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YourTTS brings the power of a multilingual approach to the task of zero-shot multi-speaker TTS. Our method builds upon the VITS model and adds several novel modifications for zero-shot multi-speaker and multilingual training. We achieved…

Speech synthesis (text to speech, TTS) and recognition (automatic speech recognition, ASR) are important speech tasks, and require a large amount of text and speech pairs for model training. However, there are more than 6,000 languages in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Jin Xu , Xu Tan , Yi Ren , Tao Qin , Jian Li , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize voices with unseen speech prompts, which significantly reduces the data and computation requirements for voice cloning by skipping the fine-tuning process. However, the prompting mechanisms…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Ziyue Jiang , Jinglin Liu , Yi Ren , Jinzheng He , Zhenhui Ye , Shengpeng Ji , Qian Yang , Chen Zhang , Pengfei Wei , Chunfeng Wang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

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

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

As an endangered language, Manchu presents unique challenges for speech synthesis, including severe data scarcity and strong phonological agglutination. This paper proposes ManchuTTS(Manchu Text to Speech), a novel approach tailored to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Suhua Wang , Zifan Wang , Xiaoxin Sun , D. J. Wang , Zhanbo Liu , Xin Li

We present ParrotTTS, a modularized text-to-speech synthesis model leveraging disentangled self-supervised speech representations. It can train a multi-speaker variant effectively using transcripts from a single speaker. ParrotTTS adapts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Neil Shah , Saiteja Kosgi , Vishal Tambrahalli , Neha Sahipjohn , Niranjan Pedanekar , Vineet Gandhi

Speech synthesis has come a long way as current text-to-speech (TTS) models can now generate natural human-sounding speech. However, most of the TTS research focuses on using adult speech data and there has been very limited work done on…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Rishabh Jain , Mariam Yiwere , Dan Bigioi , Peter Corcoran , Horia Cucu

Tibetan is a low-resource language with limited parallel speech corpora spanning its three major dialects (\"U-Tsang, Amdo, and Kham), limiting progress in speech modeling. To address this issue, we propose TMD-TTS, a unified Tibetan…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yutong Liu , Ziyue Zhang , Ban Ma-bao , Renzeng Duojie , Yuqing Cai , Yongbin Yu , Xiangxiang Wang , Fan Gao , Cheng Huang , Nyima Tashi

Deep learning based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have been evolving rapidly with advances in model architectures, training methodologies, and generalization across speakers and languages. However, these advances have not been thoroughly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Gokul Karthik Kumar , Praveen S , Pratyush Kumar , Mitesh M. Khapra , Karthik Nandakumar

Producing synthetic voice, similar to human-like sound, is an emerging novelty of modern interactive media systems. Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems try to generate synthetic and authentic voices via text input. Besides, well known and familiar…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Mohammad Reza Hasanabadi

We describe a neural network-based system for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis that is able to generate speech audio in the voice of many different speakers, including those unseen during training. Our system consists of three independently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Ye Jia , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Quan Wang , Jonathan Shen , Fei Ren , Zhifeng Chen , Patrick Nguyen , Ruoming Pang , Ignacio Lopez Moreno , Yonghui Wu

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

Most Zero-shot Multi-speaker TTS (ZS-TTS) systems support only a single language. Although models like YourTTS, VALL-E X, Mega-TTS 2, and Voicebox explored Multilingual ZS-TTS they are limited to just a few high/medium resource languages,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Edresson Casanova , Kelly Davis , Eren Gölge , Görkem Göknar , Iulian Gulea , Logan Hart , Aya Aljafari , Joshua Meyer , Reuben Morais , Samuel Olayemi , Julian Weber

Modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems use deep learning to synthesize speech increasingly approaching human quality, but they require a database of high quality audio-text sentence pairs for training. Malayalam, the official language of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Deepa P Gopinath , Thennal D K , Vrinda V Nair , Swaraj K S , Sachin G

Recently, large language model (LLM) based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have gradually become the mainstream in the industry due to their high naturalness and powerful zero-shot voice cloning capabilities.Here, we introduce the IndexTTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Wei Deng , Siyi Zhou , Jingchen Shu , Jinchao Wang , Lu Wang

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

Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems find broad applications in voice assistants, e-learning, and audiobook creation. The pursuit of modern models, like Diffusion Models (DMs), holds promise for achieving high-fidelity, real-time speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiang Li , Fan Bu , Ambuj Mehrish , Yingting Li , Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

In this paper, we describe the systems developed by the SJTU X-LANCE team for LIMMITS 2023 Challenge, and we mainly focus on the winning system on naturalness for track 1. The aim of this challenge is to build a multi-speaker multi-lingual…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Chenpeng Du , Yiwei Guo , Feiyu Shen , Kai Yu

The development of high-performance, on-device keyword spotting (KWS) systems for ultra-low-power hardware is critically constrained by the scarcity of specialized, multi-command training datasets. Traditional data collection through human…

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