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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

In recent years, Text-To-Speech (TTS) has been used as a data augmentation technique for speech recognition to help complement inadequacies in the training data. Correspondingly, we investigate the use of a multi-speaker TTS system to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Yiling Huang , Yutian Chen , Jason Pelecanos , Quan Wang

Zero-shot multi-speaker TTS aims to synthesize speech with the voice of a chosen target speaker without any fine-tuning. Prevailing methods, however, encounter limitations at adapting to new speakers of out-of-domain settings, primarily due…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yejin Jeon , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems typically require high-quality studio data and accurate transcriptions for training. India has 1369 languages, with 22 official using 13 scripts. Training a TTS system for all these languages, most of which have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Utkarsh Pathak , Chandra Sai Krishna Gunda , Anusha Prakash , Keshav Agarwal , Hema A. Murthy

While automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved remarkable performance with large-scale datasets, their efficacy remains inadequate in low-resource settings, encompassing dialects, accents, minority languages, and long-tail…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Guanrou Yang , Fan Yu , Ziyang Ma , Zhihao Du , Zhifu Gao , Shiliang Zhang , Xie Chen

While prompt-based text-to-speech (TTS) models enable natural language-driven speaking style control, they often provide limited fine-grained control and apply a single global style across an utterance. This restricts practical use cases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jaehoon Kang , Yejin Lee , Yoonji Park , Kyuhong Shim

Flow-Matching (FM)-based zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems exhibit high-quality speech synthesis and robust generalization capabilities. However, the speaker representation ability of such systems remains underexplored, primarily due…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Haoyu Li , Mingyang Han , Yu Xi , Dongxiao Wang , Hankun Wang , Haoxiang Shi , Boyu Li , Jun Song , Bo Zheng , Shuai Wang , Kai Yu

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

While modern TTS technologies have made significant advancements in audio quality, there is still a lack of behavior naturalness compared to conversing with people. We propose a style-embedded TTS system that generates styled responses…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Yang Gao , Weiyi Zheng , Zhaojun Yang , Thilo Kohler , Christian Fuegen , Qing He

The rapid development of large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models has led to significant advancements in modeling diverse speaker prosody and voices. However, these models often face issues such as slow inference speeds, reliance on complex…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Yinghao Aaron Li , Xilin Jiang , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

This research paper presents a comprehensive review-based study on various Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies. TTS technology is an important aspect of human-computer interaction, enabling machines to convert written text into audible…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Md. Jalal Uddin Chowdhury , Ashab Hussan

Controllable text-to-speech (TTS) systems face significant challenges in achieving independent manipulation of speaker timbre and speaking style, often suffering from entanglement between these attributes. We present DMP-TTS, a latent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Kang Yin , Chunyu Qiang , Sirui Zhao , Xiaopeng Wang , Yuzhe Liang , Pengfei Cai , Tong Xu , Chen Zhang , Enhong Chen

Audio-driven talking face has attracted broad interest from academia and industry recently. However, data acquisition and labeling in audio-driven talking face are labor-intensive and costly. The lack of data resource results in poor…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Qi Chen , Ziyang Ma , Tao Liu , Xu Tan , Qu Lu , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Recently, data-driven task-oriented dialogue systems have achieved promising performance in English. However, developing dialogue systems that support low-resource languages remains a long-standing challenge due to the absence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Zhaojiang Lin , Peng Xu , Pascale Fung

Although diffusion-based, non-autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems have demonstrated impressive zero-shot synthesis capabilities, their efficacy is still hindered by two key challenges: the difficulty of text-speech alignment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Chunyat Wu , Jiajun Deng , Zhengxi Liu , Zheqi Dai , Haolin He , Qiuqiang Kong

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

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

State-of-the-art Text-To-Speech (TTS) models are capable of producing high-quality speech. The generated speech, however, is usually neutral in emotional expression, whereas very often one would want fine-grained emotional control of words…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Shijun Wang , Jón Guðnason , Damian Borth

With the emergence of neural audio codecs, which encode multiple streams of discrete tokens from audio, large language models have recently gained attention as a promising approach for zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis. Despite the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-04 Jaehyeon Kim , Keon Lee , Seungjun Chung , Jaewoong Cho

Recently, test-time adaptation has garnered attention as a method for tuning models without labeled data. The conventional modus operandi for adapting pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) during test-time primarily focuses on tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Raza Imam , Asif Hanif , Jian Zhang , Khaled Waleed Dawoud , Yova Kementchedjhieva , Mohammad Yaqub