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The advancements in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) methods, based on large-scale models, have demonstrated high fidelity in reproducing speaker characteristics. However, these models are too large for practical daily use. We propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Kenichi Fujita , Takanori Ashihara , Marc Delcroix , Yusuke Ijima

Research on speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has progressed rapidly in recent years. Many end-to-end systems have been proposed and show advantages over conventional cascade systems, which are often composed of recognition, translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Xinjian Li , Ye Jia , Chung-Cheng Chiu

In prior work, we introduced IndexTTS 2, a zero-shot neural text-to-speech foundation model comprising two core components: a transformer-based Text-to-Semantic (T2S) module and a non-autoregressive Semantic-to-Mel (S2M) module, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yunpei Li , Xun Zhou , Jinchao Wang , Lu Wang , Yong Wu , Siyi Zhou , Yiquan Zhou , Jingchen Shu

This paper introduces F5-TTS, a fully non-autoregressive text-to-speech system based on flow matching with Diffusion Transformer (DiT). Without requiring complex designs such as duration model, text encoder, and phoneme alignment, the text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Yushen Chen , Zhikang Niu , Ziyang Ma , Keqi Deng , Chunhui Wang , Jian Zhao , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST) refers to the conversion of speech in one language into semantically equivalent speech in another language, facilitating communication between speakers of different languages. Speech-to-Discrete Unit…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Rui Zhou , Akinori Ito , Takashi Nose

There have been emerging research interest and advances in speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), translating utterances from one language to another. This work proposes Multitask Speech Language Model (MSLM), which is a decoder-only speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yifan Peng , Ilia Kulikov , Yilin Yang , Sravya Popuri , Hui Lu , Changhan Wang , Hongyu Gong

Current text-to-speech (TTS) models face a persistent limitation: autoregressive (AR) models suffer from low generation efficiency, while modern non-autoregressive (NAR) models experience high latency due to their unordered temporal nature.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhengyan Sheng , Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Zhijie Yan , Liping Chen

Speech-to-Text Translation (S2TT) systems built from Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Text Translation (T2TT) modules face two major limitations: error propagation and the inability to exploit prosodic or other acoustic cues.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Jacobo Romero-Díaz , Gerard I. Gállego , Oriol Pareras , Federico Costa , Javier Hernando , Cristina España-Bonet

Simultaneously modeling source code and natural language has many exciting applications in automated software development and understanding. Pursuant to achieving such technology, we introduce PyMT5, the Python method text-to-text transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Colin B. Clement , Dawn Drain , Jonathan Timcheck , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Neel Sundaresan

Speech-to-text translation pertains to the task of converting speech signals in a language to text in another language. It finds its application in various domains, such as hands-free communication, dictation, video lecture transcription,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Nivedita Sethiya , Chandresh Kumar Maurya

To participate in the Isometric Spoken Language Translation Task of the IWSLT 2022 evaluation, constrained condition, AppTek developed neural Transformer-based systems for English-to-German with various mechanisms of length control, ranging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Patrick Wilken , Evgeny Matusov

Text to speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) are two dual tasks in speech processing and both achieve impressive performance thanks to the recent advance in deep learning and large amount of aligned speech and text data.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Yi Ren , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Zhou Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

End-to-end speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) systems typically struggle with a critical data bottleneck: the scarcity of parallel speech-to-speech corpora. To overcome this, we introduce RosettaSpeech, a novel zero-shot framework trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Zhisheng Zheng , Xiaohang Sun , Tuan Dinh , Abhishek Yanamandra , Abhinav Jain , Zhu Liu , Sunil Hadap , Vimal Bhat , Manoj Aggarwal , Gerard Medioni , David Harwath

In this paper, we present StyleTTS 2, a text-to-speech (TTS) model that leverages style diffusion and adversarial training with large speech language models (SLMs) to achieve human-level TTS synthesis. StyleTTS 2 differs from its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Vinay S. Raghavan , Gavin Mischler , Nima Mesgarani

This paper introduces Easy One-Step Text-to-Speech (E1 TTS), an efficient non-autoregressive zero-shot text-to-speech system based on denoising diffusion pretraining and distribution matching distillation. The training of E1 TTS is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Zhijun Liu , Shuai Wang , Pengcheng Zhu , Mengxiao Bi , Haizhou Li

This paper introduces StyleSpeech, a novel Text-to-Speech~(TTS) system that enhances the naturalness and accuracy of synthesized speech. Building upon existing TTS technologies, StyleSpeech incorporates a unique Style Decorator structure…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Haowei Lou , Helen Paik , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

We introduce a text-to-speech(TTS) framework based on a neural transducer. We use discretized semantic tokens acquired from wav2vec2.0 embeddings, which makes it easy to adopt a neural transducer for the TTS framework enjoying its monotonic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Minchan Kim , Myeonghun Jeong , Byoung Jin Choi , Dongjune Lee , Nam Soo Kim

Text-to-SQL is a key natural language processing task that maps natural language questions to SQL queries, enabling intuitive interaction with web-based databases. Although current methods perform well on benchmarks like BIRD and Spider,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Tao Liu , Jiafan Lu , Bohan Yu , Pengcheng Wu , Liu Haixin , Guoyu Xu , Li Xiangheng , Lixiao Li , Jiaming Hou , Zhao Shijun , Xinglin Lyu , Kunli Zhang , Yuxiang Jia , Hongyin Zan

This paper presents fairseq S^2, a fairseq extension for speech synthesis. We implement a number of autoregressive (AR) and non-AR text-to-speech models, and their multi-speaker variants. To enable training speech synthesis models with less…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Changhan Wang , Wei-Ning Hsu , Yossi Adi , Adam Polyak , Ann Lee , Peng-Jen Chen , Jiatao Gu , Juan Pino

This paper describes an end-to-end (E2E) neural architecture for the audio rendering of small portions of display content on low resource personal computing devices. It is intended to address the problem of accessibility for vision-impaired…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Liu Chen , Michael Deisher , Munir Georges