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As increasing development of text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) technologies, the detection of synthetic speech has been suffered dramatically. In order to promote the development of synthetic speech detection model against…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Zhenyu Zhang , Yewei Gu , Xiaowei Yi , Xianfeng Zhao

End-to-end speech synthesis is a promising approach that directly converts raw text to speech. Although it was shown that Tacotron2 outperforms classical pipeline systems with regards to naturalness in English, its applicability to other…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-15 Yusuke Yasuda , Xin Wang , Shinji Takaki , Junichi Yamagishi

This study probes the phonetic and phonological knowledge of lexical tones in TTS models through two experiments. Controlled stimuli for testing tonal coarticulation and tone sandhi in Mandarin were fed into Tacotron 2 and WaveGlow to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Jian Zhu

Transfer tasks in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis - where one or more aspects of the speech of one set of speakers is transferred to another set of speakers that do not feature these aspects originally - remains a challenging task. One of…

In this paper, we explore the possibility of speech synthesis from low quality found data using only limited number of samples of target speaker. We try to extract only the speaker embedding from found data of target speaker unlike previous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Sunghee Jung , Hoirin Kim

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

The purpose of this study is to investigate how humans interpret musical scores expressively, and then design machines that sing like humans. We consider six factors that have a strong influence on the expression of human singing. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Ju-Chiang Wang , Hung-Yan Gu , Hsin-Min Wang

Data efficient voice cloning aims at synthesizing target speaker's voice with only a few enrollment samples at hand. To this end, speaker adaptation and speaker encoding are two typical methods based on base model trained from multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Jian Cong , Shan Yang , Lei Xie , Guoqiao Yu , Guanglu Wan

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

This paper presents a multifunctional speech synthesis system that integrates voice cloning and emotion control speech synthesis within a unified framework. The goal of this work is to address longstanding challenges in achieving highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Fengping Tian , Chenyang Lyu , Xuanfan Ni , Haoqin Sun , Qingjuan Li , Zhiqiang Qian , Haijun Li , Longyue Wang , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang

Modern voice cloning, also known as zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), can synthesize speech that closely matches a target speaker from only seconds of reference audio, enabling applications such as personalized speech interfaces and dubbing.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruinan Jin , Xinting Liao , Hanlin Yu , Deval Pandya , Xiaoxiao Li

Flow-matching-based text-to-speech (TTS) models have shown high-quality speech synthesis. However, most current flow-matching-based TTS models still rely on reference transcripts corresponding to the audio prompt for synthesis. This…

There are many use cases in singing synthesis where creating voices from small amounts of data is desirable. In text-to-speech there have been several promising results that apply voice cloning techniques to modern deep learning based…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Ryunosuke Daido

Voice cloning is a difficult task which requires robust and informative features incorporated in a high quality TTS system in order to effectively copy an unseen speaker's voice. In our work, we utilize features learned in a self-supervised…

This paper presents a method for end-to-end cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) which aims to preserve the target language's pronunciation regardless of the original speaker's language. The model used is based on a non-attentive Tacotron…

Advancements in unsupervised machine translation have enabled the development of machine translation systems that can translate between languages for which there is not an abundance of parallel data available. We explored unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Megan Dare , Valentina Fajardo Diaz , Averie Ho Zoen So , Yifan Wang , Shibingfeng Zhang

With recent advancements in voice cloning, the performance of speech synthesis for a target speaker has been rendered similar to the human level. However, autoregressive voice cloning systems still suffer from text alignment failures,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Artem Gorodetskii , Ivan Ozhiganov

With the increasing popularity of speech synthesis products, the industry has put forward more requirements for personalized speech synthesis: (1) How to use low-resource, easily accessible data to clone a person's voice. (2) How to clone a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Dongyang Dai , Yuanzhe Chen , Li Chen , Ming Tu , Lu Liu , Rui Xia , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang

The recent developments in technology have re-warded us with amazing audio synthesis models like TACOTRON and WAVENETS. On the other side, it poses greater threats such as speech clones and deep fakes, that may go undetected. To tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Arun Kumar Singh , Priyanka Singh , Karan Nathwani

Synthetic-voice cloning technologies have seen significant advances in recent years, giving rise to a range of potential harms. From small- and large-scale financial fraud to disinformation campaigns, the need for reliable methods to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Sarah Barrington , Romit Barua , Gautham Koorma , Hany Farid