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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

While neural methods for text-to-speech (TTS) have shown great advances in modeling multiple speakers, even in zero-shot settings, the amount of data needed for those approaches is generally not feasible for the vast majority of the world's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Florian Lux , Julia Koch , Ngoc Thang Vu

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize voices with unseen speech prompts, which significantly reduces the data and computation requirements for voice cloning by skipping the fine-tuning process. However, the prompting mechanisms…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Ziyue Jiang , Jinglin Liu , Yi Ren , Jinzheng He , Zhenhui Ye , Shengpeng Ji , Qian Yang , Chen Zhang , Pengfei Wei , Chunfeng Wang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has gradually become popular as it has many advantages compared with cascade S2ST. However, current research mainly focuses on the accuracy of semantic translation and ignores the speech style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Kun Song , Yi Ren , Yi Lei , Chunfeng Wang , Kun Wei , Lei Xie , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma

While recent zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) models achieve impressive results, they typically rely on extensive transcribed speech datasets from numerous speakers and intricate training pipelines. Meanwhile, self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Karl El Hajal , Ajinkya Kulkarni , Enno Hermann , Mathew Magimai. -Doss

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…

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

We introduce StyleFusion-TTS, a prompt and/or audio referenced, style and speaker-controllable, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system designed to enhance the editability and naturalness of current research literature. We propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Zhiyong Chen , Xinnuo Li , Zhiqi Ai , Shugong Xu

The recent large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) systems are usually grouped as autoregressive and non-autoregressive systems. The autoregressive systems implicitly model duration but exhibit certain deficiencies in robustness and lack of…

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…

Conventional text-to-speech (TTS) research has predominantly focused on enhancing the quality of synthesized speech for speakers in the training dataset. The challenge of synthesizing lifelike speech for unseen, out-of-dataset speakers,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Wenbin Wang , Yang Song , Sanjay Jha

Text to speech (TTS) has been broadly used to synthesize natural and intelligible speech in different scenarios. Deploying TTS in various end devices such as mobile phones or embedded devices requires extremely small memory usage and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Renqian Luo , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Tao Qin , Jinzhu Li , Sheng Zhao , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have achieved high-quality speech generation for unseen speakers, but most systems remain unsuitable for real-time applications because of their offline design. Current streaming…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hui Wang , Yifan Yang , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Lingwei Meng , Yanqing Liu , Jiaming Zhou , Haoqin Sun , Yan Lu , Yong Qin

Recently, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems, capable of synthesizing any speaker's voice from a short audio prompt, have made rapid advancements. However, the quality of the generated speech significantly deteriorates when the audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Xiaofei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Manthan Thakker , Hemin Yang , Zirun Zhu , Min Tang , Yufei Xia , Jinzhu Li , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li , Naoyuki Kanda

We introduce SPEAR-TTS, a multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) system that can be trained with minimal supervision. By combining two types of discrete speech representations, we cast TTS as a composition of two sequence-to-sequence tasks:…

Spoken dialogue generation is crucial for applications like podcasts, dynamic commentary, and entertainment content, but poses significant challenges compared to single-utterance text-to-speech (TTS). Key requirements include accurate…

Codec-based text-to-speech (TTS) models have shown impressive quality with zero-shot voice cloning abilities. However, they often struggle with more expressive references or complex text inputs. We present MARS6, a robust encoder-decoder…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Matthew Baas , Pieter Scholtz , Arnav Mehta , Elliott Dyson , Akshat Prakash , Herman Kamper

The rapid development of large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models has led to significant advancements in modeling diverse speaker prosody and voices. However, these models often face issues such as slow inference speeds, reliance on complex…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Yinghao Aaron Li , Xilin Jiang , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

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

Existing large-scale zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) models deliver high speech quality but suffer from slow inference speeds due to massive parameters. To address this issue, this paper introduces ZipVoice, a high-quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Han Zhu , Wei Kang , Zengwei Yao , Liyong Guo , Fangjun Kuang , Zhaoqing Li , Weiji Zhuang , Long Lin , Daniel Povey