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This letter presents an incremental text-to-speech (TTS) method that performs synthesis in small linguistic units while maintaining the naturalness of output speech. Incremental TTS is generally subject to a trade-off between latency and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Takaaki Saeki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

While recent advancements in speech language models have achieved significant progress, they face remarkable challenges in modeling the long acoustic sequences of neural audio codecs. In this paper, we introduce \textbf{G}enerative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yongxin Zhu , Dan Su , Liqiang He , Linli Xu , Dong Yu

In recent years, the field of image generation has been revolutionized by the application of autoregressive transformers and DDPMs. These approaches model the process of image generation as a step-wise probabilistic processes and leverage…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-25 James Betker

We introduce RapFlow-TTS, a rapid and high-fidelity TTS acoustic model that leverages velocity consistency constraints in flow matching (FM) training. Although ordinary differential equation (ODE)-based TTS generation achieves…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Hyun Joon Park , Jeongmin Liu , Jin Sob Kim , Jeong Yeol Yang , Sung Won Han , Eunwoo Song

Diffusion-based Generative AI gains significant attention for its superior performance over other generative techniques like Generative Adversarial Networks and Variational Autoencoders. While it has achieved notable advancements in fields…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Haowei Lou , Helen Paik , Pari Delir Haghighi , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

The goal of this work is to simultaneously generate natural talking faces and speech outputs from text. We achieve this by integrating Talking Face Generation (TFG) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems into a unified framework. We address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Youngjoon Jang , Ji-Hoon Kim , Junseok Ahn , Doyeop Kwak , Hong-Sun Yang , Yoon-Cheol Ju , Il-Hwan Kim , Byeong-Yeol Kim , Joon Son Chung

Non-autoregressive text to speech (TTS) models such as FastSpeech can synthesize speech significantly faster than previous autoregressive models with comparable quality. The training of FastSpeech model relies on an autoregressive teacher…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Yi Ren , Chenxu Hu , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Zhou Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

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

We propose FEIM-TTS, an innovative zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) model that synthesizes emotionally expressive speech, aligned with facial images and modulated by emotion intensity. Leveraging deep learning, FEIM-TTS transcends traditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yunji Chu , Yunseob Shim , Unsang Park

The latency bottleneck of traditional text-to-speech (TTS) systems fundamentally hinders the potential of streaming large language models (LLMs) in conversational AI. These TTS systems, typically trained and inferenced on complete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Richard He Bai , Zijin Gu , Tatiana Likhomanenko , Navdeep Jaitly

Zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) has recently advanced significantly, enabling models to synthesize speech from text using short, limited-context prompts. These prompts serve as voice exemplars, allowing the model to mimic speaker identity,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hieu-Nghia Huynh-Nguyen , Huynh Nguyen Dang , Ngoc-Son Nguyen , Van Nguyen

Controlling speaking style in text-to-speech (TTS) systems has become a growing focus in both academia and industry. While many existing approaches rely on reference audio to guide style generation, such methods are often impractical due to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Haowei Lou , Hye-Young Paik , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

This paper presents a new challenge that calls for zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems to augment speech data for the downstream task, personalized speech enhancement (PSE), as part of the Generative Data Augmentation workshop at ICASSP…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Jae-Sung Bae , Anastasia Kuznetsova , Dinesh Manocha , John Hershey , Trausti Kristjansson , Minje Kim

This study aims at designing an environment-aware text-to-speech (TTS) system that can generate speech to suit specific acoustic environments. It is also motivated by the desire to leverage massive data of speech audio from heterogeneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Daxin Tan , Guangyan Zhang , Tan Lee

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) can provide quality close to natural speech if an adequate amount of high-quality speech material is available for training. However, acquiring speech data for TTS training is costly and time-consuming,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Tuomo Raitio , Javier Latorre , Andrea Davis , Tuuli Morrill , Ladan Golipour

When the available data of a target speaker is insufficient to train a high quality speaker-dependent neural text-to-speech (TTS) system, we can combine data from multiple speakers and train a multi-speaker TTS model instead. Many studies…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-09 Hieu-Thi Luong , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Nobuyuki Nishizawa

Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize different speaking style speech according to human's demands. Nowadays, there are two common ways to control speaking styles: (1) Pre-defining a group of speaking style and using…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Dongchao Yang , Songxiang Liu , Rongjie Huang , Chao Weng , Helen Meng

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

There has been a significant progress in Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis technology in recent years, thanks to the advancement in neural generative modeling. However, existing methods on any-speaker adaptive TTS have achieved unsatisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Minki Kang , Dongchan Min , Sung Ju Hwang

We present MELLE, a novel continuous-valued token based language modeling approach for text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). MELLE autoregressively generates continuous mel-spectrogram frames directly from text condition, bypassing the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Lingwei Meng , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Sanyuan Chen , Bing Han , Shujie Hu , Yanqing Liu , Jinyu Li , Sheng Zhao , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng , Furu Wei