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We present a multispeaker, multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis model based on Tacotron that is able to produce high quality speech in multiple languages. Moreover, the model is able to transfer voices across languages, e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Heiga Zen , Yonghui Wu , Zhifeng Chen , RJ Skerry-Ryan , Ye Jia , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Mindfulness-based therapies have been shown to be effective in improving mental health, and technology-based methods have the potential to expand the accessibility of these therapies. To enable real-time personalized content generation for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zhonghao Shi , Han Chen , Anna-Maria Velentza , Siqi Liu , Nathaniel Dennler , Allison O'Connell , Maja Matarić

Recent advances in Text-to-Speech (TTS) have improved quality and naturalness to near-human capabilities when considering isolated sentences. But something which is still lacking in order to achieve human-like communication is the dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Shubhi Tyagi , Marco Nicolis , Jonas Rohnke , Thomas Drugman , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

Speech synthesis has come a long way as current text-to-speech (TTS) models can now generate natural human-sounding speech. However, most of the TTS research focuses on using adult speech data and there has been very limited work done on…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Rishabh Jain , Mariam Yiwere , Dan Bigioi , Peter Corcoran , Horia Cucu

We present ParrotTTS, a modularized text-to-speech synthesis model leveraging disentangled self-supervised speech representations. It can train a multi-speaker variant effectively using transcripts from a single speaker. ParrotTTS adapts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Neil Shah , Saiteja Kosgi , Vishal Tambrahalli , Neha Sahipjohn , Niranjan Pedanekar , Vineet Gandhi

With the rapid advancement in deep generative models, recent neural Text-To-Speech(TTS) models have succeeded in synthesizing human-like speech. There have been some efforts to generate speech with various prosody beyond monotonous prosody…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Seongho Joo , Hyukhun Koh , Kyomin Jung

In this paper we propose a new cross-lingual Voice Conversion (VC) approach which can generate all speech parameters (MCEP, LF0, BAP) from one DNN model using PPGs (Phonetic PosteriorGrams) extracted from inputted speech using several ASR…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Qinghua Sun , Kenji Nagamatsu

Although word-level prosody modeling in neural text-to-speech (TTS) has been investigated in recent research for diverse speech synthesis, it is still challenging to control speech synthesis manually without a specific reference. This is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Yiwei Guo , Chenpeng Du , Kai Yu

This work focuses on the analysis that whether 3D face models can be learned from only the speech inputs of speakers. Previous works for cross-modal face synthesis study image generation from voices. However, image synthesis includes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Cho-Ying Wu , Ke Xu , Chin-Cheng Hsu , Ulrich Neumann

While neural-based text to speech (TTS) models can synthesize natural and intelligible voice, they usually require high-quality speech data, which is costly to collect. In many scenarios, only noisy speech of a target speaker is available,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Chen Zhang , Yi Ren , Xu Tan , Jinglin Liu , Kejun Zhang , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) approaches generally require a huge number of high quality speech data, which makes it difficult to obtain such a dataset with extra emotion labels. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for emotional TTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Xiong Cai , Dongyang Dai , Zhiyong Wu , Xiang Li , Jingbei Li , Helen Meng

Recently, end-to-end multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) systems gain success in the situation where a lot of high-quality speech plus their corresponding transcriptions are available. However, laborious paired data collection processes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Tao Tu , Yuan-Jui Chen , Alexander H. Liu , Hung-yi Lee

Traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems rely on studio-quality speech recorded in controlled settings.a Recently, an effort known as noisy-TTS training has emerged, aiming to utilize in-the-wild data. However, the lack of dedicated…

This paper proposes an effective emotion control method for an end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) system. To flexibly control the distinct characteristic of a target emotion category, it is essential to determine embedding vectors representing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Se-Yun Um , Sangshin Oh , Kyungguen Byun , Inseon Jang , Chunghyun Ahn , Hong-Goo Kang

Sarcastic speech synthesis, which involves generating speech that effectively conveys sarcasm, is essential for enhancing natural interactions in applications such as entertainment and human-computer interaction. However, synthesizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhu Li , Yuqing Zhang , Xiyuan Gao , Devraj Raghuvanshi , Nagendra Kumar , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

While current emotional Text-to-Speech (TTS) models have successfully controlled verbal prosody, they often ignore non-verbal vocalizations (NVs), which are essential for authentic human emotion. Although some non-verbal datasets have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Wangzixi Zhou , Bagus Tris Atmaja , Sakriani Sakti

In this paper, we present a novel architecture to realize fine-grained style control on the transformer-based text-to-speech synthesis (TransformerTTS). Specifically, we model the speaking style by extracting a time sequence of local style…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Li-Wei Chen , Alexander Rudnicky

Recent state-of-the-art neural text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis models have dramatically improved intelligibility and naturalness of generated speech from text. However, building a good bilingual or code-switched TTS for a particular voice is…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Shengkui Zhao , Trung Hieu Nguyen , Hao Wang , Bin Ma

A Prompt-based Text-To-Speech model allows a user to control different aspects of speech, such as speaking rate and perceived gender, through natural language instruction. Although user-friendly, such approaches are on one hand constrained:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Atli Sigurgeirsson , Simon King

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