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In recent years, text-to-speech (TTS) technology has witnessed impressive advancements, particularly with large-scale training datasets, showcasing human-level speech quality and impressive zero-shot capabilities on unseen speakers.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Wen Wu , Helin Wang , Eng Siong Chng , Chao Zhang

The zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) method, based on speaker embeddings extracted from reference speech using self-supervised learning (SSL) speech representations, can reproduce speaker characteristics very accurately. However, this…

Despite the success of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) in language reasoning, its application to autoregressive Text-to-Image (T2I) generation is often constrained by the limited availability of human preference data. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yihang Chen , Yuanhao Ban , Yunqi Hong , Cho-Jui Hsieh

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

While flow-matching text-to-speech (TTS) achieves strong zero-shot speaker similarity and naturalness, it remains susceptible to content fidelity issues, particularly skip and repeat errors from imperfect alignment. We propose…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jinhyeok Yang , Hyeongju Kim , Yechan Yu , Joon Byun , Frederik Bous , Juheon Lee

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

Integrating human feedback to align text-to-speech (TTS) system outputs with human preferences has proven to be an effective approach for enhancing the robustness of language model-based TTS systems. Current approaches primarily focus on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Jixun Yao , Yuguang Yang , Yu Pan , Yuan Feng , Ziqian Ning , Jianhao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Xie

Zero-shot text-to-speech models can clone a speaker's timbre from a short reference audio, but they also strongly inherit the speaking style present in the reference. As a result, synthesizing speech with a desired style often requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Haitao Li , Chunxiang Jin , Chenglin Li , Wenhao Guan , Zhengxing Huang , Xie Chen

The advancements in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) methods, based on large-scale models, have demonstrated high fidelity in reproducing speaker characteristics. However, these models are too large for practical daily use. We propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Kenichi Fujita , Takanori Ashihara , Marc Delcroix , Yusuke Ijima

Reliable evaluation of modern zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) models remains challenging. Subjective tests are costly and hard to reproduce, while objective metrics often saturate, failing to distinguish SOTA systems. To address this, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Shengfan Shen , Di Wu , Xingchen Song , Dinghao Zhou , Liumeng Xue , Meng Meng , Jian Luan , Shuai Wang

This paper introduces Easy One-Step Text-to-Speech (E1 TTS), an efficient non-autoregressive zero-shot text-to-speech system based on denoising diffusion pretraining and distribution matching distillation. The training of E1 TTS is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Zhijun Liu , Shuai Wang , Pengcheng Zhu , Mengxiao Bi , Haizhou Li

We address zero-shot TTS systems' noise-robustness problem by proposing a dual-objective training for the speaker encoder using self-supervised DINO loss. This approach enhances the speaker encoder with the speech synthesis objective,…

This paper proposes a zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) conditioned by a self-supervised speech-representation model acquired through self-supervised learning (SSL). Conventional methods with embedding vectors from x-vector or global style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kenichi Fujita , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroki Kanagawa , Takafumi Moriya , Yusuke Ijima

Although recent neural text-to-speech (TTS) systems have achieved high-quality speech synthesis, there are cases where a TTS system generates low-quality speech, mainly caused by limited training data or information loss during knowledge…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Yeunju Choi , Youngmoon Jung , Youngjoo Suh , Hoirin Kim

Speech synthesis models convert written text into natural-sounding audio. While earlier models were limited to a single speaker, recent advancements have led to the development of zero-shot systems that generate realistic speech from a wide…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Łukasz Bondaruk , Jakub Kubiak

Although numerous recent studies have suggested new frameworks for zero-shot TTS using large-scale, real-world data, studies that focus on the intelligibility of zero-shot TTS are relatively scarce. Zero-shot TTS demands additional efforts…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Sunghee Jung , Won Jang , Jaesam Yoon , Bongwan Kim

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems offer the opportunity to compensate for a hearing loss at the source rather than correcting for it at the receiving end. This removes limitations such as time constraints for algorithms that amplify a sound in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Josef Schlittenlacher , Thomas Baer

Diffusion models produce high-fidelity speech but are inefficient for real-time use due to long denoising steps and challenges in modeling intonation and rhythm. To improve this, we propose Diffusion Loss-Guided Policy Optimization (DLPO),…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jingyi Chen , Ju Seung Byun , Micha Elsner , Pichao Wang , Andrew Perrault

Regressive Text-to-Speech (TTS) system utilizes attention mechanism to generate alignment between text and acoustic feature sequence. Alignment determines synthesis robustness (e.g, the occurence of skipping, repeating, and collapse) and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dengfeng Ke , Yayue Deng , Yukang Jia , Jinlong Xue , Qi Luo , Ya Li , Jianqing Sun , Jiaen Liang , Binghuai Lin

Existing autoregressive large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models have advantages in speech naturalness, but their token-by-token generation mechanism makes it difficult to precisely control the duration of synthesized speech. This becomes a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Siyi Zhou , Yiquan Zhou , Yi He , Xun Zhou , Jinchao Wang , Wei Deng , Jingchen Shu
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