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Incorporating cross-speaker style transfer in text-to-speech (TTS) models is challenging due to the need to disentangle speaker and style information in audio. In low-resource expressive data scenarios, voice conversion (VC) can generate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Lucas H. Ueda , Leonardo B. de M. M. Marques , Flávio O. Simões , Mário U. Neto , Fernando Runstein , Bianca Dal Bó , Paula D. P. Costa

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 years have witnessed a trend that large language model (LLM) based text-to-speech (TTS) emerges into the mainstream due to their high naturalness and zero-shot capacity. In this paradigm, speech signals are discretized into token…

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems typically require high-quality studio data and accurate transcriptions for training. India has 1369 languages, with 22 official using 13 scripts. Training a TTS system for all these languages, most of which have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Utkarsh Pathak , Chandra Sai Krishna Gunda , Anusha Prakash , Keshav Agarwal , Hema A. Murthy

Text-to-speech (TTS) technology has achieved impressive results for widely spoken languages, yet many under-resourced languages remain challenged by limited data and linguistic complexities. In this paper, we present a novel methodology…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Yizhong Geng , Jizhuo Xu , Zeyu Liang , Jinghan Yang , Xiaoyi Shi , Xiaoyu Shen

The difficulty of acquiring abundant, high-quality data, especially in multi-lingual contexts, has sparked interest in addressing low-resource scenarios. Moreover, current literature rely on fixed expressions from language IDs, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Youngjae Kim , Yejin Jeon , Gary Geunbae Lee

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

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…

End-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) has shown great success on large quantities of paired text plus speech data. However, laborious data collection remains difficult for at least 95% of the languages over the world, which hinders the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Tao Tu , Yuan-Jui Chen , Cheng-chieh Yeh , Hung-yi Lee

In previous work, we developed a closed-loop speech chain model based on deep learning, in which the architecture enabled the automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) components to mutually improve their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

This paper presents an accented text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis framework with limited training data. We study two aspects concerning accent rendering: phonetic (phoneme difference) and prosodic (pitch pattern and phoneme duration)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Xuehao Zhou , Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Zhizheng Wu , Haizhou Li

Customizable multilingual zero-shot singing voice synthesis (SVS) has various potential applications in music composition and short video dubbing. However, existing SVS models overly depend on phoneme and note boundary annotations, limiting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Yu Zhang , Wenxiang Guo , Changhao Pan , Dongyu Yao , Zhiyuan Zhu , Ziyue Jiang , Yuhan Wang , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

On account of growing demands for personalization, the need for a so-called few-shot TTS system that clones speakers with only a few data is emerging. To address this issue, we propose Attentron, a few-shot TTS model that clones voices of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Seungwoo Choi , Seungju Han , Dongyoung Kim , Sungjoo Ha

This paper proposes a speech synthesis system that allows users to specify and control the acoustic characteristics of a speaker by means of prompts describing the speaker's traits of synthesized speech. Unlike previous approaches, our…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Zhengyang Chen , Xuechen Liu , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi , Yanmin Qian

This paper proposes a new architecture for speaker adaptation of multi-speaker neural-network speech synthesis systems, in which an unseen speaker's voice can be built using a relatively small amount of speech data without transcriptions.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-21 Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi

Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) powered by language models have showcased remarkable capabilities in achieving naturalness and zero-shot voice cloning. Notably, the decoder-only transformer is the prominent architecture in this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Théodor Lemerle , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

Adapting a neural text-to-speech (TTS) model to a target speaker typically involves fine-tuning most if not all of the parameters of a pretrained multi-speaker backbone model. However, serving hundreds of fine-tuned neural TTS models is…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Nobuyuki Morioka , Heiga Zen , Nanxin Chen , Yu Zhang , Yifan Ding

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize voices with unseen speech prompts, which significantly reduces the data and computation requirements for voice cloning by skipping the fine-tuning process. However, the prompting mechanisms…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Ziyue Jiang , Jinglin Liu , Yi Ren , Jinzheng He , Zhenhui Ye , Shengpeng Ji , Qian Yang , Chen Zhang , Pengfei Wei , Chunfeng Wang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

The diversity of speaker profiles in multi-speaker TTS systems is a crucial aspect of its performance, as it measures how many different speaker profiles TTS systems could possibly synthesize. However, this important aspect is often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Jie Pu , Yixiong Meng , Oguz Elibol

YourTTS brings the power of a multilingual approach to the task of zero-shot multi-speaker TTS. Our method builds upon the VITS model and adds several novel modifications for zero-shot multi-speaker and multilingual training. We achieved…