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The imitation of voice, targeted on specific speech attributes such as timbre and speaking style, is crucial in speech generation. However, existing methods rely heavily on annotated data, and struggle with effectively disentangling timbre…

We present SoundStorm, a model for efficient, non-autoregressive audio generation. SoundStorm receives as input the semantic tokens of AudioLM, and relies on bidirectional attention and confidence-based parallel decoding to generate the…

Generating spoken dialogue is inherently more complex than monologue text-to-speech (TTS), as it demands both realistic turn-taking and the maintenance of distinct speaker timbres. While existing autoregressive (AR) models have made…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Han Zhu , Wei Kang , Liyong Guo , Zengwei Yao , Fangjun Kuang , Weiji Zhuang , Zhaoqing Li , Zhifeng Han , Dong Zhang , Xin Zhang , Xingchen Song , Lingxuan Ye , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

Voice Conversion research in recent times has increasingly focused on improving the zero-shot capabilities of existing methods. Despite remarkable advancements, current architectures still tend to struggle in zero-shot cross-lingual…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Advait Joglekar , Divyanshu Singh , Rooshil Rohit Bhatia , S. Umesh

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…

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

Although neural end-to-end text-to-speech models can synthesize highly natural speech, there is still room for improvements to its efficiency and naturalness. This paper proposes a non-autoregressive neural text-to-speech model augmented…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Isaac Elias , Heiga Zen , Jonathan Shen , Yu Zhang , Ye Jia , Ron Weiss , Yonghui Wu

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has achieved impressive translation quality, but it often faces the challenge of slow decoding due to the considerable length of speech sequences. Recently, some research has turned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Qingkai Fang , Zhengrui Ma , Yan Zhou , Min Zhang , Yang Feng

Zero-shot multi-speaker Text-to-Speech (TTS) generates target speaker voices given an input text and the corresponding speaker embedding. In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of the TTS reconstruction objective to improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Jaejin Cho , Piotr Zelasko , Jesus Villalba , Shinji Watanabe , Najim Dehak

Vocoders received renewed attention as main components in statistical parametric text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis and speech transformation systems. Even though there are vocoding techniques give almost accepted synthesized speech, their high…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi , Tamás Gábor Csapó , Géza Németh

Zero-shot singing voice synthesis (SVS) with style transfer and style control aims to generate high-quality singing voices with unseen timbres and styles (including singing method, emotion, rhythm, technique, and pronunciation) from audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Yu Zhang , Ziyue Jiang , Ruiqi Li , Changhao Pan , Jinzheng He , Rongjie Huang , Chuxin Wang , Zhou Zhao

The zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) method, based on speaker embeddings extracted from reference speech using self-supervised learning (SSL) speech representations, can reproduce speaker characteristics very accurately. However, this…

Voice style transfer, also called voice conversion, seeks to modify one speaker's voice to generate speech as if it came from another (target) speaker. Previous works have made progress on voice conversion with parallel training data and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Siyang Yuan , Pengyu Cheng , Ruiyi Zhang , Weituo Hao , Zhe Gan , Lawrence Carin

Autoregressive diffusion models (ARDMs) have recently been applied to speech generation, achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in zero-shot text-to-speech. By autoregressively generating continuous speech tokens with next-token…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Zhijun Liu , Dongya Jia , Xiaoqiang Wang , Chenpeng Du , Shuai Wang , Zhuo Chen , Haizhou Li

We evaluate two non-autoregressive architectures, StyleTTS2 and F5-TTS, to address the spontaneous nature of in-the-wild speech. Our models utilize flexible duration modeling to improve prosodic naturalness. To handle acoustic noise, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Jose Giraldo , Alex Peiró-Lilja , Rodolfo Zevallos , Cristina España-Bonet

This paper introduces Parallel Tacotron 2, a non-autoregressive neural text-to-speech model with a fully differentiable duration model which does not require supervised duration signals. The duration model is based on a novel attention…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Isaac Elias , Heiga Zen , Jonathan Shen , Yu Zhang , Ye Jia , RJ Skerry-Ryan , Yonghui Wu

In this paper, we introduce a zero-shot Voice Transfer (VT) module that can be seamlessly integrated into a multi-lingual Text-to-speech (TTS) system to transfer an individual's voice across languages. Our proposed VT module comprises a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Fadi Biadsy , Youzheng Chen , Isaac Elias , Kyle Kastner , Gary Wang , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran

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

Zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) models can generate speech that captures both the voice timbre and accent of a reference speaker. However, disentangling these attributes remains challenging, as the output often inherits both the accent and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Mu Yang , John H. L. Hansen

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) converts source speech into the voice of any desired speaker using only one utterance of the speaker without requiring additional model updates. Typical methods use a speaker representation from a pre-trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Zhichao Wang , Liumeng Xue , Qiuqiang Kong , Lei Xie , Yuanzhe Chen , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang