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Streaming speech-to-text translation (StreamST) is the task of automatically translating speech while incrementally receiving an audio stream. Unlike simultaneous ST (SimulST), which deals with pre-segmented speech, StreamST faces the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sara Papi , Marco Gaido , Matteo Negri , Luisa Bentivogli

Data availability is crucial for advancing artificial intelligence applications, including voice-based technologies. As content creation, particularly in social media, experiences increasing demand, translation and text-to-speech (TTS)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Ahmet Gunduz , Kamer Ali Yuksel , Kareem Darwish , Golara Javadi , Fabio Minazzi , Nicola Sobieski , Sebastien Bratieres

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, particularly those leveraging large language models (LLMs), have significantly improved expressiveness and naturalness. However, generating human-like, interactive dialogue speech remains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Hanke Xie , Dake Guo , Chengyou Wang , Yue Li , Wenjie Tian , Xinfa Zhu , Xinsheng Wang , Xiulin Li , Guanqiong Miao , Bo Liu , Lei Xie

Typical high quality text-to-speech (TTS) systems today use a two-stage architecture, with a spectrum model stage that generates spectral frames and a vocoder stage that generates the actual audio. High-quality spectrum models usually…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Qing He , Zhiping Xiu , Thilo Koehler , Jilong Wu

Recent advancements in speech-to-speech dialogue systems leverage LLMs for multimodal interactions, yet they remain hindered by fine-tuning requirements, high computational overhead, and text-speech misalignment. Existing speech-enabled…

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has transformed spoken dialog systems, yet the optimal architecture for real-time on-device voice agents remains an open question. While end-to-end approaches promise theoretical advantages,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tatiana Likhomanenko , Luke Carlson , Richard He Bai , Zijin Gu , Han Tran , Zakaria Aldeneh , Yizhe Zhang , Ruixiang Zhang , Huangjie Zheng , Navdeep Jaitly

Text-to-audio (TTA) system has recently gained attention for its ability to synthesize general audio based on text descriptions. However, previous studies in TTA have limited generation quality with high computational costs. In this study,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Haohe Liu , Zehua Chen , Yi Yuan , Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Danilo Mandic , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Recent advances in AudioLLMs have enabled spoken dialogue systems to move beyond turn-based interaction toward real-time full-duplex communication, where the agent must decide when to speak, yield, or interrupt while the user is still…

Despite the close relationship between speech perception and production, research in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) has progressed more or less independently without exerting much mutual influence on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

Neural network based end-to-end Text-to-Speech (TTS) has greatly improved the quality of synthesized speech. While how to use massive spontaneous speech without transcription efficiently still remains an open problem. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Dabiao Ma , Yitong Zhang , Meng Li , Feng Ye

Modern Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems increasingly leverage Large Language Model (LLM) architectures to achieve scalable, high-fidelity, zero-shot generation. However, these systems typically rely on fixed-frame-rate acoustic tokenization,…

Simultaneous speech translation (SST) takes streaming speech input and generates text translation on the fly. Existing methods either have high latency due to recomputation of input representations, or fall behind of offline ST in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Siqi Ouyang , Xi Xu , Chinmay Dandekar , Lei Li

Streaming models are an essential component of real-time speech enhancement tools. The streaming regime constrains speech enhancement models to use only a tiny context of future information. As a result, the low-latency streaming setup is…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Pavel Andreev , Nicholas Babaev , Azat Saginbaev , Ivan Shchekotov , Aibek Alanov

While generative Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems leverage vast ``in-the-wild" data to achieve remarkable success, speech-to-speech processing tasks like enhancement face data limitations, which lead data-hungry generative approaches to distort…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Justin Lovelace , Rithesh Kumar , Jiaqi Su , Ke Chen , Kilian Q Weinberger , Zeyu Jin

Neural network based end-to-end text to speech (TTS) has significantly improved the quality of synthesized speech. Prominent methods (e.g., Tacotron 2) usually first generate mel-spectrogram from text, and then synthesize speech from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Yi Ren , Yangjun Ruan , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Zhou Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Unified architectures in multimodal large language models (MLLM) have shown promise in handling diverse tasks within a single framework. In the text-to-speech (TTS) task, current MLLM-based approaches rely on discrete token representations,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Xinlu He , Swayambhu Nath Ray , Harish Mallidi , Jia-Hong Huang , Ashwin Bellur , Chander Chandak , M. Maruf , Venkatesh Ravichandran

Simultaneous machine translation has recently gained traction thanks to significant quality improvements and the advent of streaming applications. Simultaneous translation systems need to find a trade-off between translation quality and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Javier Iranzo-Sánchez , Jorge Civera , Alfons Juan

We consider the generative modeling of speech over multiple minutes, a requirement for long-form multimedia generation and audio-native voice assistants. However, textless spoken language models struggle to generate plausible speech past…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Se Jin Park , Julian Salazar , Aren Jansen , Keisuke Kinoshita , Yong Man Ro , RJ Skerry-Ryan

Current speech language models generate responses directly without explicit reasoning, leading to errors that cannot be corrected once audio is produced. We introduce \textbf{``Silent Thought, Spoken Answer''} -- a paradigm where speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yuxuan Lou , Ziming Wu , Yaochen Wang , Yong Liu , Yingxuan Ren , Fuming Lai , Shaobing Lian , Jie Tang , Yang You

Recent advances in generative language modeling applied to discrete speech tokens presented a new avenue for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. These speech language models (SLMs), similarly to their textual counterparts, are scalable,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Siyang Wang , Éva Székely