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We introduce a technique for augmenting neural text-to-speech (TTS) with lowdimensional trainable speaker embeddings to generate different voices from a single model. As a starting point, we show improvements over the two state-ofthe-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Sercan Arik , Gregory Diamos , Andrew Gibiansky , John Miller , Kainan Peng , Wei Ping , Jonathan Raiman , Yanqi Zhou

We describe a neural network-based system for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis that is able to generate speech audio in the voice of many different speakers, including those unseen during training. Our system consists of three independently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Ye Jia , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Quan Wang , Jonathan Shen , Fei Ren , Zhifeng Chen , Patrick Nguyen , Ruoming Pang , Ignacio Lopez Moreno , Yonghui Wu

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems have seen significant advancements in recent years, driven by improvements in deep learning and neural network architectures. Viewing the output speech as a data distribution, previous approaches often employ…

Voice conversion is the task of converting a spoken utterance from a source speaker so that it appears to be said by a different target speaker while retaining the linguistic content of the utterance. Recent advances have led to major…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Matthew Baas , Herman Kamper

We present MParrotTTS, a unified multilingual, multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis model that can produce high-quality speech. Benefiting from a modularized training paradigm exploiting self-supervised speech representations,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Neil Shah , Vishal Tambrahalli , Saiteja Kosgi , Niranjan Pedanekar , Vineet Gandhi

Tibetan is a low-resource language with minimal parallel speech corpora spanning its three major dialects-\"U-Tsang, Amdo, and Kham-limiting progress in speech modeling. To address this issue, we propose FMSD-TTS, a few-shot, multi-speaker,…

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transform source speech into arbitrary unseen target voice while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Recent VC methods have made significant progress, but semantic losses in the decoupling…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Linhan Ma , Xinfa Zhu , Yuanjun Lv , Zhichao Wang , Ziqian Wang , Wendi He , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Xie

Methods for modeling and controlling prosody with acoustic features have been proposed for neural text-to-speech (TTS) models. Prosodic speech can be generated by conditioning acoustic features. However, synthesized speech with a large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Taejun Bak , Jae-Sung Bae , Hanbin Bae , Young-Ik Kim , Hoon-Young Cho

High-quality and intelligible speech is essential to text-to-speech (TTS) model training, however, obtaining high-quality data for low-resource languages is challenging and expensive. Applying speech enhancement on Automatic Speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Zhaoheng Ni , Sravya Popuri , Ning Dong , Kohei Saijo , Xiaohui Zhang , Gael Le Lan , Yangyang Shi , Vikas Chandra , Changhan Wang

Voice directors often iteratively refine voice actors' performances by providing feedback to achieve the desired outcome. While this iterative feedback-based refinement process is important in actual recordings, it has been overlooked in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Hiroki Kanagawa , Kenichi Fujita , Aya Watanabe , Yusuke Ijima

People change their tones of voice, often accompanied by nonverbal vocalizations (NVs) such as laughter and cries, to convey rich emotions. However, most text-to-speech (TTS) systems lack the capability to generate speech with rich…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Haibin Wu , Xiaofei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Manthan Thakker , Daniel Tompkins , Chung-Hsien Tsai , Canrun Li , Zhen Xiao , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li , Naoyuki Kanda

Non-autoregressive text to speech (TTS) models such as FastSpeech can synthesize speech significantly faster than previous autoregressive models with comparable quality. The training of FastSpeech model relies on an autoregressive teacher…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Yi Ren , Chenxu Hu , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Zhou Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

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

Training a multi-speaker Text-to-Speech (TTS) model from scratch is computationally expensive and adding new speakers to the dataset requires the model to be re-trained. The naive solution of sequential fine-tuning of a model for new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Hamed Hemati , Damian Borth

With the popularity of deep neural network, speech synthesis task has achieved significant improvements based on the end-to-end encoder-decoder framework in the recent days. More and more applications relying on speech synthesis technology…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Dongyang Dai , Li Chen , Yuping Wang , Mu Wang , Rui Xia , Xuchen Song , Zhiyong Wu , Yuxuan Wang

This research paper presents a comprehensive review-based study on various Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies. TTS technology is an important aspect of human-computer interaction, enabling machines to convert written text into audible…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Md. Jalal Uddin Chowdhury , Ashab Hussan

Scaling text-to-speech (TTS) to large-scale, multi-speaker, and in-the-wild datasets is important to capture the diversity in human speech such as speaker identities, prosodies, and styles (e.g., singing). Current large TTS systems usually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Kai Shen , Zeqian Ju , Xu Tan , Yanqing Liu , Yichong Leng , Lei He , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Jiang Bian

Although recent neural text-to-speech (TTS) systems have achieved high-quality speech synthesis, there are cases where a TTS system generates low-quality speech, mainly caused by limited training data or information loss during knowledge…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Yeunju Choi , Youngmoon Jung , Youngjoo Suh , Hoirin Kim

We present ParrotTTS, a modularized text-to-speech synthesis model leveraging disentangled self-supervised speech representations. It can train a multi-speaker variant effectively using transcripts from a single speaker. ParrotTTS adapts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Neil Shah , Saiteja Kosgi , Vishal Tambrahalli , Neha Sahipjohn , Niranjan Pedanekar , Vineet Gandhi

Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) technology have increased demand for personalized audio synthesis. Zero-shot voice cloning, a specialized TTS task, aims to synthesize a target speaker's voice using only a single audio sample and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ming Meng , Ziyi Yang , Jian Yang , Zhenjie Su , Yonggui Zhu , Zhaoxin Fan
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