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We present a lightweight adaptable neural TTS system with high quality output. The system is composed of three separate neural network blocks: prosody prediction, acoustic feature prediction and Linear Prediction Coding Net as a neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Zvi Kons , Slava Shechtman , Alex Sorin , Carmel Rabinovitz , Ron Hoory

In this paper, we propose a text-to-speech (TTS)-driven data augmentation method for improving the quality of a non-autoregressive (AR) TTS system. Recently proposed non-AR models, such as FastSpeech 2, have successfully achieved fast…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Min-Jae Hwang , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Eunwoo Song , Jae-Min Kim

Most existing neural-based text-to-speech methods rely on extensive datasets and face challenges under low-resource condition. In this paper, we introduce a novel semi-supervised text-to-speech synthesis model that learns from both paired…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Jianzong Wang , Pengcheng Li , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Different languages have distinct phonetic systems and vary in their prosodic features making it challenging to develop a Text-to-Speech (TTS) model that can effectively synthesise speech in multilingual settings. Furthermore, TTS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yingting Li , Ambuj Mehrish , Bryan Chew , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

The increased adoption of digital assistants makes text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems an indispensable feature of modern mobile devices. It is hence desirable to build a system capable of generating highly intelligible speech in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Dipjyoti Paul , Muhammed PV Shifas , Yannis Pantazis , Yannis Stylianou

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…

This paper introduces Embarrassingly Easy Text-to-Speech (E2 TTS), a fully non-autoregressive zero-shot text-to-speech system that offers human-level naturalness and state-of-the-art speaker similarity and intelligibility. In the E2 TTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Xiaofei Wang , Manthan Thakker , Canrun Li , Chung-Hsien Tsai , Zhen Xiao , Hemin Yang , Zirun Zhu , Min Tang , Xu Tan , Yanqing Liu , Sheng Zhao , Naoyuki Kanda

Speaker-adaptive Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis has attracted considerable attention due to its broad range of applications, such as personalized voice assistant services. While several approaches have been proposed, they often exhibit high…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wooseok Han , Minki Kang , Changhun Kim , Eunho Yang

Text-to-Speech (TTS) system is a system where speech is synthesized from a given text following any particular approach. Concatenative synthesis, Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based synthesis, Deep Learning (DL) based synthesis with multiple…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Prithwiraj Bhattacharjee , Rajan Saha Raju , Arif Ahmad , M. Shahidur Rahman

Controlling the style and characteristics of speech synthesis is crucial for adapting the output to specific contexts and user requirements. Previous Text-to-speech (TTS) works have focused primarily on the technical aspects of producing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Jiawei Zhang , Tian-Hao Zhang , Jun Wang , Jiaran Gao , Xinyuan Qian , Xu-Cheng Yin

This paper proposes a controllable end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) system to control the speaking speed (speed-controllable TTS; SCTTS) of synthesized speech with sentence-level speaking-rate value as an additional input. The speaking-rate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Jae-Sung Bae , Hanbin Bae , Young-Sun Joo , Junmo Lee , Gyeong-Hoon Lee , Hoon-Young Cho

Accent plays a significant role in speech communication, influencing one's capability to understand as well as conveying a person's identity. This paper introduces a novel and efficient framework for accented Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Jan Melechovsky , Ambuj Mehrish , Berrak Sisman , Dorien Herremans

Intonations play an important role in delivering the intention of a speaker. However, current end-to-end TTS systems often fail to model proper intonations. To alleviate this problem, we propose a novel, intuitive method to synthesize…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Jihwan Lee , Joun Yeop Lee , Heejin Choi , Seongkyu Mun , Sangjun Park , Jae-Sung Bae , Chanwoo Kim

Scaling text-to-speech (TTS) to large-scale, multi-speaker, and in-the-wild datasets is important to capture the diversity in human speech such as speaker identities, prosodies, and styles (e.g., singing). Current large TTS systems usually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Kai Shen , Zeqian Ju , Xu Tan , Yanqing Liu , Yichong Leng , Lei He , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Jiang Bian

This work introduces MELA-TTS, a novel joint transformer-diffusion framework for end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis. By autoregressively generating continuous mel-spectrogram frames from linguistic and speaker conditions, our architecture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Keyu An , Zhiyu Zhang , Changfeng Gao , Yabin Li , Zhendong Peng , Haoxu Wang , Zhihao Du , Han Zhao , Zhifu Gao , Xiangang Li

In this report, we present the Qwen3-TTS series, a family of advanced multilingual, controllable, robust, and streaming text-to-speech models. Qwen3-TTS supports state-of-the-art 3-second voice cloning and description-based control,…

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems are being built using end-to-end deep learning approaches. However, these systems require huge amounts of training data. We present our approach to built production quality TTS and perform speaker adaptation in…

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

In neural text-to-speech (TTS), two-stage system or a cascade of separately learned models have shown synthesis quality close to human speech. For example, FastSpeech2 transforms an input text to a mel-spectrogram and then HiFi-GAN…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Dan Lim , Sunghee Jung , Eesung Kim

Text-to-Speech (TTS) models can generate natural, human-like speech across multiple languages by transforming phonemes into waveforms. However, multilingual TTS remains challenging due to discrepancies in phoneme vocabularies and variations…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Haowei Lou , Hye-young Paik , Sheng Li , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) systems require several hours of recorded speech data to generate high-quality synthetic speech. When using reduced amounts of training data, standard TTS models suffer from speech quality and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Adam Gabryś , Goeric Huybrechts , Manuel Sam Ribeiro , Chung-Ming Chien , Julian Roth , Giulia Comini , Roberto Barra-Chicote , Bartek Perz , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba
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