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The potential of synthetic data in text-to-speech (TTS) model training has gained increasing attention, yet its rationality and effectiveness require systematic validation. In this study, we systematically investigate the feasibility of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tingxiao Zhou , Leying Zhang , Zhengyang Chen , Yanmin Qian

This paper presents TTSOps, a fully automated closed-loop framework for constructing multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) systems from noisy, uncurated web-scale speech data, often referred to as ``dark data,'' such as online videos.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Kentaro Seki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Takaaki Saeki , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Recently, it has become easier to obtain speech data from various media such as the internet or YouTube, but directly utilizing them to train a neural text-to-speech (TTS) model is difficult. The proportion of clean speech is insufficient…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Hanbin Bae , Jae-Sung Bae , Young-Sun Joo , Young-Ik Kim , Hoon-Young Cho

This paper proposes a method for extracting a lightweight subset from a text-to-speech (TTS) corpus ensuring synthetic speech quality. In recent years, methods have been proposed for constructing large-scale TTS corpora by collecting…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Kentaro Seki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Takaaki Saeki , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Recent Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems trained on reading or acted corpora have achieved near human-level naturalness. The diversity of human speech, however, often goes beyond the coverage of these corpora. We believe the ability to handle…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-09 Li-Wei Chen , Shinji Watanabe , Alexander Rudnicky

Recent advances in synthetic speech quality have enabled us to train text-to-speech (TTS) systems by using synthetic corpora. However, merely increasing the amount of synthetic data is not always advantageous for improving training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Eunwoo Song , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Ohsung Kwon , Chan-Ho Song , Min-Jae Hwang , Suhyeon Oh , Hyun-Wook Yoon , Jin-Seob Kim , Jae-Min Kim

This paper presents a method for selecting appropriate synthetic speech samples from a given large text-to-speech (TTS) dataset as supplementary training data for an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. We trained a neural network,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Shuo Liu , Leda Sarı , Chunyang Wu , Gil Keren , Yuan Shangguan , Jay Mahadeokar , Ozlem Kalinli

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…

Most text-to-speech (TTS) methods use high-quality speech corpora recorded in a well-designed environment, incurring a high cost for data collection. To solve this problem, existing noise-robust TTS methods are intended to use noisy speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Takaaki Saeki , Kentaro Tachibana , Ryuichi Yamamoto

In recent years, Text-To-Speech (TTS) has been used as a data augmentation technique for speech recognition to help complement inadequacies in the training data. Correspondingly, we investigate the use of a multi-speaker TTS system to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Yiling Huang , Yutian Chen , Jason Pelecanos , Quan Wang

In this paper, we propose a text-to-speech (TTS)-driven data augmentation method for improving the quality of a non-autoregressive (AR) TTS system. Recently proposed non-AR models, such as FastSpeech 2, have successfully achieved fast…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Min-Jae Hwang , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Eunwoo Song , Jae-Min Kim

With the popularity of deep neural network, speech synthesis task has achieved significant improvements based on the end-to-end encoder-decoder framework in the recent days. More and more applications relying on speech synthesis technology…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Dongyang Dai , Li Chen , Yuping Wang , Mu Wang , Rui Xia , Xuchen Song , Zhiyong Wu , Yuxuan Wang

While recent neural text-to-speech (TTS) systems perform remarkably well, they typically require a substantial amount of recordings from the target speaker reading in the desired speaking style. In this work, we present a novel 3-step…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Goeric Huybrechts , Thomas Merritt , Giulia Comini , Bartek Perz , Raahil Shah , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

When the available data of a target speaker is insufficient to train a high quality speaker-dependent neural text-to-speech (TTS) system, we can combine data from multiple speakers and train a multi-speaker TTS model instead. Many studies…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-09 Hieu-Thi Luong , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Nobuyuki Nishizawa

The construction of high-quality datasets is a cornerstone of modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems. However, the increasing scale of available data poses significant challenges, including storage constraints. To address these issues, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Kentaro Seki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Takaaki Saeki , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is a technology that converts written text into spoken words, enabling a natural and accessible means of communication. This abstract explores the key aspects of TTS synthesis, encompassing its underlying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Harini s , Manoj G M

People may be puzzled by the fact that voice over recordings data sets exist in addition to Text-to-Speech (TTS), Synthesis system advancements, albeit this is not the case. The goal of this study is to explain the relevance of TTS as well…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Hala Al Masri , Muhy Eddin Za'ter

Traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems rely on studio-quality speech recorded in controlled settings.a Recently, an effort known as noisy-TTS training has emerged, aiming to utilize in-the-wild data. However, the lack of dedicated…

Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis using deep learning relies on voice quality. Modern TTS models are advanced, but they need large amount of data. Given the growing computational complexity of these models and the scarcity of large,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ze Liu

Text to speech (TTS), or speech synthesis, which aims to synthesize intelligible and natural speech given text, is a hot research topic in speech, language, and machine learning communities and has broad applications in the industry. As the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Frank Soong , Tie-Yan Liu
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