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Neural text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis can generate speech that is indistinguishable from natural speech. However, the synthetic speech often represents the average prosodic style of the database instead of having more versatile prosodic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Tuomo Raitio , Jiangchuan Li , Shreyas Seshadri

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

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

Speech synthesis technology has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, enabling the creation of natural and expressive synthetic speech. One area of particular interest is the generation of synthetic child speech, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Rishabh Jain , Peter Corcoran

While prompt-based text-to-speech (TTS) models enable natural language-driven speaking style control, they often provide limited fine-grained control and apply a single global style across an utterance. This restricts practical use cases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jaehoon Kang , Yejin Lee , Yoonji Park , Kyuhong Shim

We present SALAD, a zero-shot TTS autoregressive model operating over continuous speech representations. SALAD utilizes a per-token diffusion process to refine and predict continuous representations for the next time step. We compare our…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Arnon Turetzky , Avihu Dekel , Nimrod Shabtay , Slava Shechtman , David Haws , Hagai Aronowitz , Ron Hoory , Yossi Adi

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has gradually become popular as it has many advantages compared with cascade S2ST. However, current research mainly focuses on the accuracy of semantic translation and ignores the speech style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Kun Song , Yi Ren , Yi Lei , Chunfeng Wang , Kun Wei , Lei Xie , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma

Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) have enabled accurate imitation of reference speech in terms of both speaking style and speaker timbre. However, achieving disentangled control over these aspects from separate references…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Yoonhyung Lee , Hyunsin Park , Jinhwan Park , Jinkyu Lee

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:…

Speaker-adaptive Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis has attracted considerable attention due to its broad range of applications, such as personalized voice assistant services. While several approaches have been proposed, they often exhibit high…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wooseok Han , Minki Kang , Changhun Kim , Eunho Yang

In this paper, we present ControlSpeech, a text-to-speech (TTS) system capable of fully cloning the speaker's voice and enabling arbitrary control and adjustment of speaking style. Prior zero-shot TTS models only mimic the speaker's voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Shengpeng Ji , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Jialong Zuo , Minghui Fang , Ziyue Jiang , Hai Huang , Zehan Wang , Xize Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Zhou Zhao

Lip-to-Speech (Lip2Speech) synthesis, which predicts corresponding speech from talking face images, has witnessed significant progress with various models and training strategies in a series of independent studies. However, existing studies…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zheng-Yan Sheng , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved human-like synthetic speech for single-speaker, single-language synthesis. Multilingual TTS systems are limited to resource-rich languages due to the lack of large paired text and studio-quality…

While recent large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models have achieved significant progress, they still fall short in speech quality, similarity, and prosody. Considering speech intricately encompasses various attributes (e.g., content,…

Current voice conversion (VC) methods can successfully convert timbre of the audio. As modeling source audio's prosody effectively is a challenging task, there are still limitations of transferring source style to the converted speech. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Zhichao Wang , Xinyong Zhou , Fengyu Yang , Tao Li , Hongqiang Du , Lei Xie , Wendong Gan , Haitao Chen , Hai Li

Neural codec language models achieve impressive zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) by fully imitating the acoustic characteristics of a short speech prompt, including timbre, prosody, and paralinguistic information. However, such holistic…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hanchen Pei , Shujie Liu , Yanqing Liu , Jianwei Yu , Yuanhang Qian , Gongping Huang , Sheng Zhao , Yan Lu

Speech editing and zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) share a similar generative foundation conditioned on speech prompts, yet speech editing demands far stricter local acoustic consistency with surrounding unedited content. While prior work…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Junyang Chen , Yuhang Jia , Hui Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Yongchang Gan , Yong Qin

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

Large-scale pre-trained language models have been shown to be helpful in improving the naturalness of text-to-speech (TTS) models by enabling them to produce more naturalistic prosodic patterns. However, these models are usually word-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Xilin Jiang , Nima Mesgarani

While neural text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved human-like natural synthetic speech, multilingual TTS systems are limited to resource-rich languages due to the need for paired text and studio-quality audio data. This paper proposes a method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Takaaki Saeki , Soumi Maiti , Xinjian Li , Shinji Watanabe , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari