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Transformer-based text to speech (TTS) model (e.g., Transformer TTS~\cite{li2019neural}, FastSpeech~\cite{ren2019fastspeech}) has shown the advantages of training and inference efficiency over RNN-based model (e.g.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Mingjian Chen , Xu Tan , Yi Ren , Jin Xu , Hao Sun , Sheng Zhao , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

We introduce a text-to-speech(TTS) framework based on a neural transducer. We use discretized semantic tokens acquired from wav2vec2.0 embeddings, which makes it easy to adopt a neural transducer for the TTS framework enjoying its monotonic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Minchan Kim , Myeonghun Jeong , Byoung Jin Choi , Dongjune Lee , Nam Soo Kim

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

Personalizing a speech synthesis system is a highly desired application, where the system can generate speech with the user's voice with rare enrolled recordings. There are two main approaches to build such a system in recent works: speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Sung-Feng Huang , Chyi-Jiunn Lin , Da-Rong Liu , Yi-Chen Chen , Hung-yi Lee

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

The rapid growth of voice assistants powered by large language models (LLM) has highlighted a need for speech instruction data to train these systems. Despite the abundance of speech recognition data, there is a notable scarcity of speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Alan Dao , Dinh Bach Vu , Huy Hoang Ha , Tuan Le Duc Anh , Shreyas Gopal , Yue Heng Yeo , Warren Keng Hoong Low , Eng Siong Chng , Jia Qi Yip

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) generally consists of cascaded architecture with separately optimized acoustic model and vocoder, or end-to-end architecture with continuous mel-spectrograms or self-extracted speech frames as the intermediate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Ruiqing Xue , Yanqing Liu , Lei He , Xu Tan , Linquan Liu , Edward Lin , Sheng Zhao

LLM-based automatic speech recognition models demonstrate strong performance by connecting audio encoders and LLMs. However, data scarcity of paired speech and transcription often hinders their adaptation to new domains, making text-only…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ryo Magoshi , Takashi Maekaku , Yusuke Shinohara

Several recent end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) models enabling single-stage training and parallel sampling have been proposed, but their sample quality does not match that of two-stage TTS systems. In this work, we present a parallel…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Jaehyeon Kim , Jungil Kong , Juhee Son

Recent advancements in generative speech models based on audio-text prompts have enabled remarkable innovations like high-quality zero-shot text-to-speech. However, existing models still face limitations in handling diverse audio-text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Xiaofei Wang , Manthan Thakker , Zhuo Chen , Naoyuki Kanda , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Sanyuan Chen , Min Tang , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka

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

Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) has witnessed rapid progress in recent years, where neural methods became capable of producing audios with high naturalness. However, these efforts still suffer from two types of latencies: (a) the {\em…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mingbo Ma , Baigong Zheng , Kaibo Liu , Renjie Zheng , Hairong Liu , Kainan Peng , Kenneth Church , Liang Huang

This technical report presents MOSS-TTS, a speech generation foundation model built on a scalable recipe: discrete audio tokens, autoregressive modeling, and large-scale pretraining. Built on MOSS-Audio-Tokenizer, a causal Transformer…

Self-supervised learning (SSL) representations from massively multilingual models offer a promising solution for low-resource language speech tasks. Despite advancements, language adaptation in TTS systems remains an open problem. This…

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) has gained significant attention due to its powerful voice cloning capabilities, requiring only a few seconds of unseen speaker voice prompts. However, all previous work has been developed for cloud-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Shengpeng Ji , Ziyue Jiang , Hanting Wang , Jialong Zuo , Zhou Zhao

Integrating audio comprehension and generation into large language models (LLMs) remains challenging due to the continuous nature of audio and the resulting high sampling rates. Here, we introduce a novel approach that combines Variational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Shivam Mehta , Nebojsa Jojic , Hannes Gamper

In this paper, we present StyleTTS 2, a text-to-speech (TTS) model that leverages style diffusion and adversarial training with large speech language models (SLMs) to achieve human-level TTS synthesis. StyleTTS 2 differs from its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Vinay S. Raghavan , Gavin Mischler , Nima Mesgarani

An unsupervised text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system learns to generate speech waveforms corresponding to any written sentence in a language by observing: 1) a collection of untranscribed speech waveforms in that language; 2) a collection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Junrui Ni , Liming Wang , Heting Gao , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems find broad applications in voice assistants, e-learning, and audiobook creation. The pursuit of modern models, like Diffusion Models (DMs), holds promise for achieving high-fidelity, real-time speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiang Li , Fan Bu , Ambuj Mehrish , Yingting Li , Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

Training a text-to-speech (TTS) model requires a large scale text labeled speech corpus, which is troublesome to collect. In this paper, we propose a transfer learning framework for TTS that utilizes a large amount of unlabeled speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Minchan Kim , Myeonghun Jeong , Byoung Jin Choi , Sunghwan Ahn , Joun Yeop Lee , Nam Soo Kim