English
Related papers

Related papers: FlashSpeech: Efficient Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis

200 papers

We present FastPitch, a fully-parallel text-to-speech model based on FastSpeech, conditioned on fundamental frequency contours. The model predicts pitch contours during inference. By altering these predictions, the generated speech can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Adrian Łańcucki

Recent advancements in latent diffusion models (LDMs) have markedly enhanced text-to-audio generation, yet their iterative sampling processes impose substantial computational demands, limiting practical deployment. While recent methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Huadai Liu , Jialei Wang , Rongjie Huang , Yang Liu , Heng Lu , Zhou Zhao , Wei Xue

Prior works have demonstrated zero-shot text-to-speech by using a generative language model on audio tokens obtained via a neural audio codec. It is still challenging, however, to adapt them to low-latency scenarios. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Trung Dang , David Aponte , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida

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

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

Language models are increasingly adopting smaller architectures optimized for consumer devices. In this setting, inference efficiency is the primary constraint. Meanwhile, vocabulary sizes continue to grow rapidly, making the classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wilhelm Tranheden , Shahnawaz Ahmed , Devdatt Dubhashi , Jonna Matthiesen , Hannes von Essen

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

This work introduces Sample-Efficient Speech Diffusion (SESD), an algorithm for effective speech synthesis in modest data regimes through latent diffusion. It is based on a novel diffusion architecture, that we call U-Audio Transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Justin Lovelace , Soham Ray , Kwangyoun Kim , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Felix Wu

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

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

The zero-shot scenario for speech generation aims at synthesizing a novel unseen voice with only one utterance of the target speaker. Although the challenges of adapting new voices in zero-shot scenario exist in both stages -- acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yi Lei , Shan Yang , Jian Cong , Lei Xie , Dan Su

In this work, we present DiffVoice, a novel text-to-speech model based on latent diffusion. We propose to first encode speech signals into a phoneme-rate latent representation with a variational autoencoder enhanced by adversarial training,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Zhijun Liu , Yiwei Guo , Kai Yu

Recent research in zero-shot speech synthesis has made significant progress in speaker similarity. However, current efforts focus on timbre generalization rather than prosody modeling, which results in limited naturalness and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yuepeng Jiang , Tao Li , Fengyu Yang , Lei Xie , Meng Meng , Yujun Wang

While recent neural sequence-to-sequence models have greatly improved the quality of speech synthesis, there has not been a system capable of fast training, fast inference and high-quality audio synthesis at the same time. We propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Jan Vainer , Ondřej Dušek

While Diffusion Generative Models have achieved great success on image generation tasks, how to efficiently and effectively incorporate them into speech generation especially translation tasks remains a non-trivial problem. Specifically,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yongxin Zhu , Zhujin Gao , Xinyuan Zhou , Zhongyi Ye , Linli Xu

This work proposes an efficient method to enhance the quality of corrupted speech signals by leveraging both acoustic and visual cues. While existing diffusion-based approaches have demonstrated remarkable quality, their applicability is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Chaeyoung Jung , Suyeon Lee , Ji-Hoon Kim , Joon Son Chung

Recent advancements in music generation have garnered significant attention, yet existing approaches face critical limitations. Some current generative models can only synthesize either the vocal track or the accompaniment track. While some…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Ziqian Ning , Huakang Chen , Yuepeng Jiang , Chunbo Hao , Guobin Ma , Shuai Wang , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie

Zero-shot Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis shows great promise for personalized voice customization through voice cloning. However, current methods for achieving zero-shot TTS heavily rely on large model scales and extensive training datasets…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Qianniu Chen , Xiaoyang Hao , Bowen Li , Yue Liu , Li Lu

Recent advancements in speech synthesis have enabled large language model (LLM)-based systems to perform zero-shot generation with controllable content, timbre, speaker identity, and emotion through input prompts. As a result, these models…

The zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) method, based on speaker embeddings extracted from reference speech using self-supervised learning (SSL) speech representations, can reproduce speaker characteristics very accurately. However, this…