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In this work, we propose a joint system combining a talking face generation system with a text-to-speech system that can generate multilingual talking face videos from only the text input. Our system can synthesize natural multilingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Hyoung-Kyu Song , Sang Hoon Woo , Junhyeok Lee , Seungmin Yang , Hyunjae Cho , Youseong Lee , Dongho Choi , Kang-wook Kim

In recent years, speech generation has seen remarkable progress, now achieving one-shot generation capability that is often virtually indistinguishable from real human voice. Integrating such advancements in speech generation with large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Paweł Budzianowski , Taras Sereda , Tomasz Cichy , Ivan Vulić

We present a meta-learning approach for adaptive text-to-speech (TTS) with few data. During training, we learn a multi-speaker model using a shared conditional WaveNet core and independent learned embeddings for each speaker. The aim of…

Recent studies have outlined the accessibility challenges faced by blind or visually impaired, and less-literate people, in interacting with social networks, in-spite of facilitating technologies such as monotone text-to-speech (TTS) screen…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Suparna De , Ionut Bostan , Nishanth Sastry

Mindfulness-based therapies have been shown to be effective in improving mental health, and technology-based methods have the potential to expand the accessibility of these therapies. To enable real-time personalized content generation for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zhonghao Shi , Han Chen , Anna-Maria Velentza , Siqi Liu , Nathaniel Dennler , Allison O'Connell , Maja Matarić

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

The recent text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved quality comparable to that of humans; however, its application in spoken dialogue has not been widely studied. This study aims to realize a TTS that closely resembles human dialogue. First, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Kentaro Mitsui , Tianyu Zhao , Kei Sawada , Yukiya Hono , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Controllable TTS models with natural language prompts often lack the ability for fine-grained control and face a scarcity of high-quality data. We propose a two-stage style-controllable TTS system with language models, utilizing a quantized…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yongqi Wang , Chunlei Zhang , Hangting Chen , Zhou Zhao , Dong Yu

This paper discusses the task of face-based speech synthesis, a kind of personalized speech synthesis where the synthesized voices are constrained to perceptually match with a reference face image. Due to the lack of TTS-quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Yao Shi , Yunfei Xu , Hongbin Suo , Yulong Wan , Haifeng Liu

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

Recent advances in Text-To-Speech (TTS) technology have enabled synthetic speech to mimic human voices with remarkable realism, raising significant security concerns. This underscores the need for traceable TTS models-systems capable of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yuxiang Zhao , Yunchong Xiao , Yushen Chen , Zhikang Niu , Shuai Wang , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Talking face generation has gained immense popularity in the computer vision community, with various applications including AR, VR, teleconferencing, digital assistants, and avatars. Traditional methods are mainly audio-driven, which have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Xingjian Diao , Ming Cheng , Wayner Barrios , SouYoung Jin

Generating speech across different accents while preserving speaker identity is crucial for various real-world applications. However, accurately and independently modeling both speaker and accent characteristics in text-to-speech (TTS)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Xuehao Zhou , Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Zhizheng Wu , Haizhou Li

We aim to characterize how different speakers contribute to the perceived output quality of multi-speaker Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis. We automatically rate the quality of TTS using a neural network (NN) trained on human mean opinion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jennifer Williams , Joanna Rownicka , Pilar Oplustil , Simon King

Voice design from natural language aims to generate speaker timbres directly from free-form textual descriptions, allowing users to create voices tailored to specific roles, personalities, and emotions. Such controllable voice creation…

Currently, many multi-speaker speech synthesis and voice conversion systems address speaker variations with an embedding vector. Modeling it directly allows new voices outside of training data to be synthesized. GMM based approaches such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yao Shi , Ming Li

The trend of scaling up speech generation models poses a threat of biometric information leakage of the identities of the voices in the training data, raising privacy and security concerns. In this paper, we investigate training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Wen-Chin Huang , Yi-Chiao Wu , Tomoki Toda

Learning-based Text To Speech systems have the potential to generalize from one speaker to the next and thus require a relatively short sample of any new voice. However, this promise is currently largely unrealized. We present a method that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Eliya Nachmani , Adam Polyak , Yaniv Taigman , Lior Wolf

Creating realistic and natural-sounding synthetic speech remains a big challenge for voice identities unseen during training. As there is growing interest in synthesizing voices of new speakers, here we investigate the ability of…

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models utilize additional cues, such as speaker embeddings like d-vectors, to remove background noise and interfering speech in real-time and thus improve the speech quality of online video conferencing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Huaming Wang , Xiaofei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Xuedong Huang