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Reference-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) models can generate multiple, prosodically-different renditions of the same target text. Such models jointly learn a latent acoustic space during training, which can be sampled from during inference.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Atli Thor Sigurgeirsson , Simon King

For articulatory-to-acoustic mapping, typically only limited parallel training data is available, making it impossible to apply fully end-to-end solutions like Tacotron2. In this paper, we experimented with transfer learning and adaptation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Csaba Zainkó , László Tóth , Amin Honarmandi Shandiz , Gábor Gosztolya , Alexandra Markó , Géza Németh , Tamás Gábor Csapó

Recent advances in synthetic speech quality have enabled us to train text-to-speech (TTS) systems by using synthetic corpora. However, merely increasing the amount of synthetic data is not always advantageous for improving training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Eunwoo Song , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Ohsung Kwon , Chan-Ho Song , Min-Jae Hwang , Suhyeon Oh , Hyun-Wook Yoon , Jin-Seob Kim , Jae-Min Kim

In this paper, we develop a new multi-singer Chinese neural singing voice synthesis (SVS) system named WeSinger. To improve the accuracy and naturalness of synthesized singing voice, we design several specifical modules and techniques: 1) A…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zewang Zhang , Yibin Zheng , Xinhui Li , Li Lu

We propose a highly controllable voice manipulation system that can perform any-to-any voice conversion (VC) and prosody modulation simultaneously. State-of-the-art VC systems can transfer sentence-level characteristics such as speaker,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Kyungguen Byun , Sunkuk Moon , Erik Visser

High-fidelity speech can be synthesized by end-to-end text-to-speech models in recent years. However, accessing and controlling speech attributes such as speaker identity, prosody, and emotion in a text-to-speech system remains a challenge.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Zexin Cai , Chuxiong Zhang , Ming Li

This paper presents ByteSing, a Chinese singing voice synthesis (SVS) system based on duration allocated Tacotron-like acoustic models and WaveRNN neural vocoders. Different from the conventional SVS models, the proposed ByteSing employs…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Yu Gu , Xiang Yin , Yonghui Rao , Yuan Wan , Benlai Tang , Yang Zhang , Jitong Chen , Yuxuan Wang , Zejun Ma

Previous work on speaker adaptation for end-to-end speech synthesis still falls short in speaker similarity. We investigate an orthogonal approach to the current speaker adaptation paradigms, speaker augmentation, by creating artificial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Erica Cooper , Cheng-I Lai , Yusuke Yasuda , Junichi Yamagishi

This paper integrates graph-to-sequence into an end-to-end text-to-speech framework for syntax-aware modelling with syntactic information of input text. Specifically, the input text is parsed by a dependency parsing module to form a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jianzong Wang , Xulong Zhang , Aolan Sun , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

We propose a linear prediction (LP)-based waveform generation method via WaveNet vocoding framework. A WaveNet-based neural vocoder has significantly improved the quality of parametric text-to-speech (TTS) systems. However, it is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Min-Jae Hwang , Frank Soong , Eunwoo Song , Xi Wang , Hyeonjoo Kang , Hong-Goo Kang

This paper proposes an expressive singing voice synthesis system by introducing explicit vibrato modeling and latent energy representation. Vibrato is essential to the naturalness of synthesized sound, due to the inherent characteristics of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yingjie Song , Wei Song , Wei Zhang , Zhengchen Zhang , Dan Zeng , Zhi Liu , Yang Yu

Recent advances in singing voice synthesis (SVS) have attracted substantial attention from both academia and industry. With the advent of large language models and novel generative paradigms, producing controllable, high-fidelity singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Changhao Pan , Dongyu Yao , Yu Zhang , Wenxiang Guo , Jingyu Lu , Zhiyuan Zhu , Zhou Zhao

In recent years, neural network based methods for multi-speaker text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) have made significant progress. However, the current speaker encoder models used in these methods still cannot capture enough speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jinlong Xue , Yayue Deng , Yichen Han , Ya Li , Jianqing Sun , Jiaen Liang

Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis faces the inherent challenge of producing multiple speech outputs with varying prosody given a single text input. While previous research has addressed this by predicting prosodic information from both text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shumin Que , Anton Ragni

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

Transformer-based text to speech (TTS) model (e.g., Transformer TTS~\cite{li2019neural}, FastSpeech~\cite{ren2019fastspeech}) has shown the advantages of training and inference efficiency over RNN-based model (e.g.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Mingjian Chen , Xu Tan , Yi Ren , Jin Xu , Hao Sun , Sheng Zhao , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

We propose a neural text-to-speech (TTS) model that can imitate a new speaker's voice using only a small amount of speech sample. We demonstrate voice imitation using only a 6-seconds long speech sample without any other information such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Younggun Lee , Taesu Kim , Soo-Young Lee

Cross-lingual voice conversion (VC) is an important and challenging problem due to significant mismatches of the phonetic set and the speech prosody of different languages. In this paper, we build upon the neural text-to-speech (TTS) model,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Shengkui Zhao , Hao Wang , Trung Hieu Nguyen , Bin Ma

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…

Novel text-to-speech systems can generate entirely new voices that were not seen during training. However, it remains a difficult task to efficiently create personalized voices from a high-dimensional speaker space. In this work, we use…