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Deep learning has led to considerable advances in text-to-speech synthesis. Most recently, the adoption of Score-based Generative Models (SGMs), also known as Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs), has gained traction due to their ability…

The diffusion model is capable of generating high-quality data through a probabilistic approach. However, it suffers from the drawback of slow generation speed due to the requirement of a large number of time steps. To address this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Myeongjin Ko , Yong-Hoon Choi

Text-to-speech(TTS) has undergone remarkable improvements in performance, particularly with the advent of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs). However, the perceived quality of audio depends not solely on its content, pitch,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Huadai Liu , Rongjie Huang , Xuan Lin , Wenqiang Xu , Maozong Zheng , Hong Chen , Jinzheng He , Zhou Zhao

Transformer-based text to speech (TTS) model (e.g., Transformer TTS~\cite{li2019neural}, FastSpeech~\cite{ren2019fastspeech}) has shown the advantages of training and inference efficiency over RNN-based model (e.g.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Mingjian Chen , Xu Tan , Yi Ren , Jin Xu , Hao Sun , Sheng Zhao , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

This paper presents a method to accelerate the inference process of diffusion transformer (DiT)-based text-to-speech (TTS) models by applying a selective caching mechanism to transformer layers. Specifically, I integrate SmoothCache into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Siratish Sakpiboonchit

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

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…

This paper proposes a zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) conditioned by a self-supervised speech-representation model acquired through self-supervised learning (SSL). Conventional methods with embedding vectors from x-vector or global style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kenichi Fujita , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroki Kanagawa , Takafumi Moriya , Yusuke Ijima

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

Modern zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems, despite using extensive pre-training, often struggle in challenging scenarios such as tongue twisters, repeated words, code-switching, and cross-lingual synthesis, leading to intelligibility…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Xueyao Zhang , Yuancheng Wang , Chaoren Wang , Ziniu Li , Zhuo Chen , Zhizheng Wu

We present SALAD, a zero-shot TTS autoregressive model operating over continuous speech representations. SALAD utilizes a per-token diffusion process to refine and predict continuous representations for the next time step. We compare our…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Arnon Turetzky , Avihu Dekel , Nimrod Shabtay , Slava Shechtman , David Haws , Hagai Aronowitz , Ron Hoory , Yossi Adi

Large-language-model (LLM)-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems can generate natural speech, but most are not designed for low-latency dual-streaming synthesis. High-quality dual-streaming TTS depends on accurate text--speech alignment and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Hanwen Liu , Saierdaer Yusuyin , Hao Huang , Zhijian Ou

The task of few-shot style transfer for voice cloning in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims at transferring speaking styles of an arbitrary source speaker to a target speaker's voice using very limited amount of neutral data. This is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Songxiang Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu

Few-shot speaker adaptation is a specific Text-to-Speech (TTS) system that aims to reproduce a novel speaker's voice with a few training data. While numerous attempts have been made to the few-shot speaker adaptation system, there is still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Ji-Hoon Kim , Sang-Hoon Lee , Ji-Hyun Lee , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

Recent advances in generative models, such as diffusion and flow matching, have shown strong performance in audio tasks. However, speech enhancement (SE) models are typically trained on limited datasets and evaluated under narrow…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Tianyu Cao , Helin Wang , Ari Frummer , Yuval Sieradzki , Adi Arbel , Laureano Moro Velazquez , Jesus Villalba , Oren Gal , Thomas Thebaud , Najim Dehak

Recently, synthesizing personalized speech by text-to-speech (TTS) application is highly demanded. But the previous TTS models require a mass of target speaker speeches for training. It is a high-cost task, and hard to record lots of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Scaling text-to-speech (TTS) with autoregressive language model (LM) to large-scale datasets by quantizing waveform into discrete speech tokens is making great progress to capture the diversity and expressiveness in human speech, but the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Chong Zhang , Yanqing Liu , Yang Zheng , Sheng Zhao

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…

There has been a significant progress in Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis technology in recent years, thanks to the advancement in neural generative modeling. However, existing methods on any-speaker adaptive TTS have achieved unsatisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Minki Kang , Dongchan Min , Sung Ju Hwang

Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) technology have increased demand for personalized audio synthesis. Zero-shot voice cloning, a specialized TTS task, aims to synthesize a target speaker's voice using only a single audio sample and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ming Meng , Ziyi Yang , Jian Yang , Zhenjie Su , Yonggui Zhu , Zhaoxin Fan