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Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

Benefiting from the development of deep learning, text-to-speech (TTS) techniques using clean speech have achieved significant performance improvements. The data collected from real scenes often contains noise and generally needs to be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Qiushi Zhu , Yu Gu , Rilin Chen , Chao Weng , Yuchen Hu , Lirong Dai , Jie Zhang

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems offer the opportunity to compensate for a hearing loss at the source rather than correcting for it at the receiving end. This removes limitations such as time constraints for algorithms that amplify a sound in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Josef Schlittenlacher , Thomas Baer

This technical report presents MOSS-TTS, a speech generation foundation model built on a scalable recipe: discrete audio tokens, autoregressive modeling, and large-scale pretraining. Built on MOSS-Audio-Tokenizer, a causal Transformer…

We propose a novel two-stage text-to-speech (TTS) framework with two types of discrete tokens, i.e., semantic and acoustic tokens, for high-fidelity speech synthesis. It features two core components: the Interpreting module, which processes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Joun Yeop Lee , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Ji-Hyun Lee , Hoon-Young Cho , Nam Soo Kim

We introduce a text-to-speech(TTS) framework based on a neural transducer. We use discretized semantic tokens acquired from wav2vec2.0 embeddings, which makes it easy to adopt a neural transducer for the TTS framework enjoying its monotonic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Minchan Kim , Myeonghun Jeong , Byoung Jin Choi , Dongjune Lee , Nam Soo Kim

Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) powered by language models have showcased remarkable capabilities in achieving naturalness and zero-shot voice cloning. Notably, the decoder-only transformer is the prominent architecture in this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Théodor Lemerle , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

Scaling text-to-speech to a large and wild dataset has been proven to be highly effective in achieving timbre and speech style generalization, particularly in zero-shot TTS. However, previous works usually encode speech into latent using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Ziyue Jiang , Yi Ren , Zhenhui Ye , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Qian Yang , Shengpeng Ji , Rongjie Huang , Chunfeng Wang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems are an important component in voice-based e-commerce applications. These applications include end-to-end voice assistant and customer experience (CX) voice bot. Code-mixed TTS is also relevant in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Raviraj Joshi , Nikesh Garera

We present a meta-learning approach for adaptive text-to-speech (TTS) with few data. During training, we learn a multi-speaker model using a shared conditional WaveNet core and independent learned embeddings for each speaker. The aim of…

End-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) has shown great success on large quantities of paired text plus speech data. However, laborious data collection remains difficult for at least 95% of the languages over the world, which hinders the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Tao Tu , Yuan-Jui Chen , Cheng-chieh Yeh , Hung-yi Lee

Scaling Text-to-speech (TTS) to large-scale datasets has been demonstrated as an effective method for improving the diversity and naturalness of synthesized speech. At the high level, previous large-scale TTS models can be categorized into…

Speech-to-text translation has many potential applications for low-resource languages, but the typical approach of cascading speech recognition with machine translation is often impossible, since the transcripts needed to train a speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Sameer Bansal , Herman Kamper , Karen Livescu , Adam Lopez , Sharon Goldwater

While state-of-the-art Text-to-Speech systems can generate natural speech of very high quality at sentence level, they still meet great challenges in speech generation for paragraph / long-form reading. Such deficiencies are due to i)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yujia Xiao , Shaofei Zhang , Xi Wang , Xu Tan , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Frank K. Soong , Tan Lee

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…

Text-to-speech (TTS) technology has achieved impressive results for widely spoken languages, yet many under-resourced languages remain challenged by limited data and linguistic complexities. In this paper, we present a novel methodology…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Yizhong Geng , Jizhuo Xu , Zeyu Liang , Jinghan Yang , Xiaoyi Shi , Xiaoyu Shen

Various threats posed by the progress in text-to-speech (TTS) have prompted the need to reliably trace synthesized speech. However, contemporary approaches to this task involve adding watermarks to the audio separately after generation, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Junzuo Zhou , Jiangyan Yi , Tao Wang , Jianhua Tao , Ye Bai , Chu Yuan Zhang , Yong Ren , Zhengqi Wen

While recent advancements in speech language models have achieved significant progress, they face remarkable challenges in modeling the long acoustic sequences of neural audio codecs. In this paper, we introduce \textbf{G}enerative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yongxin Zhu , Dan Su , Liqiang He , Linli Xu , Dong Yu

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

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