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Zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) has recently advanced significantly, enabling models to synthesize speech from text using short, limited-context prompts. These prompts serve as voice exemplars, allowing the model to mimic speaker identity,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hieu-Nghia Huynh-Nguyen , Huynh Nguyen Dang , Ngoc-Son Nguyen , Van Nguyen

Despite advances in deep learning, current state-of-the-art speech emotion recognition (SER) systems still have poor performance due to a lack of speech emotion datasets. This paper proposes augmenting SER systems with synthetic emotional…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Abdullah Shahid , Siddique Latif , Junaid Qadir

Current emotional text-to-speech (TTS) models predominantly conduct supervised training to learn the conversion from text and desired emotion to its emotional speech, focusing on a single emotion per text-speech pair. These models only…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Xiaoxue Gao , Chen Zhang , Yiming Chen , Huayun Zhang , Nancy F. Chen

Existing emotional speech synthesis methods often utilize an utterance-level style embedding extracted from reference audio, neglecting the inherent multi-scale property of speech prosody. We introduce ED-TTS, a multi-scale emotional speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Haobin Tang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

We introduce StyleFusion-TTS, a prompt and/or audio referenced, style and speaker-controllable, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system designed to enhance the editability and naturalness of current research literature. We propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Zhiyong Chen , Xinnuo Li , Zhiqi Ai , Shugong Xu

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

While emotional text-to-speech (TTS) has made significant progress, most existing research remains limited to utterance-level emotional expression and fails to support word-level control. Achieving word-level expressive control poses…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Tianrui Wang , Haoyu Wang , Meng Ge , Cheng Gong , Chunyu Qiang , Ziyang Ma , Zikang Huang , Guanrou Yang , Xiaobao Wang , Eng Siong Chng , Xie Chen , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Zero-shot Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis shows great promise for personalized voice customization through voice cloning. However, current methods for achieving zero-shot TTS heavily rely on large model scales and extensive training datasets…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Qianniu Chen , Xiaoyang Hao , Bowen Li , Yue Liu , Li Lu

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and development of audio codecs greatly propel the zero-shot TTS. They can synthesize personalized speech with only a 3-second speech of an unseen speaker as acoustic prompt. However, they…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jinlong Xue , Yayue Deng , Yicheng Han , Yingming Gao , Ya Li

Recently, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems, capable of synthesizing any speaker's voice from a short audio prompt, have made rapid advancements. However, the quality of the generated speech significantly deteriorates when the audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Xiaofei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Manthan Thakker , Hemin Yang , Zirun Zhu , Min Tang , Yufei Xia , Jinzhu Li , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li , Naoyuki Kanda

Text-to-speech (TTS) has shown great progress in recent years. However, most existing TTS systems offer only coarse and rigid emotion control, typically via discrete emotion labels or a carefully crafted and detailed emotional text prompt,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Tianxin Xie , Shan Yang , Chenxing Li , Dong Yu , Li Liu

We propose PromptTTS++, a prompt-based text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system that allows control over speaker identity using natural language descriptions. To control speaker identity within the prompt-based TTS framework, we introduce the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Reo Shimizu , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Masaya Kawamura , Yuma Shirahata , Hironori Doi , Tatsuya Komatsu , Kentaro Tachibana

Cross-speaker emotion transfer in speech synthesis relies on extracting speaker-independent emotion embeddings for accurate emotion modeling without retaining speaker traits. However, existing timbre compression methods fail to fully…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Deok-Hyeon Cho , Hyung-Seok Oh , Seung-Bin Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

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

We introduce SPEAR-TTS, a multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) system that can be trained with minimal supervision. By combining two types of discrete speech representations, we cast TTS as a composition of two sequence-to-sequence tasks:…

Modern neural TTS systems are capable of generating natural and expressive speech when provided with sufficient amounts of training data. Such systems can be equipped with prosody-control functionality, allowing for more direct shaping of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Slava Shechtman , Raul Fernandez

This paper explores multi-modal controllable Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) where the voice can be generated from face image, and the characteristics of output speech (e.g., pace, noise level, distance, tone, place) can be controllable with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Minsu Kim , Pingchuan Ma , Honglie Chen , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis systems achieved immense success in recent times, with improved naturalness and intelligibility. However, the end-to-end models, which primarily depend on the attention-based alignment, do not offer an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Giridhar Pamisetty , K. Sri Rama Murty

It remains a challenge to effectively control the emotion rendering in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. Prior studies have primarily focused on learning a global prosodic representation at the utterance level, which strongly correlates with…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Sho Inoue , Kun Zhou , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

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…