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Although neural text-to-speech (TTS) models have attracted a lot of attention and succeeded in generating human-like speech, there is still room for improvements to its naturalness and architectural efficiency. In this work, we propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Myeonghun Jeong , Hyeongju Kim , Sung Jun Cheon , Byoung Jin Choi , Nam Soo Kim

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in text-to-speech (TTS), even in zero-shot scenarios. Recent efforts aim to address the trade-off between inference speed and sound quality, often considered the primary drawback of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Changjin Han , Seokgi Lee , Gyuhyeon Nam , Gyeongsu Chae

We introduce MiniMax-Speech, an autoregressive Transformer-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) model that generates high-quality speech. A key innovation is our learnable speaker encoder, which extracts timbre features from a reference audio without…

Recently, deep learning-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have achieved high-quality speech synthesis results. Recurrent neural networks have become a standard modeling technique for sequential data in TTS systems and are widely used.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ziqi Liang , Haoxiang Shi , Jiawei Wang , Keda Lu

In this paper we introduce a first attempt on understanding how a non-autoregressive factorised multi-speaker speech synthesis architecture exploits the information present in different speaker embedding sets. We analyse if jointly learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Adriana Stan , Johannah O'Mahony

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

Code-switching---the intra-utterance use of multiple languages---is prevalent across the world. Within text-to-speech (TTS), multilingual models have been found to enable code-switching. By modifying the linguistic input to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Marlene Staib , Tian Huey Teh , Alexandra Torresquintero , Devang S Ram Mohan , Lorenzo Foglianti , Raphael Lenain , Jiameng Gao

Text-to-Speech (TTS) diffusion models generate high-quality speech, which raises challenges for the model intellectual property protection and speech tracing for legal use. Audio watermarking is a promising solution. However, due to the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yichuan Zhang , Chengxin Li , Yujie Gu

Modern text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) systems produce natural sounding speech that questions the security of automatic speaker verification (ASV). This makes detection of such synthetic speech very important to safeguard ASV…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Zhenzong Wu , Rohan Kumar Das , Jichen Yang , Haizhou Li

While neural text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved human-like natural synthetic speech, multilingual TTS systems are limited to resource-rich languages due to the need for paired text and studio-quality audio data. This paper proposes a method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Takaaki Saeki , Soumi Maiti , Xinjian Li , Shinji Watanabe , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at recognizing unseen classes with knowledge transferred from seen classes. This is typically achieved by exploiting a semantic feature space (FS) shared by both seen and unseen classes, i.e., attributes or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Jingcai Guo , Song Guo

Generating spoken dialogue is inherently more complex than monologue text-to-speech (TTS), as it demands both realistic turn-taking and the maintenance of distinct speaker timbres. While existing autoregressive (AR) models have made…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Han Zhu , Wei Kang , Liyong Guo , Zengwei Yao , Fangjun Kuang , Weiji Zhuang , Zhaoqing Li , Zhifeng Han , Dong Zhang , Xin Zhang , Xingchen Song , Lingxuan Ye , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

While recent large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models have achieved significant progress, they still fall short in speech quality, similarity, and prosody. Considering speech intricately encompasses various attributes (e.g., content,…

Single channel target speaker separation (TSS) aims at extracting a speaker's voice from a mixture of multiple talkers given an enrollment utterance of that speaker. A typical deep learning TSS framework consists of an upstream model that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Xiaoyu Liu , Xu Li , Joan Serrà

We introduce SPEAR-TTS, a multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) system that can be trained with minimal supervision. By combining two types of discrete speech representations, we cast TTS as a composition of two sequence-to-sequence tasks:…

Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection (TS-VAD) is the task of detecting the presence of speech from a known target-speaker in an audio frame. Recently, deep neural network-based models have shown good performance in this task. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Holger Severin Bovbjerg , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Zheng-Hua Tan

The incorporation of Denoising Diffusion Models (DDMs) in the Text-to-Speech (TTS) domain is rising, providing great value in synthesizing high quality speech. Although they exhibit impressive audio quality, the extent of their semantic…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Miri Varshavsky-Hassid , Roy Hirsch , Regev Cohen , Tomer Golany , Daniel Freedman , Ehud Rivlin

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

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

Text-to-speech systems recently achieved almost indistinguishable quality from human speech. However, the prosody of those systems is generally flatter than natural speech, producing samples with low expressiveness. Disentanglement of…