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YourTTS brings the power of a multilingual approach to the task of zero-shot multi-speaker TTS. Our method builds upon the VITS model and adds several novel modifications for zero-shot multi-speaker and multilingual training. We achieved…

This paper proposes a modeling-by-generation (MbG) excitation vocoder for a neural text-to-speech (TTS) system. Recently proposed neural excitation vocoders can realize qualified waveform generation by combining a vocal tract filter with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Eunwoo Song , Min-Jae Hwang , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Jin-Seob Kim , Ohsung Kwon , Jae-Min Kim

Although numerous recent studies have suggested new frameworks for zero-shot TTS using large-scale, real-world data, studies that focus on the intelligibility of zero-shot TTS are relatively scarce. Zero-shot TTS demands additional efforts…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Sunghee Jung , Won Jang , Jaesam Yoon , Bongwan Kim

Accented text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis seeks to generate speech with an accent (L2) as a variant of the standard version (L1). Accented TTS synthesis is challenging as L2 is different from L1 in both in terms of phonetic rendering and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Rui Liu , Berrak Sisman , Guanglai Gao , Haizhou Li

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

Textless speech-to-speech translation systems are rapidly advancing, thanks to the integration of self-supervised learning techniques. However, existing state-of-the-art systems fall short when it comes to capturing and transferring…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Jarod Duret , Benjamin O'Brien , Yannick Estève , Titouan Parcollet

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) generally consists of cascaded architecture with separately optimized acoustic model and vocoder, or end-to-end architecture with continuous mel-spectrograms or self-extracted speech frames as the intermediate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Ruiqing Xue , Yanqing Liu , Lei He , Xu Tan , Linquan Liu , Edward Lin , Sheng Zhao

Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems find broad applications in voice assistants, e-learning, and audiobook creation. The pursuit of modern models, like Diffusion Models (DMs), holds promise for achieving high-fidelity, real-time speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiang Li , Fan Bu , Ambuj Mehrish , Yingting Li , Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

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…

In this paper, we proposed Adapitch, a multi-speaker TTS method that makes adaptation of the supervised module with untranscribed data. We design two self supervised modules to train the text encoder and mel decoder separately with…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) systems realize high naturalness in monolingual environments, synthesizing speech with correct multilingual accents (especially for Indic languages) and context-relevant emotions still poses difficulty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Pranav Pawar , Akshansh Dwivedi , Jenish Boricha , Himanshu Gohil , Aditya Dubey

This paper describes Mixer-TTS, a non-autoregressive model for mel-spectrogram generation. The model is based on the MLP-Mixer architecture adapted for speech synthesis. The basic Mixer-TTS contains pitch and duration predictors, with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Oktai Tatanov , Stanislav Beliaev , Boris Ginsburg

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

Recent neural speech synthesis systems have gradually focused on the control of prosody to improve the quality of synthesized speech, but they rarely consider the variability of prosody and the correlation between prosody and semantics…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Zhen Zeng , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Although text-to-speech (TTS) systems have significantly improved, most TTS systems still have limitations in synthesizing speech with appropriate phrasing. For natural speech synthesis, it is important to synthesize the speech with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Ji-Sang Hwang , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

This paper presents a new challenge that calls for zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems to augment speech data for the downstream task, personalized speech enhancement (PSE), as part of the Generative Data Augmentation workshop at ICASSP…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Jae-Sung Bae , Anastasia Kuznetsova , Dinesh Manocha , John Hershey , Trausti Kristjansson , Minje Kim

Emotional text-to-speech (E-TTS) is central to creating natural and trustworthy human-computer interaction. Existing systems typically rely on sentence-level control through predefined labels, reference audio, or natural language prompts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sirui Wang , Andong Chen , Tiejun Zhao

This paper proposes a hierarchical and multi-scale variational autoencoder-based non-autoregressive text-to-speech model (HiMuV-TTS) to generate natural speech with diverse speaking styles. Recent advances in non-autoregressive TTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Jae-Sung Bae , Jinhyeok Yang , Tae-Jun Bak , Young-Sun Joo

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

Speech emotion conversion is the task of modifying the perceived emotion of a speech utterance while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. In this study, we cast the problem of emotion conversion as a spoken language…