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Instruct Text-to-Speech (InstructTTS) leverages natural language descriptions as style prompts to guide speech synthesis. However, existing InstructTTS methods mainly rely on a direct combination of audio-related labels or their diverse…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yong Ren , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Haiyang Sun , Zhengqi Wen , Hao Gu , Le Xu , Ye Bai

This paper proposes VoxStudio, the first unified and end-to-end speech-to-image model that generates expressive images directly from spoken descriptions by jointly aligning linguistic and paralinguistic information. At its core is a speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Jiyoung Lee , Song Park , Sanghyuk Chun , Soo-Whan Chung

Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize different speaking style speech according to human's demands. Nowadays, there are two common ways to control speaking styles: (1) Pre-defining a group of speaking style and using…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Dongchao Yang , Songxiang Liu , Rongjie Huang , Chao Weng , Helen Meng

The effective communication of procedural knowledge remains a significant challenge in natural language processing (NLP), as purely textual instructions often fail to convey complex physical actions and spatial relationships. We address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jing Bi , Pinxin Liu , Ali Vosoughi , Jiarui Wu , Jinxi He , Chenliang Xu

Large language models generate fluent texts and can follow natural language instructions to solve a wide range of tasks without task-specific training. Nevertheless, it is notoriously difficult to control their generation to satisfy the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Wangchunshu Zhou , Yuchen Eleanor Jiang , Ethan Wilcox , Ryan Cotterell , Mrinmaya Sachan

Instruction-tuned large language models have shown remarkable performance in aligning generated text with user intentions across various tasks. However, maintaining human-like discourse structure in the generated text remains a challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yinhong Liu , Yixuan Su , Ehsan Shareghi , Nigel Collier

Text-to-speech (TTS) and text-to-music (TTM) models face significant limitations in instruction-based control. TTS systems usually depend on reference audio for timbre, offer only limited text-level attribute control, and rarely support…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Chunyu Qiang , Kang Yin , Xiaopeng Wang , Yuzhe Liang , Jiahui Zhao , Ruibo Fu , Tianrui Wang , Cheng Gong , Chen Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Recent advances in generative diffusion models have enabled text-controlled synthesis of realistic and diverse images with impressive quality. Despite these remarkable advances, the application of text-to-image generative models in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yulu Gan , Sungwoo Park , Alexander Schubert , Anthony Philippakis , Ahmed M. Alaa

This paper introduces a novel voice conversion (VC) model, guided by text instructions such as "articulate slowly with a deep tone" or "speak in a cheerful boyish voice". Unlike traditional methods that rely on reference utterances to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Chun-Yi Kuan , Chen An Li , Tsu-Yuan Hsu , Tse-Yang Lin , Ho-Lam Chung , Kai-Wei Chang , Shuo-yiin Chang , Hung-yi Lee

Large language models respond well in high-resource languages like English but struggle in low-resource languages. It may arise from the lack of high-quality instruction following data in these languages. Directly translating English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Chong Li , Wen Yang , Jiajun Zhang , Jinliang Lu , Shaonan Wang , Chengqing Zong

Large "instruction-tuned" language models (i.e., finetuned to respond to instructions) have demonstrated a remarkable ability to generalize zero-shot to new tasks. Nevertheless, they depend heavily on human-written instruction data that is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yizhong Wang , Yeganeh Kordi , Swaroop Mishra , Alisa Liu , Noah A. Smith , Daniel Khashabi , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Generating vivid and emotional 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for virtual avatar animation in human-machine interaction applications. While the existing methods enable generating the gestures to follow a single emotion label, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xingqun Qi , Jiahao Pan , Peng Li , Ruibin Yuan , Xiaowei Chi , Mengfei Li , Wenhan Luo , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Large language models show that simple autoregressive training can yield scalable and coherent generation, but extending this paradigm to speech remains challenging due to the entanglement of semantic and acoustic information. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Luca Della Libera , Cem Subakan , Mirco Ravanelli

This paper presents instruct-imagen, a model that tackles heterogeneous image generation tasks and generalizes across unseen tasks. We introduce *multi-modal instruction* for image generation, a task representation articulating a range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Hexiang Hu , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Yu-Chuan Su , Wenhu Chen , Yandong Li , Kihyuk Sohn , Yang Zhao , Xue Ben , Boqing Gong , William Cohen , Ming-Wei Chang , Xuhui Jia

Despite the effectiveness of vision-language supervised fine-tuning in enhancing the performance of Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs). However, existing visual instruction tuning datasets include the following limitations: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yangzhou Liu , Yue Cao , Zhangwei Gao , Weiyun Wang , Zhe Chen , Wenhai Wang , Hao Tian , Lewei Lu , Xizhou Zhu , Tong Lu , Yu Qiao , Jifeng Dai

Recent advancements in generative speech models based on audio-text prompts have enabled remarkable innovations like high-quality zero-shot text-to-speech. However, existing models still face limitations in handling diverse audio-text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Xiaofei Wang , Manthan Thakker , Zhuo Chen , Naoyuki Kanda , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Sanyuan Chen , Min Tang , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka

Despite recent advancements in speech generation with text prompt providing control over speech style, voice attributes in synthesized speech remain elusive and challenging to control. This paper introduces a novel task: voice attribute…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhengyan Sheng , Yang Ai , Li-Juan Liu , Jia Pan , Zhen-Hua Ling

We present a novel approach to multilingual audio-visual speech recognition tasks by introducing a single model on a multilingual dataset. Motivated by a human cognitive system where humans can intuitively distinguish different languages…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Joanna Hong , Se Jin Park , Yong Man Ro

While most research on controllable text generation has focused on steering base Language Models, the emerging instruction-tuning and prompting paradigm offers an alternate approach to controllability. We compile and release ConGenBench, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Dhananjay Ashok , Barnabas Poczos

Large language models are able to perform a task by conditioning on a few input-output demonstrations - a paradigm known as in-context learning. We show that language models can explicitly infer an underlying task from a few demonstrations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Or Honovich , Uri Shaham , Samuel R. Bowman , Omer Levy
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