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We introduce Seed-TTS, a family of large-scale autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) models capable of generating speech that is virtually indistinguishable from human speech. Seed-TTS serves as a foundation model for speech generation and…

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

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, such as Tacotron and WaveRNN, have made it possible to construct a fully neural network based TTS system, by coupling the two components together. Such a system is conceptually simple as it…

Although diffusion-based, non-autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems have demonstrated impressive zero-shot synthesis capabilities, their efficacy is still hindered by two key challenges: the difficulty of text-speech alignment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Chunyat Wu , Jiajun Deng , Zhengxi Liu , Zheqi Dai , Haolin He , Qiuqiang Kong

Although text-to-speech (TTS) systems have significantly improved, most TTS systems still have limitations in synthesizing speech with appropriate phrasing. For natural speech synthesis, it is important to synthesize the speech with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Ji-Sang Hwang , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Text-to-speech (TTS) methods have shown promising results in voice cloning, but they require a large number of labeled text-speech pairs. Minimally-supervised speech synthesis decouples TTS by combining two types of discrete speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Yixin Tian , Yi Zhao , Ying Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Autoregressive (AR) frameworks have recently achieved remarkable progress in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) by leveraging discrete speech tokens and large language model techniques. Despite their success, existing AR-based zero-shot TTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jingyuan Xing , Mingru Yang , Zhipeng Li , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu

Synthesizing the voices of unseen speakers remains a persisting challenge in multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS). Existing methods model speaker characteristics through speaker conditioning during training, leading to increased model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Shreeram Suresh Chandra , Junchen Lu , Berrak Sisman

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

While automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved remarkable performance with large-scale datasets, their efficacy remains inadequate in low-resource settings, encompassing dialects, accents, minority languages, and long-tail…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Guanrou Yang , Fan Yu , Ziyang Ma , Zhihao Du , Zhifu Gao , Shiliang Zhang , Xie Chen

Non-autoregressive text-to-speech (NAR-TTS) models such as FastSpeech 2 and Glow-TTS can synthesize high-quality speech from the given text in parallel. After analyzing two kinds of generative NAR-TTS models (VAE and normalizing flow), we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Zhou Zhao

This paper proposes a neural sequence-to-sequence text-to-speech (TTS) model which can control latent attributes in the generated speech that are rarely annotated in the training data, such as speaking style, accent, background noise, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Wei-Ning Hsu , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Heiga Zen , Yonghui Wu , Yuxuan Wang , Yuan Cao , Ye Jia , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathan Shen , Patrick Nguyen , Ruoming Pang

Scaling text-to-speech (TTS) to large-scale, multi-speaker, and in-the-wild datasets is important to capture the diversity in human speech such as speaker identities, prosodies, and styles (e.g., singing). Current large TTS systems usually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Kai Shen , Zeqian Ju , Xu Tan , Yanqing Liu , Yichong Leng , Lei He , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Jiang Bian

Accented automatic speech recognition (ASR) often degrades due to the limited availability of accented training data. Prior work has explored accent modeling in low-resource settings, but existing approaches typically require minutes to…

This paper proposes visual-text to speech (vTTS), a method for synthesizing speech from visual text (i.e., text as an image). Conventional TTS converts phonemes or characters into discrete symbols and synthesizes a speech waveform from…

Speaker-adaptive Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis has attracted considerable attention due to its broad range of applications, such as personalized voice assistant services. While several approaches have been proposed, they often exhibit high…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wooseok Han , Minki Kang , Changhun Kim , Eunho Yang

The mainstream neural text-to-speech(TTS) pipeline is a cascade system, including an acoustic model(AM) that predicts acoustic feature from the input transcript and a vocoder that generates waveform according to the given acoustic feature.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Chenpeng Du , Yiwei Guo , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems face ongoing challenges in processing complex linguistic features, handling polyphonic expressions, and producing natural-sounding multilingual speech - capabilities that are crucial for future AI applications.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Shijia Liao , Yuxuan Wang , Tianyu Li , Yifan Cheng , Ruoyi Zhang , Rongzhi Zhou , Yijin Xing

In this work, we address the Text-to-Speech (TTS) task by proposing a non-autoregressive architecture called EfficientTTS. Unlike the dominant non-autoregressive TTS models, which are trained with the need of external aligners, EfficientTTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Chenfeng Miao , Shuang Liang , Zhencheng Liu , Minchuan Chen , Jun Ma , Shaojun Wang , Jing Xiao

Currently, a common approach in many speech processing tasks is to leverage large scale pre-trained models by fine-tuning them on in-domain data for a particular application. Yet obtaining even a small amount of such data can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Samuele Cornell , Jordan Darefsky , Zhiyao Duan , Shinji Watanabe