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Several recently proposed text-to-speech (TTS) models achieved to generate the speech samples with the human-level quality in the single-speaker and multi-speaker TTS scenarios with a set of pre-defined speakers. However, synthesizing a new…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Byoung Jin Choi , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Sung Hwan Mun , Nam Soo Kim

This paper presents a novel task, zero-shot voice conversion based on face images (zero-shot FaceVC), which aims at converting the voice characteristics of an utterance from any source speaker to a newly coming target speaker, solely…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zheng-Yan Sheng , Yang Ai , Yan-Nian Chen , Zhen-Hua Ling

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved human-like synthetic speech for single-speaker, single-language synthesis. Multilingual TTS systems are limited to resource-rich languages due to the lack of large paired text and studio-quality…

Vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained on web-scale data exhibit promising zero-shot generalization but often suffer from semantic misalignment due to domain gaps between pre-training and downstream tasks. Existing approaches primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xiaojie Yin , Qilong Wang , Qinghua Hu

Language model based text-to-speech (TTS) models, like VALL-E, have gained attention for their outstanding in-context learning capability in zero-shot scenarios. Neural speech codec is a critical component of these models, which can convert…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yong Ren , Tao Wang , Jiangyan Yi , Le Xu , Jianhua Tao , Chuyuan Zhang , Junzuo Zhou

People change their tones of voice, often accompanied by nonverbal vocalizations (NVs) such as laughter and cries, to convey rich emotions. However, most text-to-speech (TTS) systems lack the capability to generate speech with rich…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Haibin Wu , Xiaofei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Manthan Thakker , Daniel Tompkins , Chung-Hsien Tsai , Canrun Li , Zhen Xiao , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li , Naoyuki Kanda

Most Zero-shot Multi-speaker TTS (ZS-TTS) systems support only a single language. Although models like YourTTS, VALL-E X, Mega-TTS 2, and Voicebox explored Multilingual ZS-TTS they are limited to just a few high/medium resource languages,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Edresson Casanova , Kelly Davis , Eren Gölge , Görkem Göknar , Iulian Gulea , Logan Hart , Aya Aljafari , Joshua Meyer , Reuben Morais , Samuel Olayemi , Julian Weber

This paper introduces StyleSpeech, a novel Text-to-Speech~(TTS) system that enhances the naturalness and accuracy of synthesized speech. Building upon existing TTS technologies, StyleSpeech incorporates a unique Style Decorator structure…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Haowei Lou , Helen Paik , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

The advancements in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) methods, based on large-scale models, have demonstrated high fidelity in reproducing speaker characteristics. However, these models are too large for practical daily use. We propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Kenichi Fujita , Takanori Ashihara , Marc Delcroix , Yusuke Ijima

Continuous autoregressive speech synthesis has recently emerged as a promising direction for zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS). However, existing methods still suffer from a fundamental mismatch between semantic-prosodic modeling and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Huimeng Wang , Hui Lu , Jiajun Deng , Haoning Xu , Youjun Chen , Xueyuan Chen , Zhaoqing Li , Shuhai Peng , Shiyin Kang , Xunying Liu

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is crucial for understanding user needs and executing appropriate system actions in task-oriented dialogues. Majority of existing DST methods are designed to work within predefined ontologies and assume the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Abdulfattah Safa , Gözde Gül Şahin

This paper describes our approach in DSTC 8 Track 4: Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking. The goal of this task is to predict the intents and slots in each user turn to complete the dialogue state tracking (DST) based on the information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Yue Ma , Zengfeng Zeng , Dawei Zhu , Xuan Li , Yiying Yang , Xiaoyuan Yao , Kaijie Zhou , Jianping Shen

Zero-shot speaker cloning aims to synthesize speech for any target speaker unseen during TTS system building, given only a single speech reference of the speaker at hand. Although more practical in real applications, the current zero-shot…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Tao Li , Zhichao Wang , Xinfa Zhu , Jian Cong , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang , Lei Xie

This paper proposes speaker-adaptive neural vocoders for parametric text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Recently proposed WaveNet-based neural vocoding systems successfully generate a time sequence of speech signal with an autoregressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Eunwoo Song , Jin-Seob Kim , Kyungguen Byun , Hong-Goo Kang

Codec-based language models (LMs) have revolutionized text-to-speech (TTS). However, standard codecs entangle timbre and prosody, which hinders independent control in continuation-based LMs. To tackle this challenge, we propose…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Tao Li , Wenshuo Ge , Zhichao Wang , Zihao Cui , Yong Ma , Yingying Gao , Chao Deng , Shilei Zhang , Junlan Feng

We present RALL-E, a robust language modeling method for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. While previous work based on large language models (LLMs) shows impressive performance on zero-shot TTS, such methods often suffer from poor…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Detai Xin , Xu Tan , Kai Shen , Zeqian Ju , Dongchao Yang , Yuancheng Wang , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Sheng Zhao

We introduce a language modeling approach for text to speech synthesis (TTS). Specifically, we train a neural codec language model (called Vall-E) using discrete codes derived from an off-the-shelf neural audio codec model, and regard TTS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Chengyi Wang , Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Ziqiang Zhang , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Zhuo Chen , Yanqing Liu , Huaming Wang , Jinyu Li , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Furu Wei

In this paper, we propose reverse inference optimization (RIO), a simple and effective method designed to enhance the robustness of autoregressive-model-based zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems using reinforcement learning from human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Siyin Wang , Eng Siong Chng , Chao Zhang

Emotional text-to-speech (TTS) technology has achieved significant progress in recent years; however, challenges remain owing to the inherent complexity of emotions and limitations of the available emotional speech datasets and models.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Deok-Hyeon Cho , Hyung-Seok Oh , Seung-Bin Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Visual Autoregressive modeling (VAR) has emerged as a highly efficient alternative to diffusion-based frameworks, achieving comparable synthesis quality. However, as this paradigm extends to Spacetime Autoregressive modeling (STAR) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sungwoong Yune , Suheon Jeong , Joo-Young Kim