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Text-to-speech (TTS) development for African languages such as Luganda is still limited, primarily due to the scarcity of high-quality, single-speaker recordings essential for training TTS models. Prior work has focused on utilizing the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Sulaiman Kagumire , Andrew Katumba , Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende , John Quinn

The trend of scaling up speech generation models poses a threat of biometric information leakage of the identities of the voices in the training data, raising privacy and security concerns. In this paper, we investigate training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Wen-Chin Huang , Yi-Chiao Wu , Tomoki Toda

When the available data of a target speaker is insufficient to train a high quality speaker-dependent neural text-to-speech (TTS) system, we can combine data from multiple speakers and train a multi-speaker TTS model instead. Many studies…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-09 Hieu-Thi Luong , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Nobuyuki Nishizawa

While modern TTS technologies have made significant advancements in audio quality, there is still a lack of behavior naturalness compared to conversing with people. We propose a style-embedded TTS system that generates styled responses…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Yang Gao , Weiyi Zheng , Zhaojun Yang , Thilo Kohler , Christian Fuegen , Qing He

We present the second ever evaluated Arabic dialect-to-dialect machine translation effort, and the first to leverage external resources beyond a small parallel corpus. The subject has not previously received serious attention due to lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Alexander Erdmann , Nizar Habash , Dima Taji , Houda Bouamor

Existing data-to-text generation datasets are mostly limited to English. To address this lack of data, we create Table-to-Text in African languages (TaTa), the first large multilingual table-to-text dataset with a focus on African…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Sebastian Gehrmann , Sebastian Ruder , Vitaly Nikolaev , Jan A. Botha , Michael Chavinda , Ankur Parikh , Clara Rivera

Text-to-Speech (TTS) benchmarks often fail to capture how well models handle nuanced and semantically complex text. Building on $\textit{EmergentTTS}$, we introduce $\textit{EmergentTTS-Eval}$, a comprehensive benchmark covering six…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Ruskin Raj Manku , Yuzhi Tang , Xingjian Shi , Mu Li , Alex Smola

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

We introduce SPEAR-TTS, a multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) system that can be trained with minimal supervision. By combining two types of discrete speech representations, we cast TTS as a composition of two sequence-to-sequence tasks:…

Kashmiri is spoken by around 7 million people but remains critically underserved in speech technology, despite its official status and rich linguistic heritage. The lack of robust Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems limits digital accessibility…

End-to-end speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) systems typically struggle with a critical data bottleneck: the scarcity of parallel speech-to-speech corpora. To overcome this, we introduce RosettaSpeech, a novel zero-shot framework trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Zhisheng Zheng , Xiaohang Sun , Tuan Dinh , Abhishek Yanamandra , Abhinav Jain , Zhu Liu , Sunil Hadap , Vimal Bhat , Manoj Aggarwal , Gerard Medioni , David Harwath

Recently, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems, capable of synthesizing any speaker's voice from a short audio prompt, have made rapid advancements. However, the quality of the generated speech significantly deteriorates when the audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Xiaofei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Manthan Thakker , Hemin Yang , Zirun Zhu , Min Tang , Yufei Xia , Jinzhu Li , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li , Naoyuki Kanda

This paper introduces a high-quality open-source text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis dataset for Mongolian, a low-resource language spoken by over 10 million people worldwide. The dataset, named MnTTS, consists of about 8 hours of transcribed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Yifan Hu , Pengkai Yin , Rui Liu , Feilong Bao , Guanglai Gao

Tibetan is a low-resource language with limited parallel speech corpora spanning its three major dialects (\"U-Tsang, Amdo, and Kham), limiting progress in speech modeling. To address this issue, we propose TMD-TTS, a unified Tibetan…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yutong Liu , Ziyue Zhang , Ban Ma-bao , Renzeng Duojie , Yuqing Cai , Yongbin Yu , Xiangxiang Wang , Fan Gao , Cheng Huang , Nyima Tashi

With the similarity between music and speech synthesis from symbolic input and the rapid development of text-to-speech (TTS) techniques, it is worthwhile to explore ways to improve the MIDI-to-audio performance by borrowing from TTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xuan Shi , Erica Cooper , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Shrikanth Narayanan

Existing large-scale zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) models deliver high speech quality but suffer from slow inference speeds due to massive parameters. To address this issue, this paper introduces ZipVoice, a high-quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Han Zhu , Wei Kang , Zengwei Yao , Liyong Guo , Fangjun Kuang , Zhaoqing Li , Weiji Zhuang , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems are an important component in voice-based e-commerce applications. These applications include end-to-end voice assistant and customer experience (CX) voice bot. Code-mixed TTS is also relevant in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Raviraj Joshi , Nikesh Garera

Scaling Text-to-speech (TTS) to large-scale datasets has been demonstrated as an effective method for improving the diversity and naturalness of synthesized speech. At the high level, previous large-scale TTS models can be categorized into…

In this paper, we introduce a zero-shot Voice Transfer (VT) module that can be seamlessly integrated into a multi-lingual Text-to-speech (TTS) system to transfer an individual's voice across languages. Our proposed VT module comprises a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Fadi Biadsy , Youzheng Chen , Isaac Elias , Kyle Kastner , Gary Wang , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran

This research paper presents a comprehensive review-based study on various Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies. TTS technology is an important aspect of human-computer interaction, enabling machines to convert written text into audible…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Md. Jalal Uddin Chowdhury , Ashab Hussan