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With the advancement of speech synthesis technology, users have higher expectations for the naturalness and expressiveness of synthesized speech. But previous research ignores the importance of prompt selection. This study proposes a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Dan Luo , Chengyuan Ma , Weiqin Li , Jun Wang , Wei Chen , Zhiyong Wu

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

Controlling the style and characteristics of speech synthesis is crucial for adapting the output to specific contexts and user requirements. Previous Text-to-speech (TTS) works have focused primarily on the technical aspects of producing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Jiawei Zhang , Tian-Hao Zhang , Jun Wang , Jiaran Gao , Xinyuan Qian , Xu-Cheng Yin

Recent success of the Tacotron speech synthesis architecture and its variants in producing natural sounding multi-speaker synthesized speech has raised the exciting possibility of replacing expensive, manually transcribed, domain-specific,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Andrew Rosenberg , Yu Zhang , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Ye Jia , Pedro Moreno , Yonghui Wu , Zelin Wu

Translating information between text and image is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence that connects natural language processing and computer vision. In the past few years, performance in image caption generation has seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Hao Dong , Jingqing Zhang , Douglas McIlwraith , Yike Guo

Recent trends in neural network based text-to-speech/speech synthesis pipelines have employed recurrent Seq2seq architectures that can synthesize realistic sounding speech directly from text characters. These systems however have complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Gary Wang

While recent advances in Text-To-Speech synthesis have yielded remarkable improvements in generating high-quality speech, research on lightweight and fast models is limited. This paper introduces FLY-TTS, a new fast, lightweight and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yinlin Guo , Yening Lv , Jinqiao Dou , Yan Zhang , Yuehai Wang

Text-to-image generation models~(e.g., Stable Diffusion) have achieved significant advancements, enabling the creation of high-quality and realistic images based on textual descriptions. Prompt inversion, the task of identifying the textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mingzhe Li , Kejing Xia , Gehao Zhang , Zhenting Wang , Guanhong Tao , Siqi Pan , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma

Diffusion models have emerged as a prominent technique in generative modeling with neural networks, making their mark in tasks like text-to-image translation and super-resolution. In this tutorial, we provide a comprehensive guide to build…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Harshith Bachimanchi , Giovanni Volpe

Recent advances in Text-to-Speech (TTS) have improved quality and naturalness to near-human capabilities when considering isolated sentences. But something which is still lacking in order to achieve human-like communication is the dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Shubhi Tyagi , Marco Nicolis , Jonas Rohnke , Thomas Drugman , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

Recent advancements in autoregressive and diffusion models have led to strong performance in image generation with short scene text words. However, generating coherent, long-form text in images, such as paragraphs in slides or documents,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Alex Jinpeng Wang , Linjie Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Lijuan Wang , Min Li

This paper describes the design of a neural network that performs the phonetic-to-acoustic mapping in a speech synthesis system. The use of a time-domain neural network architecture limits discontinuities that occur at phone boundaries.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Orhan Karaali , Gerald Corrigan , Ira Gerson , Noel Massey

Speech synthesis is used in a wide variety of industries. Nonetheless, it always sounds flat or robotic. The state of the art methods that allow for prosody control are very cumbersome to use and do not allow easy tuning. To tackle some of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Enrique Hortal , Rodrigo Brechard Alarcia

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and generalizability of character-driven animation, enabling the synthesis of high-quality motion from just a single RGB image and a set of driving poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

We introduce SupertonicTTS, a novel text-to-speech (TTS) system designed for efficient and streamlined speech synthesis. SupertonicTTS comprises three components: a speech autoencoder for continuous latent representation, a text-to-latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Hyeongju Kim , Jinhyeok Yang , Yechan Yu , Seunghun Ji , Jacob Morton , Frederik Bous , Joon Byun , Juheon Lee

With the development of deep learning, speech enhancement has been greatly optimized in terms of speech quality. Previous methods typically focus on the discriminative supervised learning or generative modeling, which tends to introduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Nan Xu , Zhaolong Huang , Xiaonan Zhi

Despite impressive recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models, obtaining high-quality images often requires prompt engineering by humans who have developed expertise in using them. In this work, we present NeuroPrompts, an adaptive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shachar Rosenman , Vasudev Lal , Phillip Howard

A Spoken dialogue system for an unseen language is referred to as Zero resource speech. It is especially beneficial for developing applications for languages that have low digital resources. Zero resource speech synthesis is the task of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Karthik Pandia D S , Anusha Prakash , Mano Ranjith Kumar , Hema A Murthy

We propose a novel talking head synthesis pipeline called "DiT-Head", which is based on diffusion transformers and uses audio as a condition to drive the denoising process of a diffusion model. Our method is scalable and can generalise to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Aaron Mir , Eduardo Alonso , Esther Mondragón

This brief literature review studies the problem of audiovisual speech synthesis, which is the problem of generating an animated talking head given a text as input. Due to the high complexity of this problem, we approach it as the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Efthymios Georgiou , Athanasios Katsamanis