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In recent years, several text-to-speech systems have been proposed to synthesize natural speech in zero-shot, few-shot, and low-resource scenarios. However, these methods typically require training with data from many different speakers.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana , Frank Zalkow , Christian Dittmar , Nicola Pia , Emanuel A. P. Habets

Toxic speech on online platforms is a growing concern, impacting user experience and online safety. While text-based toxicity detection is well-studied, audio-based approaches remain underexplored, especially for low-resource languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Huy Ba Do , Vy Le-Phuong Huynh , Luan Thanh Nguyen

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…

Existing large-scale zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) models deliver high speech quality but suffer from slow inference speeds due to massive parameters. To address this issue, this paper introduces ZipVoice, a high-quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Han Zhu , Wei Kang , Zengwei Yao , Liyong Guo , Fangjun Kuang , Zhaoqing Li , Weiji Zhuang , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

Adaptive text to speech (TTS) can synthesize new voices in zero-shot scenarios efficiently, by using a well-trained source TTS model without adapting it on the speech data of new speakers. Considering seen and unseen speakers have diverse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Yihan Wu , Xu Tan , Bohan Li , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Ruihua Song , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

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

Most of the current task-oriented dialogue systems (ToD), despite having interesting results, are designed for a handful of languages like Chinese and English. Therefore, their performance in low-resource languages is still a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Phi Nguyen Van , Tung Cao Hoang , Dung Nguyen Manh , Quan Nguyen Minh , Long Tran Quoc

In this work, we address the Text-to-Speech (TTS) task by proposing a non-autoregressive architecture called EfficientTTS. Unlike the dominant non-autoregressive TTS models, which are trained with the need of external aligners, EfficientTTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Chenfeng Miao , Shuang Liang , Zhencheng Liu , Minchuan Chen , Jun Ma , Shaojun Wang , Jing Xiao

Zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (ZS-TTS) systems have advanced for English, however, it still lags behind due to insufficient resources. We address this gap for Arabic, a language of more than 450 million native speakers, by first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Khai Duy Doan , Abdul Waheed , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Unsupervised Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (VC) aims to modify the speaker characteristic of an utterance to match an unseen target speaker without relying on parallel training data. Recently, self-supervised learning of speech representation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Trung Dang , Dung Tran , Peter Chin , Kazuhito Koishida

While recent advances in Text-To-Speech synthesis have yielded remarkable improvements in generating high-quality speech, research on lightweight and fast models is limited. This paper introduces FLY-TTS, a new fast, lightweight and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yinlin Guo , Yening Lv , Jinqiao Dou , Yan Zhang , Yuehai Wang

We introduce VietSuperSpeech, a large-scale Vietnamese automatic speech recognition (ASR) dataset of 52,023 audio-text pairs totaling 267.39 hours, with a distinctive focus on casual conversational speech. Unlike existing Vietnamese ASR…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Loan Do , Thanh Ngoc Nguyen , Thanh Pham , Vinh Do , Hien Nguyen , Charlotte Nguyen

We present LongCat-AudioDiT, a novel, non-autoregressive diffusion-based text-to-speech (TTS) model that achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. Unlike previous methods that rely on intermediate acoustic representations such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Detai Xin , Shujie Hu , Chengzuo Yang , Chen Huang , Guoqiao Yu , Guanglu Wan , Xunliang Cai

Scaling text-to-speech to a large and wild dataset has been proven to be highly effective in achieving timbre and speech style generalization, particularly in zero-shot TTS. However, previous works usually encode speech into latent using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Ziyue Jiang , Yi Ren , Zhenhui Ye , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Qian Yang , Shengpeng Ji , Rongjie Huang , Chunfeng Wang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

This paper introduces VALL-E 2, the latest advancement in neural codec language models that marks a milestone in zero-shot text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), achieving human parity for the first time. Based on its predecessor, VALL-E, the new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Sanyuan Chen , Shujie Liu , Long Zhou , Yanqing Liu , Xu Tan , Jinyu Li , Sheng Zhao , Yao Qian , Furu Wei

Recently, Text-to-speech (TTS) models based on large language models (LLMs) that translate natural language text into sequences of discrete audio tokens have gained great research attention, with advances in neural audio codec (NAC) models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Yuto Nishimura , Takumi Hirose , Masanari Ohi , Hideki Nakayama , Nakamasa Inoue

With the advent of the big data and large language model era, zero-shot personalized rapid customization has emerged as a significant trend. In this report, we introduce Takin AudioLLM, a series of techniques and models, mainly including…

Traditional studies on voice conversion (VC) have made progress with parallel training data and known speakers. Good voice conversion quality is obtained by exploring better alignment modules or expressive mapping functions. In this study,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Jiachen Lian , Chunlei Zhang , Dong Yu

Speech editing and zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) share a similar generative foundation conditioned on speech prompts, yet speech editing demands far stricter local acoustic consistency with surrounding unedited content. While prior work…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Junyang Chen , Yuhang Jia , Hui Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Yongchang Gan , Yong Qin

A Spoken dialogue system for an unseen language is referred to as Zero resource speech. It is especially beneficial for developing applications for languages that have low digital resources. Zero resource speech synthesis is the task of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Karthik Pandia D S , Anusha Prakash , Mano Ranjith Kumar , Hema A Murthy