language adaptation with the goal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Alessio Falai , Ziyao Zhang , Akos Gangoly