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Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) is a task to convert texts into speech. Two of the factors that have been driving TTS are the advancements of probabilistic models and latent representation learning. We propose a TTS method based on latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Yusuke Yasuda , Tomoki Toda

This paper describes Mixer-TTS, a non-autoregressive model for mel-spectrogram generation. The model is based on the MLP-Mixer architecture adapted for speech synthesis. The basic Mixer-TTS contains pitch and duration predictors, with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Oktai Tatanov , Stanislav Beliaev , Boris Ginsburg

With the advancement of speech synthesis technology, users have higher expectations for the naturalness and expressiveness of synthesized speech. But previous research ignores the importance of prompt selection. This study proposes a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Dan Luo , Chengyuan Ma , Weiqin Li , Jun Wang , Wei Chen , Zhiyong Wu

Text-to-Speech (TTS) models can generate natural, human-like speech across multiple languages by transforming phonemes into waveforms. However, multilingual TTS remains challenging due to discrepancies in phoneme vocabularies and variations…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Haowei Lou , Hye-young Paik , Sheng Li , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

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

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

Some recent studies have demonstrated the feasibility of single-stage neural text-to-speech, which does not need to generate mel-spectrograms but generates the raw waveforms directly from the text. Single-stage text-to-speech often faces…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Zhengxi Liu , Qiao Tian , Chenxu Hu , Xudong Liu , Menglin Wu , Yuping Wang , Hang Zhao , Yuxuan Wang

Language Model (LM)-based generative modeling has emerged as a promising direction for TSE, offering potential for improved generalization and high-fidelity speech. We present GenTSE, a two-stage decoder-only generative LM approach for TSE:…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Haoyang Li , Xuyi Zhuang , Azmat Adnan , Ye Ni , Wei Rao , Shreyas Gopal , Eng Siong Chng

Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis has seen renewed progress under the discrete modeling paradigm. Existing autoregressive approaches often rely on single-codebook representations, which suffer from significant information loss. Even with…

Tokenising continuous speech into sequences of discrete tokens and modelling them with language models (LMs) has led to significant success in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. Although these models can generate speech with high quality and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Zehai Tu , Guangyan Zhang , Yiting Lu , Adaeze Adigwe , Simon King , Yiwen Guo

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

In recent years, speech generation has seen remarkable progress, now achieving one-shot generation capability that is often virtually indistinguishable from real human voice. Integrating such advancements in speech generation with large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Paweł Budzianowski , Taras Sereda , Tomasz Cichy , Ivan Vulić

In this paper, we present SANE-TTS, a stable and natural end-to-end multilingual TTS model. By the difficulty of obtaining multilingual corpus for given speaker, training multilingual TTS model with monolingual corpora is unavoidable. We…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Hyunjae Cho , Wonbin Jung , Junhyeok Lee , Sang Hoon Woo

Recently, Text-to-speech (TTS) models based on large language models (LLMs) that translate natural language text into sequences of discrete audio tokens have gained great research attention, with advances in neural audio codec (NAC) models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Yuto Nishimura , Takumi Hirose , Masanari Ohi , Hideki Nakayama , Nakamasa Inoue

Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have achieved high-quality speech generation for unseen speakers, but most systems remain unsuitable for real-time applications because of their offline design. Current streaming…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hui Wang , Yifan Yang , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Lingwei Meng , Yanqing Liu , Jiaming Zhou , Haoqin Sun , Yan Lu , Yong Qin

Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems find broad applications in voice assistants, e-learning, and audiobook creation. The pursuit of modern models, like Diffusion Models (DMs), holds promise for achieving high-fidelity, real-time speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiang Li , Fan Bu , Ambuj Mehrish , Yingting Li , Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

Recent advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have enabled the generation of natural and expressive speech from textual input. Accented TTS aims to enhance user experience by making the synthesized speech more relatable to minority…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Jan Melechovsky , Ambuj Mehrish , Berrak Sisman , Dorien Herremans

While autoregressive speech token generation models produce speech with remarkable variety and naturalness, their inherent lack of controllability often results in issues such as hallucinations and undesired vocalizations that do not…

We describe a sequence-to-sequence neural network which directly generates speech waveforms from text inputs. The architecture extends the Tacotron model by incorporating a normalizing flow into the autoregressive decoder loop. Output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ron J. Weiss , RJ Skerry-Ryan , Eric Battenberg , Soroosh Mariooryad , Diederik P. Kingma

Historically, most speech models in machine-learning have used the mel-spectrogram as a speech representation. Recently, discrete audio tokens produced by neural audio codecs have become a popular alternate speech representation for speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Ryan Langman , Ante Jukić , Kunal Dhawan , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jason Li