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Methods for modeling and controlling prosody with acoustic features have been proposed for neural text-to-speech (TTS) models. Prosodic speech can be generated by conditioning acoustic features. However, synthesized speech with a large…

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

Automatically generating textual content with desired attributes is an ambitious task that people have pursued long. Existing works have made a series of progress in incorporating unimodal controls into language models (LMs), whereas how to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Haoqin Tu , Bowen Yang , Xianfeng Zhao

This paper proposes a flexible multichannel speech enhancement system with the main goal of improving robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy conditions. The proposed system combines a flexible neural mask estimator…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Ante Jukić , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

Controllable speech synthesis refers to the precise control of speaking style by manipulating specific prosodic and paralinguistic attributes, such as gender, volume, speech rate, pitch, and pitch fluctuation. With the integration of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ziyu Zhang , Hanzhao Li , Jingbin Hu , Wenhao Li , Lei Xie

While generative methods have progressed rapidly in recent years, generating expressive prosody for an utterance remains a challenging task in text-to-speech synthesis. This is particularly true for systems that model prosody explicitly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Paul Mayer , Florian Lux , Alejandro Pérez-González-de-Martos , Angelina Elizarova , Lindsey Vanderlyn , Dirk Väth , Ngoc Thang Vu

Accented text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis seeks to generate speech with an accent (L2) as a variant of the standard version (L1). Accented TTS synthesis is challenging as L2 is different from L1 in both in terms of phonetic rendering and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Rui Liu , Berrak Sisman , Guanglai Gao , Haizhou Li

Generating controllable indoor scenes is fundamental to applications in game development, architectural visualization, and embodied AI. However, existing approaches either support a limited input modalities or rely on implicit generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Wentang Chen , Shougao Zhang , Yiman Zhang , Tianhao Zhou , Ruihui Li

Recent breakthroughs in language-queried audio source separation (LASS) have shown that generative models can achieve higher separation audio quality than traditional masking-based approaches. However, two key limitations restrict their…

Recent texture generation methods achieve impressive results due to the powerful generative prior they leverage from large-scale text-to-image diffusion models. However, abstract textual prompts are limited in providing global textural or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 DaDong Jiang , Xianghui Yang , Zibo Zhao , Sheng Zhang , Jiaao Yu , Zeqiang Lai , Shaoxiong Yang , Chunchao Guo , Xiaobo Zhou , Zhihui Ke

Spoken dialogue generation is crucial for applications like podcasts, dynamic commentary, and entertainment content, but poses significant challenges compared to single-utterance text-to-speech (TTS). Key requirements include accurate…

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

When people deliver a speech, they naturally move heads, and this rhythmic head motion conveys prosodic information. However, generating a lip-synced video while moving head naturally is challenging. While remarkably successful, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Lele Chen , Guofeng Cui , Celong Liu , Zhong Li , Ziyi Kou , Yi Xu , Chenliang Xu

We describe speaker-independent speech synthesis driven by a small set of phonetically meaningful speech parameters such as formant frequencies. The intention is to leverage deep-learning advances to provide a highly realistic signal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Pablo Pérez Zarazaga , Zofia Malisz , Gustav Eje Henter , Lauri Juvela

Audio is an essential part of our life, but creating it often requires expertise and is time-consuming. Research communities have made great progress over the past year advancing the performance of large scale audio generative models for a…

In spoken conversations, spontaneous behaviors like filled pause and prolongations always happen. Conversational partner tends to align features of their speech with their interlocutor which is known as entrainment. To produce human-like…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Jian Cong , Shan Yang , Na Hu , Guangzhi Li , Lei Xie , Dan Su

State-of-the-art speech synthesis models try to get as close as possible to the human voice. Hence, modelling emotions is an essential part of Text-To-Speech (TTS) research. In our work, we selected FastSpeech2 as the starting point and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Daria Diatlova , Vitaly Shutov

We propose ClipFace, a novel self-supervised approach for text-guided editing of textured 3D morphable model of faces. Specifically, we employ user-friendly language prompts to enable control of the expressions as well as appearance of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

The problem of synthetic speech detection has enjoyed considerable attention, with recent methods achieving low error rates across several established benchmarks. However, to what extent can low error rates on academic benchmarks translate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Ashi Garg , Zexin Cai , Lin Zhang , Henry Li Xinyuan , Leibny Paola García-Perera , Kevin Duh , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Matthew Wiesner , Nicholas Andrews

Speech separation and enhancement (SSE) has advanced remarkably and achieved promising results in controlled settings, such as a fixed number of speakers and a fixed array configuration. Towards a universal SSE system, single-channel…

Custom voice, a specific text to speech (TTS) service in commercial speech platforms, aims to adapt a source TTS model to synthesize personal voice for a target speaker using few speech data. Custom voice presents two unique challenges for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Mingjian Chen , Xu Tan , Bohan Li , Yanqing Liu , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu