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A text-to-speech (TTS) model trained to reconstruct speech given text tends towards predictions that are close to the average characteristics of a dataset, failing to model the variations that make human speech sound natural. This problem…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 John Janiczek , Dading Chong , Dongyang Dai , Arlo Faria , Chao Wang , Tao Wang , Yuzong Liu

This paper proposes a zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) conditioned by a self-supervised speech-representation model acquired through self-supervised learning (SSL). Conventional methods with embedding vectors from x-vector or global style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kenichi Fujita , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroki Kanagawa , Takafumi Moriya , Yusuke Ijima

Speaker embedding based zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems enable high-quality speech synthesis for unseen speakers using minimal data. However, these systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where an attacker introduces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Ze Li , Yao Shi , Yunfei Xu , Ming Li

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved human-like synthetic speech for single-speaker, single-language synthesis. Multilingual TTS systems are limited to resource-rich languages due to the lack of large paired text and studio-quality…

While neural methods for text-to-speech (TTS) have shown great advances in modeling multiple speakers, even in zero-shot settings, the amount of data needed for those approaches is generally not feasible for the vast majority of the world's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Florian Lux , Julia Koch , Ngoc Thang Vu

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

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

Zero-shot multi-speaker TTS aims to synthesize speech with the voice of a chosen target speaker without any fine-tuning. Prevailing methods, however, encounter limitations at adapting to new speakers of out-of-domain settings, primarily due…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yejin Jeon , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Recent advances in neural multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) models have enabled the generation of reasonably good speech quality with a single model and made it possible to synthesize the speech of a speaker with limited training data.…

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

Deep learning models are becoming predominant in many fields of machine learning. Text-to-Speech (TTS), the process of synthesizing artificial speech from text, is no exception. To this end, a deep neural network is usually trained using a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Giuseppe Ruggiero , Enrico Zovato , Luigi Di Caro , Vincent Pollet

While recent zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) models achieve impressive results, they typically rely on extensive transcribed speech datasets from numerous speakers and intricate training pipelines. Meanwhile, self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Karl El Hajal , Ajinkya Kulkarni , Enno Hermann , Mathew Magimai. -Doss

Adaptive text to speech (TTS) can synthesize new voices in zero-shot scenarios efficiently, by using a well-trained source TTS model without adapting it on the speech data of new speakers. Considering seen and unseen speakers have diverse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Yihan Wu , Xu Tan , Bohan Li , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Ruihua Song , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

The zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) method, based on speaker embeddings extracted from reference speech using self-supervised learning (SSL) speech representations, can reproduce speaker characteristics very accurately. However, this…

Speaker adaptation, which involves cloning voices from unseen speakers in the Text-to-Speech task, has garnered significant interest due to its numerous applications in multi-media fields. Despite recent advancements, existing methods often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Ruibo Fu , Xin Qi , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao , Tao Wang , Chunyu Qiang , Zhiyong Wang , Yi Lu , Xiaopeng Wang , Shuchen Shi , Yukun Liu , Xuefei Liu , Shuai Zhang

We propose a novel training algorithm for a multi-speaker neural text-to-speech (TTS) model based on multi-task adversarial training. A conventional generative adversarial network (GAN)-based training algorithm significantly improves the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yusuke Nakai , Yuki Saito , Kenta Udagawa , Hiroshi Saruwatari

The rapid advancement of Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech (ZS-TTS) technology has enabled high-fidelity voice synthesis from minimal audio cues, raising significant privacy and ethical concerns. Despite the threats to voice privacy, research to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Taesoo Kim , Jinju Kim , Dongchan Kim , Jong Hwan Ko , Gyeong-Moon Park

This paper proposes a novel automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that can transcribe individual speaker's speech while identifying whether they are target or non-target speakers from multi-talker overlapped speech. Target-speaker ASR…

Multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) using a few adaption data is a challenge in practical applications. To address that, we propose a zero-shot multi-speaker TTS, named nnSpeech, that could synthesis a new speaker voice without fine-tuning…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Botao Zhao , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Recently, end-to-end multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) systems gain success in the situation where a lot of high-quality speech plus their corresponding transcriptions are available. However, laborious paired data collection processes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Tao Tu , Yuan-Jui Chen , Alexander H. Liu , Hung-yi Lee

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…

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