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Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in speech synthesis, but typically require multi-step sampling, resulting in low inference efficiency. Recent studies address this issue by distilling diffusion models into…

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End-to-end simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) outputs translation while receiving the streaming speech inputs (a.k.a. streaming speech translation), and hence needs to segment the speech inputs and then translate based on the current…

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Large-scale latent diffusion models (LDMs) excel in content generation across various modalities, but their reliance on phonemes and durations in text-to-speech (TTS) limits scalability and access from other fields. While recent studies…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Keon Lee , Dong Won Kim , Jaehyeon Kim , Seungjun Chung , Jaewoong Cho

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, such as Tacotron and WaveRNN, have made it possible to construct a fully neural network based TTS system, by coupling the two components together. Such a system is conceptually simple as it…

Real-world speech recordings suffer from degradations such as background noise and reverberation. Speech enhancement aims to mitigate these issues by generating clean high-fidelity signals. While recent generative approaches for speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Heitor R. Guimarães , Jiaqi Su , Rithesh Kumar , Tiago H. Falk , Zeyu Jin

Simultaneous Speech Translation (SimulST) enables real-time cross-lingual communication by jointly optimizing speech recognition and machine translation under strict latency constraints. Existing systems struggle to balance translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Chenyang Le , Bing Han , Jinshun Li , Songyong Chen , Yanmin Qian

Text-to-speech (TTS) methods have shown promising results in voice cloning, but they require a large number of labeled text-speech pairs. Minimally-supervised speech synthesis decouples TTS by combining two types of discrete speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Yixin Tian , Yi Zhao , Ying Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Diffusion models are a class of generative models that have been recently used for speech enhancement with remarkable success but are computationally expensive at inference time. Therefore, these models are impractical for processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Bunlong Lay , Rostislav Makarov , Timo Gerkmann

This paper presents CrossVoice, a novel cascade-based Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST) system employing advanced ASR, MT, and TTS technologies with cross-lingual prosody preservation through transfer learning. We conducted comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Medha Hira , Arnav Goel , Anubha Gupta

We propose PolyVoice, a language model-based framework for speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system. Our framework consists of two language models: a translation language model and a speech synthesis language model. We use discretized…

Talking head synthesis, also known as speech-to-lip synthesis, reconstructs the facial motions that align with the given audio tracks. The synthesized videos are evaluated on mainly two aspects, lip-speech synchronization and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xulin Fan , Heting Gao , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei Han , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

How to make human-interpreter-like read/write decisions for simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) systems? Current state-of-the-art systems formulate SimulST as a multi-turn dialogue task, requiring specialized interleaved training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Haotian Tan , Hiroki Ouchi , Sakriani Sakti

Recent progress in diffusion-based Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) demonstrates strong expressiveness but remains limited by data scarcity and model scalability. We introduce a two-stage pipeline: a compact seed set of human-sung recordings…

There has been a significant progress in Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis technology in recent years, thanks to the advancement in neural generative modeling. However, existing methods on any-speaker adaptive TTS have achieved unsatisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Minki Kang , Dongchan Min , Sung Ju Hwang

Diffusion-based speech generators are ubiquitous. These methods can generate very high quality synthetic speech and several recent incidents report their malicious use. To counter such misuse, synthetic speech detectors have been developed.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Kratika Bhagtani , Amit Kumar Singh Yadav , Paolo Bestagini , Edward J. Delp

This paper introduces F5-TTS, a fully non-autoregressive text-to-speech system based on flow matching with Diffusion Transformer (DiT). Without requiring complex designs such as duration model, text encoder, and phoneme alignment, the text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Yushen Chen , Zhikang Niu , Ziyang Ma , Keqi Deng , Chunhui Wang , Jian Zhao , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

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

Speech-to-text translation (ST), which translates source language speech into target language text, has attracted intensive attention in recent years. Compared to the traditional pipeline system, the end-to-end ST model has potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuchen Liu , Jiajun Zhang , Hao Xiong , Long Zhou , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Chengqing Zong

Diffusion models have shown strong performance in speech enhancement, but their real-time applicability has been limited by multi-step iterative sampling. Consistency distillation has recently emerged as a promising alternative by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Liang Xu , Longfei Felix Yan , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

A primary challenge when deploying speaker recognition systems in real-world applications is performance degradation caused by environmental mismatch. We propose a diffusion-based method that takes speaker embeddings extracted from a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 KiHyun Nam , Jungwoo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Gangin Park , Chaeyoung Jung , Ha-Jin Yu , Joon Son Chung