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Neural network based end-to-end Text-to-Speech (TTS) has greatly improved the quality of synthesized speech. While how to use massive spontaneous speech without transcription efficiently still remains an open problem. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Dabiao Ma , Yitong Zhang , Meng Li , Feng Ye

Para-/non-linguistic information in speech is pivotal in shaping the listeners' impression. Although zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved high speaker fidelity, modulating subtle para-/non-linguistic information to control perceived…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Kenichi Fujita , Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Ijima

Aligning text-to-speech (TTS) system outputs with human feedback through preference optimization has been shown to effectively improve the robustness and naturalness of language model-based TTS models. Current approaches primarily require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Rikuto Kotoge , Yuichi Sasaki

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

Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) technology have increased demand for personalized audio synthesis. Zero-shot voice cloning, a specialized TTS task, aims to synthesize a target speaker's voice using only a single audio sample and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ming Meng , Ziyi Yang , Jian Yang , Zhenjie Su , Yonggui Zhu , Zhaoxin Fan

Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize speeches with human-like tones, moods, or even artistic attributes. Recent advancements in expressive TTS empower users with the ability to directly control synthesis style through natural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Hanglei Zhang , Yiwei Guo , Sen Liu , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems rely on studio-quality speech recorded in controlled settings.a Recently, an effort known as noisy-TTS training has emerged, aiming to utilize in-the-wild data. However, the lack of dedicated…

Evaluation of Text to Speech (TTS) systems is challenging and resource-intensive. Subjective metrics such as Mean Opinion Score (MOS) are not easily comparable between works. Objective metrics are frequently used, but rarely validated…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Christoph Minixhofer , Ondrej Klejch , Peter Bell

In this work, we take on the challenging task of building a single text-to-speech synthesis system that is capable of generating speech in over 7000 languages, many of which lack sufficient data for traditional TTS development. By…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Florian Lux , Sarina Meyer , Lyonel Behringer , Frank Zalkow , Phat Do , Matt Coler , Emanuël A. P. Habets , 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

Multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) using a few adaption data is a challenge in practical applications. To address that, we propose a zero-shot multi-speaker TTS, named nnSpeech, that could synthesis a new speaker voice without fine-tuning…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Botao Zhao , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Short-utterance speaker verification presents significant challenges due to the limited information in brief speech segments, which can undermine accuracy and reliability. Recently, zero-shot text-to-speech (ZS-TTS) systems have made…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yiyang Zhao , Shuai Wang , Guangzhi Sun , Zehua Chen , Chao Zhang , Mingxing Xu , Thomas Fang Zheng

Second language (L2) learners can improve their pronunciation by imitating golden speech, especially when the speech that aligns with their respective speech characteristics. This study explores the hypothesis that learner-specific golden…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Tien-Hong Lo , Meng-Ting Tsai , Yao-Ting Sung , Berlin Chen

In this paper, we investigate the semi-supervised joint training of text to speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR), where a small amount of paired data and a large amount of unpaired text data are available. Conventional…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Naoki Makishima , Satoshi Suzuki , Atsushi Ando , Ryo Masumura

Existing expressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems primarily model a limited set of categorical emotions, whereas human conversations extend far beyond these predefined emotions, making it essential to explore more diverse emotional speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Xiaoxue Gao , Huayun Zhang , Nancy F. Chen

One-shot voice cloning aims to transform speaker voice and speaking style in speech synthesized from a text-to-speech (TTS) system, where only a shot recording from the target reference speech can be used. Out-of-domain transfer is still a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Rui Li , Dong Pu , Minnie Huang , Bill Huang

This paper introduces Easy One-Step Text-to-Speech (E1 TTS), an efficient non-autoregressive zero-shot text-to-speech system based on denoising diffusion pretraining and distribution matching distillation. The training of E1 TTS is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Zhijun Liu , Shuai Wang , Pengcheng Zhu , Mengxiao Bi , Haizhou Li

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

People change their tones of voice, often accompanied by nonverbal vocalizations (NVs) such as laughter and cries, to convey rich emotions. However, most text-to-speech (TTS) systems lack the capability to generate speech with rich…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Haibin Wu , Xiaofei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Manthan Thakker , Daniel Tompkins , Chung-Hsien Tsai , Canrun Li , Zhen Xiao , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li , Naoyuki Kanda

The rapid advancement of Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech (ZS-TTS) technology has enabled high-fidelity voice synthesis from minimal audio cues, raising significant privacy and ethical concerns. Despite the threats to voice privacy, research to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Taesoo Kim , Jinju Kim , Dongchan Kim , Jong Hwan Ko , Gyeong-Moon Park