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The increased adoption of digital assistants makes text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems an indispensable feature of modern mobile devices. It is hence desirable to build a system capable of generating highly intelligible speech in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Dipjyoti Paul , Muhammed PV Shifas , Yannis Pantazis , Yannis Stylianou

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems are being built using end-to-end deep learning approaches. However, these systems require huge amounts of training data. We present our approach to built production quality TTS and perform speaker adaptation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Raviraj Joshi , Nikesh Garera

Text to speech (TTS) has been broadly used to synthesize natural and intelligible speech in different scenarios. Deploying TTS in various end devices such as mobile phones or embedded devices requires extremely small memory usage and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Renqian Luo , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Tao Qin , Jinzhu Li , Sheng Zhao , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Speech-to-text (S2T) generation systems frequently face challenges in low-resource scenarios, primarily due to the lack of extensive labeled datasets. One emerging solution is constructing virtual training samples by interpolating inputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Chen Xu , Jie Wang , Xiaoqian Liu , Qianqian Dong , Chunliang Zhang , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu , Dapeng Man , Wu Yang

While Test-Time Scaling (TTS) offers a promising direction to enhance video generation without the surging costs of training, current test-time video generation methods based on diffusion models suffer from exorbitant candidate exploration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yijing Tu , Shaojin Wu , Mengqi Huang , Wenchuan Wang , Yuxin Wang , Chunxiao Liu , Zhendong Mao

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) technology have enabled systems to generate speech that is often indistinguishable from human speech, bringing benefits to accessibility, content creation, and human-computer interaction. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Yifan Yang , Hui Wang , Bing Han , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Yong Qin , Xie Chen

Accent plays a significant role in speech communication, influencing one's capability to understand as well as conveying a person's identity. This paper introduces a novel and efficient framework for accented Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Jan Melechovsky , Ambuj Mehrish , Berrak Sisman , Dorien Herremans

Developing high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) systems for low-resource languages is challenging due to the scarcity of paired text and speech data. In contrast, automatic speech recognition (ASR) models for such languages are often more…

Although neural end-to-end text-to-speech models can synthesize highly natural speech, there is still room for improvements to its efficiency and naturalness. This paper proposes a non-autoregressive neural text-to-speech model augmented…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Isaac Elias , Heiga Zen , Jonathan Shen , Yu Zhang , Ye Jia , Ron Weiss , Yonghui Wu

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…

Expressive Text-to-Speech (TTS) using reference speech has been studied extensively to synthesize natural speech, but there are limitations to obtaining well-represented styles and improving model generalization ability. In this study, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Hyun Joon Park , Jin Sob Kim , Wooseok Shin , Sung Won Han

While prompt-based text-to-speech (TTS) models enable natural language-driven speaking style control, they often provide limited fine-grained control and apply a single global style across an utterance. This restricts practical use cases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jaehoon Kang , Yejin Lee , Yoonji Park , Kyuhong Shim

Text to Speech (TTS) models can generate natural and high-quality speech, but it is not expressive enough when synthesizing speech with dramatic expressiveness, such as stand-up comedies. Considering comedians have diverse personal speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yuyue Wang , Huan Xiao , Yihan Wu , Ruihua Song

Current dialogue generation approaches typically require the complete dialogue text before synthesis and produce a single, inseparable speech containing all voices, making them unsuitable for interactive chat; moreover, they suffer from…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Kun Xie , Feiyu Shen , Junjie Li , Fenglong Xie , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

Conversational text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize speech with proper prosody of reply based on the historical conversation. However, it is still a challenge to comprehensively model the conversation, and a majority of conversational…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Jinlong Xue , Yayue Deng , Fengping Wang , Ya Li , Yingming Gao , Jianhua Tao , Jianqing Sun , Jiaen Liang

Vocoders received renewed attention as main components in statistical parametric text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis and speech transformation systems. Even though there are vocoding techniques give almost accepted synthesized speech, their high…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi , Tamás Gábor Csapó , Géza Németh

Self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques have achieved remarkable results in various speech processing tasks. Nonetheless, a significant challenge remains in reducing the reliance on vast amounts of speech data for pre-training. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Po-chun Hsu , Ali Elkahky , Wei-Ning Hsu , Yossi Adi , Tu Anh Nguyen , Jade Copet , Emmanuel Dupoux , Hung-yi Lee , Abdelrahman Mohamed

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

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

Contemporary text-to-speech solutions for accessibility applications can typically be classified into two categories: (i) device-based statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) or unit selection (USEL) and (ii) cloud-based neural TTS.…