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This study investigates voice mapping as an evaluation framework for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis quality. The study analyzes six TTS models, including historical and recent ones. The metrics are crest factor, spectrum balance, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Huanchen Cai , Sten Ternström

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems have seen significant advancements in recent years, driven by improvements in deep learning and neural network architectures. Viewing the output speech as a data distribution, previous approaches often employ…

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) systems, gradually becoming the mainstream approach. However, most current approaches address these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Wenhao Guan , Zhikang Niu , Ziyue Jiang , Kaidi Wang , Peijie Chen , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li , Xie Chen

Modern voice cloning, also known as zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), can synthesize speech that closely matches a target speaker from only seconds of reference audio, enabling applications such as personalized speech interfaces and dubbing.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruinan Jin , Xinting Liao , Hanlin Yu , Deval Pandya , Xiaoxiao Li

Advances in speech representation and large language models have enhanced zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) performance. However, existing zero-shot TTS models face challenges in capturing the complex correlations between acoustic and semantic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Jingyuan Xing , Zhipeng Li , Jialong Mai , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu

This work proposes FireRedTTS, a foundation text-to-speech framework, to meet the growing demands for personalized and diverse generative speech applications. The framework comprises three parts: data processing, foundation system, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Hao-Han Guo , Yao Hu , Kun Liu , Fei-Yu Shen , Xu Tang , Yi-Chen Wu , Feng-Long Xie , Kun Xie , Kai-Tuo Xu

Existing zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems are typically designed to process complete sentences and are constrained by the maximum duration for which they have been trained. However, in many streaming applications, texts arrive…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Trung Dang , David Aponte , Dung Tran , Tianyi Chen , Kazuhito Koishida

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…

While recent Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech (ZS-TTS) models have achieved high naturalness and speaker similarity, they fall short in accent fidelity and control. To address this issue, we propose zero-shot accent generation that unifies Foreign…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jinzuomu Zhong , Korin Richmond , Zhiba Su , Siqi Sun

We introduce a text-to-speech (TTS) model called BASE TTS, which stands for $\textbf{B}$ig $\textbf{A}$daptive $\textbf{S}$treamable TTS with $\textbf{E}$mergent abilities. BASE TTS is the largest TTS model to-date, trained on 100K hours of…

We present a new neural text to speech (TTS) method that is able to transform text to speech in voices that are sampled in the wild. Unlike other systems, our solution is able to deal with unconstrained voice samples and without requiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Yaniv Taigman , Lior Wolf , Adam Polyak , Eliya Nachmani

This paper describes progress towards making a Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) Frontend that works for many languages and can be easily extended to new languages. We take a Machine Translation (MT) inspired approach to constructing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Alistair Conkie , Andrew Finch

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…

This work introduces TTS-Transducer - a novel architecture for text-to-speech, leveraging the strengths of audio codec models and neural transducers. Transducers, renowned for their superior quality and robustness in speech recognition, are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Vladimir Bataev , Subhankar Ghosh , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Jason Li

We propose FEIM-TTS, an innovative zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) model that synthesizes emotionally expressive speech, aligned with facial images and modulated by emotion intensity. Leveraging deep learning, FEIM-TTS transcends traditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yunji Chu , Yunseob Shim , Unsang Park

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

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved text-to-speech (TTS) systems, enhancing control over speech style, naturalness, and emotional expression, which brings TTS Systems closer to human-level…

Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize different speaking style speech according to human's demands. Nowadays, there are two common ways to control speaking styles: (1) Pre-defining a group of speaking style and using…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Dongchao Yang , Songxiang Liu , Rongjie Huang , Chao Weng , Helen Meng

It is well known that LLM-based systems are data-hungry. Recent LLM-based TTS works typically employ complex data processing pipelines to obtain high-quality training data. These sophisticated pipelines require excellent models at each…

Tibetan text-to-speech (TTS) has long been challenged by scarce speech resources, significant dialectal variation, and the complex mapping between written text and spoken pronunciation. To address these issues, this work presents, to the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jiaxu He , Chao Wang , Jie Lian , Yuqing Cai , Yongxiang Li , Renzeg Duojie , Jie Li