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In this paper, we propose a textless acoustic model with a self-supervised distillation strategy for noise-robust expressive speech-to-speech translation (S2ST). Recently proposed expressive S2ST systems have achieved impressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Min-Jae Hwang , Ilia Kulikov , Benjamin Peloquin , Hongyu Gong , Peng-Jen Chen , Ann Lee

Scaling text-to-speech (TTS) to large-scale, multi-speaker, and in-the-wild datasets is important to capture the diversity in human speech such as speaker identities, prosodies, and styles (e.g., singing). Current large TTS systems usually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Kai Shen , Zeqian Ju , Xu Tan , Yanqing Liu , Yichong Leng , Lei He , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Jiang Bian

Diffusion speech enhancement on discrete audio codec features gain immense attention due to their improved speech component reconstruction capability. However, they usually suffer from high inference computational complexity due to multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Yihui Fu , Tim Fingscheidt

We present a textless speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system that can translate speech from one language into another language and can be built without the need of any text data. Different from existing work in the literature, we tackle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Ann Lee , Hongyu Gong , Paul-Ambroise Duquenne , Holger Schwenk , Peng-Jen Chen , Changhan Wang , Sravya Popuri , Yossi Adi , Juan Pino , Jiatao Gu , Wei-Ning Hsu

We present a simple yet effective approach to build multilingual speech-to-text (ST) translation by efficient transfer learning from pretrained speech encoder and text decoder. Our key finding is that a minimalistic LNA (LayerNorm and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Xian Li , Changhan Wang , Yun Tang , Chau Tran , Yuqing Tang , Juan Pino , Alexei Baevski , Alexis Conneau , Michael Auli

In the Text-to-speech(TTS) task, the latent diffusion model has excellent fidelity and generalization, but its expensive resource consumption and slow inference speed have always been a challenging. This paper proposes Discrete Diffusion…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zhichao Wu , Qiulin Li , Sixing Liu , Qun Yang

We present Translatotron 2, a neural direct speech-to-speech translation model that can be trained end-to-end. Translatotron 2 consists of a speech encoder, a linguistic decoder, an acoustic synthesizer, and a single attention module that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Ye Jia , Michelle Tadmor Ramanovich , Tal Remez , Roi Pomerantz

The fusion of speech and language in the era of large language models has garnered significant attention. Discrete speech token is often utilized in text-to-speech tasks for speech compression and portability, which is convenient for joint…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yixing Li , Ruobing Xie , Xingwu Sun , Yu Cheng , Zhanhui Kang

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have recently achieved leading performances in many generative tasks. However, the inherited iterative sampling process costs hindered their applications to speech synthesis. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-22 Rongjie Huang , Max W. Y. Lam , Jun Wang , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Yi Ren , Zhou Zhao

We introduce SupertonicTTS, a novel text-to-speech (TTS) system designed for efficient and streamlined speech synthesis. SupertonicTTS comprises three components: a speech autoencoder for continuous latent representation, a text-to-latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Hyeongju Kim , Jinhyeok Yang , Yechan Yu , Seunghun Ji , Jacob Morton , Frederik Bous , Joon Byun , Juheon Lee

Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST) refers to the conversion of speech in one language into semantically equivalent speech in another language, facilitating communication between speakers of different languages. Speech-to-Discrete Unit…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Rui Zhou , Akinori Ito , Takashi Nose

We present a multispeaker, multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis model based on Tacotron that is able to produce high quality speech in multiple languages. Moreover, the model is able to transfer voices across languages, e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Heiga Zen , Yonghui Wu , Zhifeng Chen , RJ Skerry-Ryan , Ye Jia , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Generative models have attracted considerable attention for speech separation tasks, and among these, diffusion-based methods are being explored. Despite the notable success of diffusion techniques in generation tasks, their adaptation to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Jinwei Dong , Xinsheng Wang , Qirong Mao

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have shown promising performance for speech synthesis. However, a large number of iterative steps are required to achieve high sample quality, which restricts the inference speed. Maintaining…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhen Ye , Wei Xue , Xu Tan , Jie Chen , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

We propose Easy End-to-End Diffusion-based Text to Speech, a simple and efficient end-to-end text-to-speech model based on diffusion. E3 TTS directly takes plain text as input and generates an audio waveform through an iterative refinement…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yuan Gao , Nobuyuki Morioka , Yu Zhang , Nanxin Chen

This report presents VibeVoice, a novel model designed to synthesize long-form speech with multiple speakers by employing next-token diffusion, which is a unified method for modeling continuous data by autoregressively generating latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zhiliang Peng , Jianwei Yu , Wenhui Wang , Yaoyao Chang , Yutao Sun , Li Dong , Yi Zhu , Weijiang Xu , Hangbo Bao , Zehua Wang , Shaohan Huang , Yan Xia , Furu Wei

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

Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST) has gained increasing attention for its ability to translate speech from one language to another, while reducing error propagation and latency inherent in traditional cascaded pipelines. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Lalaram Arya , Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee , Adarsh C. R. , S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna

It is relatively easy to mine a large parallel corpus for any machine learning task, such as speech-to-text or speech-to-speech translation. Although these mined corpora are large in volume, their quality is questionable. This work shows…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam , Antonios Anastasopoulos

Diffusion-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have made remarkable progress in zero-shot speech synthesis, yet optimizing all components for perceptual metrics remains challenging. Prior work with DMOSpeech demonstrated direct metric…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Yinghao Aaron Li , Xilin Jiang , Fei Tao , Cheng Niu , Kaifeng Xu , Juntong Song , Nima Mesgarani