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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

In this paper we study the impact of augmenting spoken language corpora with domain-specific synthetic samples for the purpose of training a speech recognition system. Using both a conventional neural TTS system and a zero-shot one with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Mateusz Czyżnikiewicz , Łukasz Bondaruk , Jakub Kubiak , Adam Wiącek , Łukasz Degórski , Marek Kubis , Paweł Skórzewski

Text-to-Speech (TTS) models can generate natural, human-like speech across multiple languages by transforming phonemes into waveforms. However, multilingual TTS remains challenging due to discrepancies in phoneme vocabularies and variations…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Haowei Lou , Hye-young Paik , Sheng Li , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

Current end-to-end approaches to Spoken Language Translation (SLT) rely on limited training resources, especially for multilingual settings. On the other hand, Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MultiNMT) approaches rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Carlos Escolano , Marta R. Costa-jussà , José A. R. Fonollosa , Carlos Segura

Currently, there are increasing interests in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis to use sequence-to-sequence models with attention. These models are end-to-end meaning that they learn both co-articulation and duration properties directly from…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Bajibabu Bollepalli , Lauri Juvela , Paavo Alku

Customizable multilingual zero-shot singing voice synthesis (SVS) has various potential applications in music composition and short video dubbing. However, existing SVS models overly depend on phoneme and note boundary annotations, limiting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Yu Zhang , Wenxiang Guo , Changhao Pan , Dongyu Yao , Zhiyuan Zhu , Ziyue Jiang , Yuhan Wang , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

In this paper, we study the disentanglement of speaker and language representations in non-autoregressive cross-lingual TTS models from various aspects. We propose a phoneme length regulator that solves the length mismatch problem between…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Haoyue Zhan , Xinyuan Yu , Haitong Zhang , Yang Zhang , Yue Lin

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…

Recent trends in neural network based text-to-speech/speech synthesis pipelines have employed recurrent Seq2seq architectures that can synthesize realistic sounding speech directly from text characters. These systems however have complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Gary Wang

While recent advances in Text-To-Speech synthesis have yielded remarkable improvements in generating high-quality speech, research on lightweight and fast models is limited. This paper introduces FLY-TTS, a new fast, lightweight and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yinlin Guo , Yening Lv , Jinqiao Dou , Yan Zhang , Yuehai Wang

Most Zero-shot Multi-speaker TTS (ZS-TTS) systems support only a single language. Although models like YourTTS, VALL-E X, Mega-TTS 2, and Voicebox explored Multilingual ZS-TTS they are limited to just a few high/medium resource languages,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Edresson Casanova , Kelly Davis , Eren Gölge , Görkem Göknar , Iulian Gulea , Logan Hart , Aya Aljafari , Joshua Meyer , Reuben Morais , Samuel Olayemi , Julian Weber

In previous work, we developed a closed-loop speech chain model based on deep learning, in which the architecture enabled the automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) components to mutually improve their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

Today, a lot of research on language models is focused on large, general-purpose models. However, many NLP pipelines only require models with a well-defined, small set of capabilities. While large models are capable of performing the tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-17 David Schulmeister , Valentin Hartmann , Lars Klein , Robert West

Text-to-speech(TTS) has undergone remarkable improvements in performance, particularly with the advent of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs). However, the perceived quality of audio depends not solely on its content, pitch,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Huadai Liu , Rongjie Huang , Xuan Lin , Wenqiang Xu , Maozong Zheng , Hong Chen , Jinzheng He , Zhou Zhao

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) models can synthesize natural human speech when trained on large amounts of transcribed speech. However, collecting such large-scale transcribed data is expensive. This paper proposes an unsupervised pre-training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Seongyeon Park , Myungseo Song , Bohyung Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh

Text-to-speech (TTS) models have been widely adopted to enhance automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems using text-only corpora, thereby reducing the cost of labeling real speech data. Existing research primarily utilizes additional text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Jiawei Yu , Yuang Li , Xiaosong Qiao , Huan Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhao , Wei Tang , Min Zhang , Hao Yang , Jinsong Su

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

Voice cloning is a prominent feature in personalized speech interfaces. A neural vocal cloning system can mimic someone's voice using just a few audio samples. Both speaker encoding and speaker adaptation are topics of research in the field…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Manjil Karki , Pratik Shakya , Sandesh Acharya , Ravi Pandit , Dinesh Gothe

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…

Speech representation learning has improved both speech understanding and speech synthesis tasks for single language. However, its ability in cross-lingual scenarios has not been explored. In this paper, we extend the pretraining method for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Xiaoran Fan , Chao Pang , Tian Yuan , He Bai , Renjie Zheng , Pengfei Zhu , Shuohuan Wang , Junkun Chen , Zeyu Chen , Liang Huang , Yu Sun , Hua Wu