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Current Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems typically use separate models for speech-prompted and text-prompted timbre control. While unifying both control signals into a single model is desirable, the challenge of cross-modal alignment often…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zihao Zheng , Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Mengyue Wu , Xuenan Xu

Accurate control of the total duration of generated speech by adjusting the speech rate is crucial for various text-to-speech (TTS) applications. However, the impact of adjusting the speech rate on speech quality, such as intelligibility…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Xiaofei Wang , Manthan Thakker , Chung-Hsien Tsai , Canrun Li , Zhen Xiao , Hemin Yang , Zirun Zhu , Min Tang , Jinyu Li , Sheng Zhao , Naoyuki Kanda

Large language models are being rapidly deployed across many fields such as healthcare, finance, transportation, and energy, where time-series data are fundamental components. The current works are still limited in their ability to perform…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Paul Quinlan , Qingguo Li , Xiaodan Zhu

Text-to-speech (TTS) has advanced from generating natural-sounding speech to enabling fine-grained control over attributes like emotion, timbre, and style. Driven by rising industrial demand and breakthroughs in deep learning, e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianxin Xie , Yan Rong , Pengfei Zhang , Wenwu Wang , Li Liu

Given a piece of text, a video clip, and a reference audio, the movie dubbing task aims to generate speech that aligns with the video while cloning the desired voice. The existing methods have two primary deficiencies: (1) They struggle to…

Recently, there has been a growing interest in text-to-speech (TTS) methods that can be trained with minimal supervision by combining two types of discrete speech representations and using two sequence-to-sequence tasks to decouple TTS.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Hao Ni , He Qu , Ruibo Fu , Tao Wang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Automatic dubbing, which generates a corresponding version of the input speech in another language, could be widely utilized in many real-world scenarios such as video and game localization. In addition to synthesizing the translated…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jingbei Li , Sipan Li , Ping Chen , Luwen Zhang , Yi Meng , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang

Audio-Visual Speech-to-Speech Translation typically prioritizes improving translation quality and naturalness. However, an equally critical aspect in audio-visual content is lip-synchrony-ensuring that the movements of the lips match the…

We describe a system for large-scale audiovisual translation and dubbing, which translates videos from one language to another. The source language's speech content is transcribed to text, translated, and automatically synthesized into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Yi Yang , Brendan Shillingford , Yannis Assael , Miaosen Wang , Wendi Liu , Yutian Chen , Yu Zhang , Eren Sezener , Luis C. Cobo , Misha Denil , Yusuf Aytar , Nando de Freitas

Most existing neural-based text-to-speech methods rely on extensive datasets and face challenges under low-resource condition. In this paper, we introduce a novel semi-supervised text-to-speech synthesis model that learns from both paired…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Jianzong Wang , Pengcheng Li , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Cross-lingual emotional text-to-speech (TTS) aims to produce speech in one language that captures the emotion of a speaker from another language while maintaining the target voice's timbre. This process of cross-lingual emotional speech…

Most text-to-speech (TTS) methods use high-quality speech corpora recorded in a well-designed environment, incurring a high cost for data collection. To solve this problem, existing noise-robust TTS methods are intended to use noisy speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Takaaki Saeki , Kentaro Tachibana , Ryuichi Yamamoto

This paper proposes a controllable end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) system to control the speaking speed (speed-controllable TTS; SCTTS) of synthesized speech with sentence-level speaking-rate value as an additional input. The speaking-rate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Jae-Sung Bae , Hanbin Bae , Young-Sun Joo , Junmo Lee , Gyeong-Hoon Lee , Hoon-Young Cho

Recent advances in generative language modeling applied to discrete speech tokens presented a new avenue for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. These speech language models (SLMs), similarly to their textual counterparts, are scalable,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Siyang Wang , Éva Székely

End-to-end singing voice synthesis (SVS) is attractive due to the avoidance of pre-aligned data. However, the auto learned alignment of singing voice with lyrics is difficult to match the duration information in musical score, which will…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Tao Wang , Ruibo Fu , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Zhengqi Wen

Sequence expansion between encoder and decoder is a critical challenge in sequence-to-sequence TTS. Attention-based methods achieve great naturalness but suffer from unstable issues like missing and repeating phonemes, not to mention…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Yunchao He , Jian Luan , Yujun Wang

Recent studies have shown impressive performance in Lip-to-speech synthesis that aims to reconstruct speech from visual information alone. However, they have been suffering from synthesizing accurate speech in the wild, due to insufficient…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Minsu Kim , Joanna Hong , Yong Man Ro

In this paper, we present ControlSpeech, a text-to-speech (TTS) system capable of fully cloning the speaker's voice and enabling arbitrary control and adjustment of speaking style. Prior zero-shot TTS models only mimic the speaker's voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Shengpeng Ji , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Jialong Zuo , Minghui Fang , Ziyue Jiang , Hai Huang , Zehan Wang , Xize Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Zhou Zhao

Automatic dubbing aims at seamlessly replacing the speech in a video document with synthetic speech in a different language. The task implies many challenges, one of which is generating translations that not only convey the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Surafel M. Lakew , Marcello Federico , Yue Wang , Cuong Hoang , Yogesh Virkar , Roberto Barra-Chicote , Robert Enyedi

Large language model (LLM)-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems achieve remarkable naturalness via autoregressive (AR) decoding, but require N sequential steps to generate N speech tokens. We present LLaDA-TTS, which replaces the AR LLM with…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xiaoyu Fan , Huizhi Xie , Wei Zou , Yunzhang Chen