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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Vadim Popov , Ivan Vovk , Vladimir Gogoryan , Tasnima Sadekova , Mikhail Kudinov

Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis faces the inherent challenge of producing multiple speech outputs with varying prosody given a single text input. While previous research has addressed this by predicting prosodic information from both text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shumin Que , Anton Ragni

Scaling Text-to-speech (TTS) to large-scale datasets has been demonstrated as an effective method for improving the diversity and naturalness of synthesized speech. At the high level, previous large-scale TTS models can be categorized into…

In this paper, we present StyleTTS 2, a text-to-speech (TTS) model that leverages style diffusion and adversarial training with large speech language models (SLMs) to achieve human-level TTS synthesis. StyleTTS 2 differs from its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Vinay S. Raghavan , Gavin Mischler , Nima Mesgarani

Token-based text-to-speech (TTS) models have emerged as a promising avenue for generating natural and realistic speech, yet they grapple with low pronunciation accuracy, speaking style and timbre inconsistency, and a substantial need for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunhui Wang , Chang Zeng , Bowen Zhang , Ziyang Ma , Yefan Zhu , Zifeng Cai , Jian Zhao , Zhonglin Jiang , Yong Chen

Dynamically synthesizing talking speech that actively responds to a listening head is critical during the face-to-face interaction. For example, the speaker could take advantage of the listener's facial expression to adjust the tones,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Mohan Zhou , Yalong Bai , Wei Zhang , Ting Yao , Tiejun Zhao , Tao Mei

This paper presents a method for end-to-end cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) which aims to preserve the target language's pronunciation regardless of the original speaker's language. The model used is based on a non-attentive Tacotron…

Incorporating cross-speaker style transfer in text-to-speech (TTS) models is challenging due to the need to disentangle speaker and style information in audio. In low-resource expressive data scenarios, voice conversion (VC) can generate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Lucas H. Ueda , Leonardo B. de M. M. Marques , Flávio O. Simões , Mário U. Neto , Fernando Runstein , Bianca Dal Bó , Paula D. P. Costa

Scaling text-to-speech to a large and wild dataset has been proven to be highly effective in achieving timbre and speech style generalization, particularly in zero-shot TTS. However, previous works usually encode speech into latent using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Ziyue Jiang , Yi Ren , Zhenhui Ye , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Qian Yang , Shengpeng Ji , Rongjie Huang , Chunfeng Wang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

This paper presents a novel data augmentation technique for text-to-speech (TTS), that allows to generate new (text, audio) training examples without requiring any additional data. Our goal is to increase diversity of text conditionings…

Transformer-based text to speech (TTS) model (e.g., Transformer TTS~\cite{li2019neural}, FastSpeech~\cite{ren2019fastspeech}) has shown the advantages of training and inference efficiency over RNN-based model (e.g.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Mingjian Chen , Xu Tan , Yi Ren , Jin Xu , Hao Sun , Sheng Zhao , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

We present LongCat-AudioDiT, a novel, non-autoregressive diffusion-based text-to-speech (TTS) model that achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. Unlike previous methods that rely on intermediate acoustic representations such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Detai Xin , Shujie Hu , Chengzuo Yang , Chen Huang , Guoqiao Yu , Guanglu Wan , Xunliang Cai

The recent text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved quality comparable to that of humans; however, its application in spoken dialogue has not been widely studied. This study aims to realize a TTS that closely resembles human dialogue. First, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Kentaro Mitsui , Tianyu Zhao , Kei Sawada , Yukiya Hono , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

In this paper, we introduce a zero-shot Voice Transfer (VT) module that can be seamlessly integrated into a multi-lingual Text-to-speech (TTS) system to transfer an individual's voice across languages. Our proposed VT module comprises a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Fadi Biadsy , Youzheng Chen , Isaac Elias , Kyle Kastner , Gary Wang , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran

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 propose Easy End-to-End Diffusion-based Text to Speech, a simple and efficient end-to-end text-to-speech model based on diffusion. E3 TTS directly takes plain text as input and generates an audio waveform through an iterative refinement…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yuan Gao , Nobuyuki Morioka , Yu Zhang , Nanxin Chen

Most text-to-speech (TTS) methods use high-quality speech corpora recorded in a well-designed environment, incurring a high cost for data collection. To solve this problem, existing noise-robust TTS methods are intended to use noisy speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Takaaki Saeki , Kentaro Tachibana , Ryuichi Yamamoto

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 DiFlow-TTS, a novel zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) system that employs discrete flow matching for generative speech modeling. We position this work as an entry point that may facilitate further advances in this…

Recent advancements in Virtual Try-On (VTO) have demonstrated exceptional efficacy in generating realistic images and preserving garment details, largely attributed to the robust generative capabilities of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion…

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