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While neural methods for text-to-speech (TTS) have shown great advances in modeling multiple speakers, even in zero-shot settings, the amount of data needed for those approaches is generally not feasible for the vast majority of the world's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Florian Lux , Julia Koch , Ngoc Thang Vu

While recent zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) models achieve impressive results, they typically rely on extensive transcribed speech datasets from numerous speakers and intricate training pipelines. Meanwhile, self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Karl El Hajal , Ajinkya Kulkarni , Enno Hermann , Mathew Magimai. -Doss

Multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) using a few adaption data is a challenge in practical applications. To address that, we propose a zero-shot multi-speaker TTS, named nnSpeech, that could synthesis a new speaker voice without fine-tuning…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Botao Zhao , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

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

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…

Despite rapid progress in text-to-speech (TTS), open-source systems still lack truly instruction-following, fine-grained control over core speech attributes (e.g., pitch, speaking rate, age, emotion, and style). We present VoiceSculptor, an…

Large language models (LLM)-based speech synthesis has been widely adopted in zero-shot speech synthesis. However, they require a large-scale data and possess the same limitations as previous autoregressive speech models, including slow…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Sang-Hoon Lee , Ha-Yeong Choi , Seung-Bin Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Personalizing a speech synthesis system is a highly desired application, where the system can generate speech with the user's voice with rare enrolled recordings. There are two main approaches to build such a system in recent works: speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Sung-Feng Huang , Chyi-Jiunn Lin , Da-Rong Liu , Yi-Chen Chen , Hung-yi Lee

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

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

Zero-shot text-to-speech models can clone a speaker's timbre from a short reference audio, but they also strongly inherit the speaking style present in the reference. As a result, synthesizing speech with a desired style often requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Haitao Li , Chunxiang Jin , Chenglin Li , Wenhao Guan , Zhengxing Huang , Xie Chen

Zero-shot speaker adaptation aims to clone an unseen speaker's voice without any adaptation time and parameters. Previous researches usually use a speaker encoder to extract a global fixed speaker embedding from reference speech, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yixuan Zhou , Changhe Song , Xiang Li , Luwen Zhang , Zhiyong Wu , Yanyao Bian , Dan Su , Helen Meng

Recent advancements in generative speech models based on audio-text prompts have enabled remarkable innovations like high-quality zero-shot text-to-speech. However, existing models still face limitations in handling diverse audio-text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Xiaofei Wang , Manthan Thakker , Zhuo Chen , Naoyuki Kanda , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Sanyuan Chen , Min Tang , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka

This paper introduces DiFlow-TTS, a novel zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) system that employs discrete flow matching for generative speech modeling. We position this work as an entry point that may facilitate further advances in this…

We propose a neural text-to-speech (TTS) model that can imitate a new speaker's voice using only a small amount of speech sample. We demonstrate voice imitation using only a 6-seconds long speech sample without any other information such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Younggun Lee , Taesu Kim , Soo-Young Lee

Recently, large language model (LLM) based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have gradually become the mainstream in the industry due to their high naturalness and powerful zero-shot voice cloning capabilities.Here, we introduce the IndexTTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Wei Deng , Siyi Zhou , Jingchen Shu , Jinchao Wang , Lu Wang

Given a piece of speech and its transcript text, text-based speech editing aims to generate speech that can be seamlessly inserted into the given speech by editing the transcript. Existing methods adopt a two-stage approach: synthesize the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Chuanxin Tang , Chong Luo , Zhiyuan Zhao , Dacheng Yin , Yucheng Zhao , Wenjun Zeng

This study proposes FlexiVoice, a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system capable of flexible style control with zero-shot voice cloning. The speaking style is controlled by a natural-language instruction and the voice timbre is provided by a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Dekun Chen , Xueyao Zhang , Yuancheng Wang , Kenan Dai , Li Ma , Zhizheng Wu

Prior works have demonstrated zero-shot text-to-speech by using a generative language model on audio tokens obtained via a neural audio codec. It is still challenging, however, to adapt them to low-latency scenarios. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Trung Dang , David Aponte , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida

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