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Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) has witnessed rapid progress in recent years, where neural methods became capable of producing audios with high naturalness. However, these efforts still suffer from two types of latencies: (a) the {\em…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mingbo Ma , Baigong Zheng , Kaibo Liu , Renjie Zheng , Hairong Liu , Kainan Peng , Kenneth Church , Liang Huang

Recent advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology have led to natural-sounding speech for English, primarily due to the availability of large-scale, high-quality web data. However, many other languages lack access to such resources,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Srija Anand , Praveen Srinivasa Varadhan , Mehak Singal , Mitesh M. Khapra

While recent text-to-speech (TTS) systems have made remarkable strides toward human-level quality, the performance of cross-lingual TTS lags behind that of intra-lingual TTS. This gap is mainly rooted from the speaker-language entanglement…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ji-Hoon Kim , Hong-Sun Yang , Yoon-Cheol Ju , Il-Hwan Kim , Byeong-Yeol Kim

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis can generate speech that is indistinguishable from natural speech. However, the synthetic speech often represents the average prosodic style of the database instead of having more versatile prosodic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Tuomo Raitio , Jiangchuan Li , Shreyas Seshadri

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

In this work, we address the Text-to-Speech (TTS) task by proposing a non-autoregressive architecture called EfficientTTS. Unlike the dominant non-autoregressive TTS models, which are trained with the need of external aligners, EfficientTTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Chenfeng Miao , Shuang Liang , Zhencheng Liu , Minchuan Chen , Jun Ma , Shaojun Wang , Jing Xiao

This paper proposes a neural sequence-to-sequence text-to-speech (TTS) model which can control latent attributes in the generated speech that are rarely annotated in the training data, such as speaking style, accent, background noise, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Wei-Ning Hsu , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Heiga Zen , Yonghui Wu , Yuxuan Wang , Yuan Cao , Ye Jia , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathan Shen , Patrick Nguyen , Ruoming Pang

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems offer the opportunity to compensate for a hearing loss at the source rather than correcting for it at the receiving end. This removes limitations such as time constraints for algorithms that amplify a sound in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Josef Schlittenlacher , Thomas Baer

The recent progress in non-autoregressive text-to-speech (NAR-TTS) has made fast and high-quality speech synthesis possible. However, current NAR-TTS models usually use phoneme sequence as input and thus cannot understand the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Zhenhui Ye , Zhou Zhao , Yi Ren , Fei Wu

Modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems are able to generate audio that sounds almost as natural as human speech. However, the bar of developing high-quality TTS systems remains high since a sizable set of studio-quality <text, audio> pairs is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Wei Fang , Yu-An Chung , James Glass

Numerous models have shown great success in the fields of speech recognition as well as speech synthesis, but models for speech to speech processing have not been heavily explored. We propose Speech to Speech Synthesis Network (STSSN), a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Bjorn Johnson , Jared Levy

Generative adversarial networks have seen rapid development in recent years and have led to remarkable improvements in generative modelling of images. However, their application in the audio domain has received limited attention, and…

This paper proposes a speech synthesis system that allows users to specify and control the acoustic characteristics of a speaker by means of prompts describing the speaker's traits of synthesized speech. Unlike previous approaches, our…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Zhengyang Chen , Xuechen Liu , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi , Yanmin Qian

Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) is a task to convert texts into speech. Two of the factors that have been driving TTS are the advancements of probabilistic models and latent representation learning. We propose a TTS method based on latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Yusuke Yasuda , Tomoki Toda

End-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is a method that directly converts input text to output acoustic features using a single network. A recent advance of end-to-end TTS is due to a key technique called attention mechanisms, and all…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-02 Yusuke Yasuda , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi

Although text-to-speech (TTS) systems have significantly improved, most TTS systems still have limitations in synthesizing speech with appropriate phrasing. For natural speech synthesis, it is important to synthesize the speech with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Ji-Sang Hwang , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Zero-shot multi-speaker Text-to-Speech (TTS) generates target speaker voices given an input text and the corresponding speaker embedding. In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of the TTS reconstruction objective to improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Jaejin Cho , Piotr Zelasko , Jesus Villalba , Shinji Watanabe , Najim Dehak

This paper investigates the use of unsupervised text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) as a data augmentation method to improve accented speech recognition. TTS systems are trained with a small amount of accented speech training data and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Cong-Thanh Do , Shuhei Imai , Rama Doddipatla , Thomas Hain

This work aims to build a multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system for ten lower-resourced Turkic languages: Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Sakha, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, and Uzbek. We specifically target the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Rustem Yeshpanov , Saida Mussakhojayeva , Yerbolat Khassanov

Modern sequence to sequence neural TTS systems provide close to natural speech quality. Such systems usually comprise a network converting linguistic/phonetic features sequence to an acoustic features sequence, cascaded with a neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Slava Shechtman , Alex Sorin