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Text-to-speech (TTS) has advanced from generating natural-sounding speech to enabling fine-grained control over attributes like emotion, timbre, and style. Driven by rising industrial demand and breakthroughs in deep learning, e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianxin Xie , Yan Rong , Pengfei Zhang , Wenwu Wang , Li Liu

Semitic morphologically-rich languages (MRLs) are characterized by extreme word ambiguity. Because most vowels are omitted in standard texts, many of the words are homographs with multiple possible analyses, each with a different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Avi Shmidman , Cheyn Shmuel Shmidman , Dan Bareket , Moshe Koppel , Reut Tsarfaty

Hidden-Markov-model (HMM) based text-to-speech (HTS) offers flexibility in speaking styles along with fast training and synthesis while being computationally less intense. HTS performs well even in low-resource scenarios. The primary…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Sudhanshu Srivastava , Ishika Gupta , Anusha Prakash , Jom Kuriakose , Hema A. Murthy

This paper proposes a hierarchical and multi-scale variational autoencoder-based non-autoregressive text-to-speech model (HiMuV-TTS) to generate natural speech with diverse speaking styles. Recent advances in non-autoregressive TTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Jae-Sung Bae , Jinhyeok Yang , Tae-Jun Bak , Young-Sun Joo

An unsupervised text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system learns to generate speech waveforms corresponding to any written sentence in a language by observing: 1) a collection of untranscribed speech waveforms in that language; 2) a collection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Junrui Ni , Liming Wang , Heting Gao , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) generally consists of cascaded architecture with separately optimized acoustic model and vocoder, or end-to-end architecture with continuous mel-spectrograms or self-extracted speech frames as the intermediate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Ruiqing Xue , Yanqing Liu , Lei He , Xu Tan , Linquan Liu , Edward Lin , Sheng Zhao

Several high-resource Text to Speech (TTS) systems currently produce natural, well-established human-like speech. In contrast, low-resource languages, including Arabic, have very limited TTS systems due to the lack of resources. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Massa Baali , Tomoki Hayashi , Hamdy Mubarak , Soumi Maiti , Shinji Watanabe , Wassim El-Hajj , Ahmed Ali

Recent advances in Text-to-Speech (TTS) have improved quality and naturalness to near-human capabilities when considering isolated sentences. But something which is still lacking in order to achieve human-like communication is the dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Shubhi Tyagi , Marco Nicolis , Jonas Rohnke , Thomas Drugman , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

Existing Large Language Model (LLM) based autoregressive (AR) text-to-speech (TTS) systems, while achieving state-of-the-art quality, still face critical challenges. The foundation of this LLM-based paradigm is the discretization of the…

Controlling speaking style in text-to-speech (TTS) systems has become a growing focus in both academia and industry. While many existing approaches rely on reference audio to guide style generation, such methods are often impractical due to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Haowei Lou , Hye-Young Paik , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

We present a speaker conditioned text-to-speech (TTS) system aimed at addressing challenges in generating speech for unseen speakers and supporting diverse Indian languages. Our method leverages a diffusion-based TTS architecture, where a…

Language models require tokenized inputs. However, tokenization strategies for continuous data like audio and vision are often based on simple heuristics such as fixed sized convolutions or discrete clustering, which do not necessarily…

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The fusion of speech and language in the era of large language models has garnered significant attention. Discrete speech token is often utilized in text-to-speech tasks for speech compression and portability, which is convenient for joint…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yixing Li , Ruobing Xie , Xingwu Sun , Yu Cheng , Zhanhui Kang

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…

With the emergence of neural audio codecs, which encode multiple streams of discrete tokens from audio, large language models have recently gained attention as a promising approach for zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis. Despite the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-04 Jaehyeon Kim , Keon Lee , Seungjun Chung , Jaewoong Cho

Current synthetic speech detection (SSD) methods perform well on certain datasets but still face issues of robustness and interpretability. A possible reason is that these methods do not analyze the deficiencies of synthetic speech. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Yuxiang Zhang , Zhuo Li , Jingze Lu , Wenchao Wang , Pengyuan Zhang

Text-to-Speech (TTS) has recently seen great progress in synthesizing high-quality speech owing to the rapid development of parallel TTS systems, but producing speech with naturalistic prosodic variations, speaking styles and emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

Controllable TTS models with natural language prompts often lack the ability for fine-grained control and face a scarcity of high-quality data. We propose a two-stage style-controllable TTS system with language models, utilizing a quantized…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yongqi Wang , Chunlei Zhang , Hangting Chen , Zhou Zhao , Dong Yu

Text-to-speech (TTS) models have been widely adopted to enhance automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems using text-only corpora, thereby reducing the cost of labeling real speech data. Existing research primarily utilizes additional text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Jiawei Yu , Yuang Li , Xiaosong Qiao , Huan Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhao , Wei Tang , Min Zhang , Hao Yang , Jinsong Su

Recent advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology have led to natural-sounding speech for English, primarily due to the availability of large-scale, high-quality web data. However, many other languages lack access to such resources,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Srija Anand , Praveen Srinivasa Varadhan , Mehak Singal , Mitesh M. Khapra