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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

Personalizing a speech synthesis system is a highly desired application, where the system can generate speech with the user's voice with rare enrolled recordings. There are two main approaches to build such a system in recent works: speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Sung-Feng Huang , Chyi-Jiunn Lin , Da-Rong Liu , Yi-Chen Chen , Hung-yi Lee

Training a text-to-speech (TTS) model requires a large scale text labeled speech corpus, which is troublesome to collect. In this paper, we propose a transfer learning framework for TTS that utilizes a large amount of unlabeled speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Minchan Kim , Myeonghun Jeong , Byoung Jin Choi , Sunghwan Ahn , Joun Yeop Lee , Nam Soo Kim

Deep learning models are becoming predominant in many fields of machine learning. Text-to-Speech (TTS), the process of synthesizing artificial speech from text, is no exception. To this end, a deep neural network is usually trained using a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Giuseppe Ruggiero , Enrico Zovato , Luigi Di Caro , Vincent Pollet

We introduce SupertonicTTS, a novel text-to-speech (TTS) system designed for efficient and streamlined speech synthesis. SupertonicTTS comprises three components: a speech autoencoder for continuous latent representation, a text-to-latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Hyeongju Kim , Jinhyeok Yang , Yechan Yu , Seunghun Ji , Jacob Morton , Frederik Bous , Joon Byun , Juheon Lee

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

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

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems that scale up the amount of training data have achieved significant improvements in zero-shot speech synthesis. However, these systems have certain limitations: they require a large amount of training data,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Taejun Bak , Youngsik Eom , SeungJae Choi , Young-Sun Joo

We introduce SPEAR-TTS, a multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) system that can be trained with minimal supervision. By combining two types of discrete speech representations, we cast TTS as a composition of two sequence-to-sequence tasks:…

The task of few-shot style transfer for voice cloning in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims at transferring speaking styles of an arbitrary source speaker to a target speaker's voice using very limited amount of neutral data. This is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Songxiang Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu

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

Neural-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems achieve very high-fidelity speech generation because of the rapid neural network developments. However, the huge labeled corpus and high computation cost requirements limit the possibility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Yi-Chiao Wu , Patrick Lumban Tobing , Kazuki Yasuhara , Noriyuki Matsunaga , Yamato Ohtani , Tomoki Toda

Producing synthetic voice, similar to human-like sound, is an emerging novelty of modern interactive media systems. Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems try to generate synthetic and authentic voices via text input. Besides, well known and familiar…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Mohammad Reza Hasanabadi

We propose VoiceTailor, a parameter-efficient speaker-adaptive text-to-speech (TTS) system, by equipping a pre-trained diffusion-based TTS model with a personalized adapter. VoiceTailor identifies pivotal modules that benefit from the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Heeseung Kim , Sang-gil Lee , Jiheum Yeom , Che Hyun Lee , Sungwon Kim , Sungroh Yoon

We present a speaker conditioned text-to-speech (TTS) system aimed at addressing challenges in generating speech for unseen speakers and supporting diverse Indian languages. Our method leverages a diffusion-based TTS architecture, where a…

Recently, deep learning-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have achieved high-quality speech synthesis results. Recurrent neural networks have become a standard modeling technique for sequential data in TTS systems and are widely used.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ziqi Liang , Haoxiang Shi , Jiawei Wang , Keda Lu

Speech synthesis technology has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, enabling the creation of natural and expressive synthetic speech. One area of particular interest is the generation of synthetic child speech, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Rishabh Jain , Peter Corcoran

Traditional voice conversion (VC) methods typically attempt to separate speaker identity and linguistic information into distinct representations, which are then combined to reconstruct the audio. However, effectively disentangling these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Huu Tuong Tu , Huan Vu , cuong tien nguyen , Dien Hy Ngo , Nguyen Thi Thu Trang

While neural text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved human-like natural synthetic speech, multilingual TTS systems are limited to resource-rich languages due to the need for paired text and studio-quality audio data. This paper proposes a method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Takaaki Saeki , Soumi Maiti , Xinjian Li , Shinji Watanabe , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) are two different tasks both aiming at generating high quality speaking voice according to different input modality. Due to their similarity, this paper proposes UnifySpeech, which brings TTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Haogeng Liu , Tao Wang , Ruibo Fu , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao