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This paper explores multi-modal controllable Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) where the voice can be generated from face image, and the characteristics of output speech (e.g., pace, noise level, distance, tone, place) can be controllable with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Minsu Kim , Pingchuan Ma , Honglie Chen , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

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

Dysarthric speech exhibits abnormal prosody and significant speaker variability, presenting persistent challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR). While text-to-speech (TTS)-based data augmentation has shown potential, existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minghui Wu , Xueling Liu , Jiahuan Fan , Haitao Tang , Yanyong Zhang , Yue Zhang

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

Recently, synthesizing personalized speech by text-to-speech (TTS) application is highly demanded. But the previous TTS models require a mass of target speaker speeches for training. It is a high-cost task, and hard to record lots of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

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…

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

The zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) method, based on speaker embeddings extracted from reference speech using self-supervised learning (SSL) speech representations, can reproduce speaker characteristics very accurately. However, this…

Speech-to-text translation (ST), which translates source language speech into target language text, has attracted intensive attention in recent years. Compared to the traditional pipeline system, the end-to-end ST model has potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuchen Liu , Jiajun Zhang , Hao Xiong , Long Zhou , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Chengqing Zong

Several high-resource Text to Speech (TTS) systems currently produce natural, well-established human-like speech. In contrast, low-resource languages, including Arabic, have very limited TTS systems due to the lack of resources. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Massa Baali , Tomoki Hayashi , Hamdy Mubarak , Soumi Maiti , Shinji Watanabe , Wassim El-Hajj , Ahmed Ali

Text to speech (TTS) has made rapid progress in both academia and industry in recent years. Some questions naturally arise that whether a TTS system can achieve human-level quality, how to define/judge that quality and how to achieve it. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Xu Tan , Jiawei Chen , Haohe Liu , Jian Cong , Chen Zhang , Yanqing Liu , Xi Wang , Yichong Leng , Yuanhao Yi , Lei He , Frank Soong , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

We present an end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system that generates audio and synchronized tongue motion directly from text. This is achieved by adapting a 3D model of the tongue surface to an articulatory dataset and training a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ingmar Steiner , Sébastien Le Maguer , Alexander Hewer

Controlling speaking style in text-to-speech (TTS) systems has become a growing focus in both academia and industry. While many existing approaches rely on reference audio to guide style generation, such methods are often impractical due to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Haowei Lou , Hye-Young Paik , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

Text-to-Speech (TTS) system is a system where speech is synthesized from a given text following any particular approach. Concatenative synthesis, Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based synthesis, Deep Learning (DL) based synthesis with multiple…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Prithwiraj Bhattacharjee , Rajan Saha Raju , Arif Ahmad , M. Shahidur Rahman

In neural text-to-speech (TTS), two-stage system or a cascade of separately learned models have shown synthesis quality close to human speech. For example, FastSpeech2 transforms an input text to a mel-spectrogram and then HiFi-GAN…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Dan Lim , Sunghee Jung , Eesung Kim

We present a neural text-to-speech (TTS) method that models natural vocal effort variation to improve the intelligibility of synthetic speech in the presence of noise. The method consists of first measuring the spectral tilt of unlabeled…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Tuomo Raitio , Petko Petkov , Jiangchuan Li , Muhammed Shifas , Andrea Davis , Yannis Stylianou

This paper proposes a zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) conditioned by a self-supervised speech-representation model acquired through self-supervised learning (SSL). Conventional methods with embedding vectors from x-vector or global style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kenichi Fujita , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroki Kanagawa , Takafumi Moriya , Yusuke Ijima

Recent trends in neural network based text-to-speech/speech synthesis pipelines have employed recurrent Seq2seq architectures that can synthesize realistic sounding speech directly from text characters. These systems however have complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Gary Wang

Auto-regressive speech-text models pre-trained on interleaved text tokens and discretized speech tokens demonstrate strong speech understanding and generation, yet remain substantially less compute-efficient than text LLMs, partly due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yen-Ju Lu , Yashesh Gaur , Wei Zhou , Benjamin Muller , Jesus Villalba , Najim Dehak , Luke Zettlemoyer , Gargi Ghosh , Mike Lewis , Srinivasan Iyer , Duc Le

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems offer the opportunity to compensate for a hearing loss at the source rather than correcting for it at the receiving end. This removes limitations such as time constraints for algorithms that amplify a sound in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Josef Schlittenlacher , Thomas Baer