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With the similarity between music and speech synthesis from symbolic input and the rapid development of text-to-speech (TTS) techniques, it is worthwhile to explore ways to improve the MIDI-to-audio performance by borrowing from TTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xuan Shi , Erica Cooper , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Shrikanth Narayanan

Custom voice, a specific text to speech (TTS) service in commercial speech platforms, aims to adapt a source TTS model to synthesize personal voice for a target speaker using few speech data. Custom voice presents two unique challenges for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Mingjian Chen , Xu Tan , Bohan Li , Yanqing Liu , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize speeches with human-like tones, moods, or even artistic attributes. Recent advancements in expressive TTS empower users with the ability to directly control synthesis style through natural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Hanglei Zhang , Yiwei Guo , Sen Liu , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

We propose PromptTTS++, a prompt-based text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system that allows control over speaker identity using natural language descriptions. To control speaker identity within the prompt-based TTS framework, we introduce the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Reo Shimizu , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Masaya Kawamura , Yuma Shirahata , Hironori Doi , Tatsuya Komatsu , Kentaro Tachibana

Training a code-switching end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) model normally requires a large amount of data, while code-switching data is often limited. In this paper, three novel approaches are proposed for code-switching data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Chenpeng Du , Hao Li , Yizhou Lu , Lan Wang , Yanmin Qian

Several recently proposed text-to-speech (TTS) models achieved to generate the speech samples with the human-level quality in the single-speaker and multi-speaker TTS scenarios with a set of pre-defined speakers. However, synthesizing a new…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Byoung Jin Choi , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Sung Hwan Mun , Nam Soo Kim

We present a textless speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system that can translate speech from one language into another language and can be built without the need of any text data. Different from existing work in the literature, we tackle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Ann Lee , Hongyu Gong , Paul-Ambroise Duquenne , Holger Schwenk , Peng-Jen Chen , Changhan Wang , Sravya Popuri , Yossi Adi , Juan Pino , Jiatao Gu , Wei-Ning Hsu

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

People may be puzzled by the fact that voice over recordings data sets exist in addition to Text-to-Speech (TTS), Synthesis system advancements, albeit this is not the case. The goal of this study is to explain the relevance of TTS as well…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Hala Al Masri , Muhy Eddin Za'ter

Recent speech technologies have led to produce high quality synthesised speech due to recent advances in neural Text to Speech (TTS). However, such TTS models depend on extensive amounts of data that can be costly to produce and is hardly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Asma Amalas , Mounir Ghogho , Mohamed Chetouani , Rachid Oulad Haj Thami

Speech disorders can make communication hard or even impossible for those who develop them. Personalised Text-to-Speech is an attractive option as a communication aid. We attempt voice reconstruction using a large speech model, with which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Ariadna Sanchez , Simon King

State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) systems realize high naturalness in monolingual environments, synthesizing speech with correct multilingual accents (especially for Indic languages) and context-relevant emotions still poses difficulty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Pranav Pawar , Akshansh Dwivedi , Jenish Boricha , Himanshu Gohil , Aditya Dubey

Audio-driven talking face has attracted broad interest from academia and industry recently. However, data acquisition and labeling in audio-driven talking face are labor-intensive and costly. The lack of data resource results in poor…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Qi Chen , Ziyang Ma , Tao Liu , Xu Tan , Qu Lu , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

We present a methodology to train our multi-speaker emotional text-to-speech synthesizer that can express speech for 10 speakers' 7 different emotions. All silences from audio samples are removed prior to learning. This results in fast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Sungjae Cho , Soo-Young Lee

In this paper, we present a novel architecture to realize fine-grained style control on the transformer-based text-to-speech synthesis (TransformerTTS). Specifically, we model the speaking style by extracting a time sequence of local style…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Li-Wei Chen , Alexander Rudnicky

Many neural text-to-speech architectures can synthesize nearly natural speech from text inputs. These architectures must be trained with tens of hours of annotated and high-quality speech data. Compiling such large databases for every new…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana , Christian Dittmar , Nicola Pia , Emanuël Habets

Current emotional Text-To-Speech (TTS) and style transfer methods rely on reference encoders to control global style or emotion vectors, but do not capture nuanced acoustic details of the reference speech. To this end, we propose a novel…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jianing Yang , Sheng Li , Takahiro Shinozaki , Yuki Saito , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Neural text-to-speech synthesis (NTTS) models have shown significant progress in generating high-quality speech, however they require a large quantity of training data. This makes creating models for multiple styles expensive and…

End-to-end neural TTS has achieved superior performance on reading style speech synthesis. However, it's still a challenge to build a high-quality conversational TTS due to the limitations of the corpus and modeling capability. This study…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Haohan Guo , Shaofei Zhang , Frank K. Soong , Lei He , Lei Xie