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Recent parallel neural text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis methods are able to generate speech with high fidelity while maintaining high performance. However, these systems often lack control over the output prosody, thus restricting the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Shreyas Seshadri , Tuomo Raitio , Dan Castellani , Jiangchuan Li

Large audio-language models increasingly operate on raw speech inputs, enabling more seamless integration across domains such as voice assistants, education, and clinical triage. This transition, however, introduces a distinct class of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ye Yu , Haibo Jin , Yaoning Yu , Jun Zhuang , Haohan Wang

Spoken Language Models (SLMs) are increasingly central to modern speech-driven applications, but performance degrades under acoustic shift - real-world noise, reverberation, and microphone variation. Prior solutions rely on offline domain…

Adaptive text to speech (TTS) can synthesize new voices in zero-shot scenarios efficiently, by using a well-trained source TTS model without adapting it on the speech data of new speakers. Considering seen and unseen speakers have diverse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Yihan Wu , Xu Tan , Bohan Li , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Ruihua Song , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Recent approaches in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis employ neural network strategies to vocode perceptually-informed spectrogram representations directly into listenable waveforms. Such vocoding procedures create a computational bottleneck…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Paarth Neekhara , Chris Donahue , Miller Puckette , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley

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

This paper proposes a method for selecting training data for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis from dark data. TTS models are typically trained on high-quality speech corpora that cost much time and money for data collection, which makes it…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Kentaro Seki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Takaaki Saeki , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Parallel text-to-speech (TTS) models have recently enabled fast and highly-natural speech synthesis. However, they typically require external alignment models, which are not necessarily optimized for the decoder as they are not jointly…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Bac Nguyen , Fabien Cardinaux , Stefan Uhlich

Modern text-to-speech synthesis pipelines typically involve multiple processing stages, each of which is designed or learnt independently from the rest. In this work, we take on the challenging task of learning to synthesise speech from…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Jeff Donahue , Sander Dieleman , Mikołaj Bińkowski , Erich Elsen , Karen Simonyan

Recently, tampered text detection has attracted increasing attention due to its essential role in information security. Although existing methods can detect the tampered text region, the interpretation of such detection remains unclear,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Chenfan Qu , Jian Liu , Haoxing Chen , Baihan Yu , Jingjing Liu , Weiqiang Wang , Lianwen Jin

High-quality and intelligible speech is essential to text-to-speech (TTS) model training, however, obtaining high-quality data for low-resource languages is challenging and expensive. Applying speech enhancement on Automatic Speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Zhaoheng Ni , Sravya Popuri , Ning Dong , Kohei Saijo , Xiaohui Zhang , Gael Le Lan , Yangyang Shi , Vikas Chandra , Changhan Wang

Although neural text-to-speech (TTS) models have attracted a lot of attention and succeeded in generating human-like speech, there is still room for improvements to its naturalness and architectural efficiency. In this work, we propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Myeonghun Jeong , Hyeongju Kim , Sung Jun Cheon , Byoung Jin Choi , Nam Soo Kim

Semantic communication is a promising technology to improve communication efficiency by transmitting only the semantic information of the source data. However, traditional semantic communication methods primarily focus on data…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jiahao Zheng , Jinke Ren , Peng Xu , Zhihao Yuan , Jie Xu , Fangxin Wang , Gui Gui , Shuguang Cui

Auto-regressive speech-text models pre-trained on interleaved text tokens and discretized speech tokens demonstrate strong speech understanding and generation, yet remain substantially less compute-efficient than text LLMs, partly due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yen-Ju Lu , Yashesh Gaur , Wei Zhou , Benjamin Muller , Jesus Villalba , Najim Dehak , Luke Zettlemoyer , Gargi Ghosh , Mike Lewis , Srinivasan Iyer , Duc Le

Text to speech (TTS) is a crucial task for user interaction, but TTS model training relies on a sizable set of high-quality original datasets. Due to privacy and security issues, the original datasets are usually unavailable directly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Zhenhou Hong , Jianzong Wang , Xiaoyang Qu , Jie Liu , Chendong Zhao , Jing Xiao

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

Token-based text-to-speech (TTS) models have emerged as a promising avenue for generating natural and realistic speech, yet they grapple with low pronunciation accuracy, speaking style and timbre inconsistency, and a substantial need for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunhui Wang , Chang Zeng , Bowen Zhang , Ziyang Ma , Yefan Zhu , Zifeng Cai , Jian Zhao , Zhonglin Jiang , Yong Chen

Attention based neural TTS is elegant speech synthesis pipeline and has shown a powerful ability to generate natural speech. However, it is still not robust enough to meet the stability requirements for industrial products. Besides, it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Qiao Tian , Zewang Zhang , Chao Liu , Heng Lu , Linghui Chen , Bin Wei , Pujiang He , Shan Liu

End-to-end neural TTS training has shown improved performance in speech style transfer. However, the improvement is still limited by the training data in both target styles and speakers. Inadequate style transfer performance occurs when the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Xiaochun An , Frank K. Soong , Lei Xie

Current end-to-end code-switching Text-to-Speech (TTS) can already generate high quality two languages speech in the same utterance with single speaker bilingual corpora. When the speakers of the bilingual corpora are different, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Chunyu Qiang , Jianhua Tao , Ruibo Fu , Zhengqi Wen , Jiangyan Yi , Tao Wang , Shiming Wang