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Neural network based end-to-end text to speech (TTS) has significantly improved the quality of synthesized speech. Prominent methods (e.g., Tacotron 2) usually first generate mel-spectrogram from text, and then synthesize speech from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Yi Ren , Yangjun Ruan , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Zhou Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

When virtual agents interact with humans, gestures are crucial to delivering their intentions with speech. Previous multimodal co-speech gesture generation models required encoded features of all modalities to generate gestures. If some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Gwantae Kim , Seonghyeok Noh , Insung Ham , Hanseok Ko

Modern sequence to sequence neural TTS systems provide close to natural speech quality. Such systems usually comprise a network converting linguistic/phonetic features sequence to an acoustic features sequence, cascaded with a neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Slava Shechtman , Alex Sorin

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in speech synthesis, but typically require multi-step sampling, resulting in low inference efficiency. Recent studies address this issue by distilling diffusion models into…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Tao Zhu , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Fuchun Sun , Wendong Zheng

Text-to-Speech (TTS) models have advanced significantly, aiming to accurately replicate human speech's diversity, including unique speaker identities and linguistic nuances. Despite these advancements, achieving an optimal balance between…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Jinhyeok Yang , Junhyeok Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Seunghun Ji , Hyeongju Kim , Juheon Lee

Whisper generation is constrained by the difficulty of data collection. Because whispered speech has low acoustic amplitude, high-fidelity recording is challenging. In this paper, we introduce WhispSynth, a large-scale multilingual corpus…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tianyi Tan , Jiaxin Ye , Yuanming Zhang , Xiaohuai Le , Xianjun Xia , Chuanzeng Huang , Jing Lu

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, particularly those leveraging large language models (LLMs), have significantly improved expressiveness and naturalness. However, generating human-like, interactive dialogue speech remains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Hanke Xie , Dake Guo , Chengyou Wang , Yue Li , Wenjie Tian , Xinfa Zhu , Xinsheng Wang , Xiulin Li , Guanqiong Miao , Bo Liu , Lei Xie

Speech synthesis technology has brought great convenience, while the widespread usage of realistic deepfake audio has triggered hazards. Malicious adversaries may unauthorizedly collect victims' speeches and clone a similar voice for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zhisheng Zhang , Derui Wang , Qianyi Yang , Pengyang Huang , Junhan Pu , Yuxin Cao , Kai Ye , Jie Hao , Yixian Yang

In the existing cross-speaker style transfer task, a source speaker with multi-style recordings is necessary to provide the style for a target speaker. However, it is hard for one speaker to express all expected styles. In this paper, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-24 Qicong Xie , Tao Li , Xinsheng Wang , Zhichao Wang , Lei Xie , Guoqiao Yu , Guanglu Wan

We present FastPitch, a fully-parallel text-to-speech model based on FastSpeech, conditioned on fundamental frequency contours. The model predicts pitch contours during inference. By altering these predictions, the generated speech can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Adrian Łańcucki

High-quality speech dialogue datasets are crucial for Speech-LLM development, yet existing acquisition methods face significant limitations. Human recordings incur high costs and privacy concerns, while synthetic approaches often lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Minghan Wang , Ye Bai , Yuxia Wang , Thuy-Trang Vu , Ehsan Shareghi , Gholamreza Haffari

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

Authoring realistic haptic textures typically requires low-level parameter tuning and repeated trial-and-error, limiting speed, transparency, and creative reach. We present a language-driven authoring system that turns natural-language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Wanli Qian , Aiden Chang , Shihan Lu , Michael Gu , Heather Culbertson

Audio-driven talking head generation is crucial for applications in virtual reality, digital avatars, and film production. While NeRF-based methods enable high-fidelity reconstruction, they suffer from low rendering efficiency and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Tianheng Zhu , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Fuchun Sun , Wendong Zheng

Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize speeches with human-like tones, moods, or even artistic attributes. Recent advancements in expressive TTS empower users with the ability to directly control synthesis style through natural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Hanglei Zhang , Yiwei Guo , Sen Liu , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

In multi-speaker speech synthesis, data from a number of speakers usually tend to have great diversity due to the fact that the speakers may differ largely in ages, speaking styles, emotions, and so on. It is important but challenging to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Qinghua Wu , Quanbo Shen , Jian Luan , YuJun Wang

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 accurate lip synchronization has been achieved for arbitrary-subject audio-driven talking face generation, the problem of how to efficiently drive the head pose remains. Previous methods rely on pre-estimated structural information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Hang Zhou , Yasheng Sun , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Xiaogang Wang , Ziwei Liu

Multi-modal large language models are regarded as a crucial step towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and have garnered significant interest with the emergence of ChatGPT. However, current speech-language models typically adopt the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Dong Zhang , Shimin Li , Xin Zhang , Jun Zhan , Pengyu Wang , Yaqian Zhou , Xipeng Qiu

Text to Speech (TTS) models can generate natural and high-quality speech, but it is not expressive enough when synthesizing speech with dramatic expressiveness, such as stand-up comedies. Considering comedians have diverse personal speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yuyue Wang , Huan Xiao , Yihan Wu , Ruihua Song