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Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) aims to express a target utterance with the proper speaking style in a user-agent conversation setting. Existing CSS methods employ effective multi-modal context modeling techniques to achieve empathy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Rui Liu , Yifan Hu , Yi Ren , Xiang Yin , Haizhou Li

In recent years, there has been significant progress in Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis technology, enabling the high-quality synthesis of voices in common scenarios. In unseen situations, adaptive TTS requires a strong generalization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Zhipeng Li , Xiaofen Xing , Jun Wang , Shuaiqi Chen , Guoqiao Yu , Guanglu Wan , Xiangmin Xu

This paper describes progress towards making a Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) Frontend that works for many languages and can be easily extended to new languages. We take a Machine Translation (MT) inspired approach to constructing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Alistair Conkie , Andrew Finch

End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis systems achieved immense success in recent times, with improved naturalness and intelligibility. However, the end-to-end models, which primarily depend on the attention-based alignment, do not offer an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Giridhar Pamisetty , K. Sri Rama Murty

Large-language-model (LLM)-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems can generate natural speech, but most are not designed for low-latency dual-streaming synthesis. High-quality dual-streaming TTS depends on accurate text--speech alignment and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Hanwen Liu , Saierdaer Yusuyin , Hao Huang , Zhijian Ou

Most existing text-to-speech (TTS) systems either synthesize speech sentence by sentence and stitch the results together, or drive synthesis from plain-text dialogues alone. Both approaches leave models with little understanding of global…

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

Evaluating Text Style Transfer (TST) is a complex task due to its multifaceted nature. The quality of the generated text is measured based on challenging factors, such as style transfer accuracy, content preservation, and overall fluency.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Phil Ostheimer , Mayank Nagda , Marius Kloft , Sophie Fellenz

Previous multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) approaches have considered leveraging monolingual speaker data to enable cross-lingual speech synthesis. However, such data-efficient approaches have ignored synthesizing emotional aspects of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Xinfa Zhu , Yi Lei , Tao Li , Yongmao Zhang , Hongbin Zhou , Heng Lu , Lei Xie

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

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

This paper introduces Embarrassingly Easy Text-to-Speech (E2 TTS), a fully non-autoregressive zero-shot text-to-speech system that offers human-level naturalness and state-of-the-art speaker similarity and intelligibility. In the E2 TTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Xiaofei Wang , Manthan Thakker , Canrun Li , Chung-Hsien Tsai , Zhen Xiao , Hemin Yang , Zirun Zhu , Min Tang , Xu Tan , Yanqing Liu , Sheng Zhao , Naoyuki Kanda

Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) is a task to convert texts into speech. Two of the factors that have been driving TTS are the advancements of probabilistic models and latent representation learning. We propose a TTS method based on latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Yusuke Yasuda , Tomoki Toda

In this technical report, we describe our submission for the WildSpoof Challenge TTS Track: Text-to-Speech with In-the-Wild Data. We introduce F5-TTS-DPS, a model built upon the F5-TTS architecture. Our approach integrates Exponential…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Renhe Sun , Jiayi Zhou , Haolin He , Yueying Feng , Jian Liu

In this paper, we study the controllability of an Expressive TTS system trained on a dataset for a continuous control. The dataset is the Blizzard 2013 dataset based on audiobooks read by a female speaker containing a great variability in…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Noé Tits , Kevin El Haddad , Thierry Dutoit

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) models can synthesize natural human speech when trained on large amounts of transcribed speech. However, collecting such large-scale transcribed data is expensive. This paper proposes an unsupervised pre-training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Seongyeon Park , Myungseo Song , Bohyung Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh

Text to speech (TTS), or speech synthesis, which aims to synthesize intelligible and natural speech given text, is a hot research topic in speech, language, and machine learning communities and has broad applications in the industry. As the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Frank Soong , Tie-Yan Liu

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

Text-to-speech models trained on large-scale datasets have demonstrated impressive in-context learning capabilities and naturalness. However, control of speaker identity and style in these models typically requires conditioning on reference…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Dan Lyth , Simon King

Recent advances in Text-To-Speech (TTS) technology have enabled synthetic speech to mimic human voices with remarkable realism, raising significant security concerns. This underscores the need for traceable TTS models-systems capable of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yuxiang Zhao , Yunchong Xiao , Yushen Chen , Zhikang Niu , Shuai Wang , Kai Yu , Xie Chen