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Current Text-to-Speech models pose a multilingual challenge, where most of the models traditionally focus on English and European languages, thereby hurting the potential to provide access to information to many more people. To address this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Jaskaran Singh , Amartya Roy Chowdhury , Raghav Prabhakar , Varshul C. W

We introduce MiniMax-Speech, an autoregressive Transformer-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) model that generates high-quality speech. A key innovation is our learnable speaker encoder, which extracts timbre features from a reference audio without…

This paper proposes a method for extracting a lightweight subset from a text-to-speech (TTS) corpus ensuring synthetic speech quality. In recent years, methods have been proposed for constructing large-scale TTS corpora by collecting…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Kentaro Seki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Takaaki Saeki , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Recent advances in neural multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) models have enabled the generation of reasonably good speech quality with a single model and made it possible to synthesize the speech of a speaker with limited training data.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Jinhyeok Yang , Jae-Sung Bae , Taejun Bak , Youngik Kim , Hoon-Young Cho

Many recently published Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems produce audio close to real speech. However, TTS evaluation needs to be revisited to make sense of the results obtained with the new architectures, approaches and datasets. We propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Christoph Minixhofer , Ondřej Klejch , Peter Bell

We propose PromptTTS++, a prompt-based text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system that allows control over speaker identity using natural language descriptions. To control speaker identity within the prompt-based TTS framework, we introduce the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Reo Shimizu , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Masaya Kawamura , Yuma Shirahata , Hironori Doi , Tatsuya Komatsu , Kentaro Tachibana

Reference-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) models can generate multiple, prosodically-different renditions of the same target text. Such models jointly learn a latent acoustic space during training, which can be sampled from during inference.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Atli Thor Sigurgeirsson , Simon King

This paper presents a method for end-to-end cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) which aims to preserve the target language's pronunciation regardless of the original speaker's language. The model used is based on a non-attentive Tacotron…

We propose UnitSpeech, a speaker-adaptive speech synthesis method that fine-tunes a diffusion-based text-to-speech (TTS) model using minimal untranscribed data. To achieve this, we use the self-supervised unit representation as a pseudo…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Heeseung Kim , Sungwon Kim , Jiheum Yeom , Sungroh Yoon

The cloning of a speaker's voice using an untranscribed reference sample is one of the great advances of modern neural text-to-speech (TTS) methods. Approaches for mimicking the prosody of a transcribed reference audio have also been…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Florian Lux , Julia Koch , Ngoc Thang Vu

With the rapid advancement in deep generative models, recent neural Text-To-Speech(TTS) models have succeeded in synthesizing human-like speech. There have been some efforts to generate speech with various prosody beyond monotonous prosody…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Seongho Joo , Hyukhun Koh , Kyomin Jung

Zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (ZS-TTS) systems have advanced for English, however, it still lags behind due to insufficient resources. We address this gap for Arabic, a language of more than 450 million native speakers, by first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Khai Duy Doan , Abdul Waheed , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

In this work, we address the Text-to-Speech (TTS) task by proposing a non-autoregressive architecture called EfficientTTS. Unlike the dominant non-autoregressive TTS models, which are trained with the need of external aligners, EfficientTTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Chenfeng Miao , Shuang Liang , Zhencheng Liu , Minchuan Chen , Jun Ma , Shaojun Wang , Jing Xiao

While recent zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) models have significantly improved speech quality and expressiveness, mainstream systems still suffer from issues related to speech-text alignment modeling: 1) models without explicit speech-text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Ziyue Jiang , Yi Ren , Ruiqi Li , Shengpeng Ji , Boyang Zhang , Zhenhui Ye , Chen Zhang , Bai Jionghao , Xiaoda Yang , Jialong Zuo , Yu Zhang , Rui Liu , Xiang Yin , Zhou Zhao

The goal of cross-speaker style transfer in TTS is to transfer a speech style from a source speaker with expressive data to a target speaker with only neutral data. In this context, we propose using a pre-trained singing voice conversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Leonardo B. de M. M. Marques , Lucas H. Ueda , Mário U. Neto , Flávio O. Simões , Fernando Runstein , Bianca Dal Bó , Paula D. P. Costa

Incremental text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis generates utterances in small linguistic units for the sake of real-time and low-latency applications. We previously proposed an incremental TTS method that leverages a large pre-trained language…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Takaaki Saeki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Spontaneous style speech synthesis, which aims to generate human-like speech, often encounters challenges due to the scarcity of high-quality data and limitations in model capabilities. Recent language model-based TTS systems can be trained…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Weiqin Li , Peiji Yang , Yicheng Zhong , Yixuan Zhou , Zhisheng Wang , Zhiyong Wu , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

Several recently proposed text-to-speech (TTS) models achieved to generate the speech samples with the human-level quality in the single-speaker and multi-speaker TTS scenarios with a set of pre-defined speakers. However, synthesizing a new…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Byoung Jin Choi , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Sung Hwan Mun , Nam Soo Kim

In this paper, we introduce a zero-shot Voice Transfer (VT) module that can be seamlessly integrated into a multi-lingual Text-to-speech (TTS) system to transfer an individual's voice across languages. Our proposed VT module comprises a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Fadi Biadsy , Youzheng Chen , Isaac Elias , Kyle Kastner , Gary Wang , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran