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In recent years, there has been significant progress in Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis technology, enabling the high-quality synthesis of voices in common scenarios. In unseen situations, adaptive TTS requires a strong generalization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Zhipeng Li , Xiaofen Xing , Jun Wang , Shuaiqi Chen , Guoqiao Yu , Guanglu Wan , Xiangmin Xu

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

This paper proposes a controllable end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) system to control the speaking speed (speed-controllable TTS; SCTTS) of synthesized speech with sentence-level speaking-rate value as an additional input. The speaking-rate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Jae-Sung Bae , Hanbin Bae , Young-Sun Joo , Junmo Lee , Gyeong-Hoon Lee , Hoon-Young Cho

Spontaneous speech has many affective and pragmatic functions that are interesting and challenging to model in TTS. However, the presence of reduced articulation, fillers, repetitions, and other disfluencies in spontaneous speech make the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Harm Lameris , Shivam Mehta , Gustav Eje Henter , Joakim Gustafson , Éva Székely

Conversational text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize speech with proper prosody of reply based on the historical conversation. However, it is still a challenge to comprehensively model the conversation, and a majority of conversational…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Jinlong Xue , Yayue Deng , Fengping Wang , Ya Li , Yingming Gao , Jianhua Tao , Jianqing Sun , Jiaen Liang

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the field of controllable Text-to-Speech (TTS). While previous studies have relied on users providing specific style factor values based on acoustic knowledge or selecting reference speeches…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Shengpeng Ji , Jialong Zuo , Minghui Fang , Ziyue Jiang , Feiyang Chen , Xinyu Duan , Baoxing Huai , Zhou Zhao

This study aims at designing an environment-aware text-to-speech (TTS) system that can generate speech to suit specific acoustic environments. It is also motivated by the desire to leverage massive data of speech audio from heterogeneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Daxin Tan , Guangyan Zhang , Tan Lee

Generating speech across different accents while preserving speaker identity is crucial for various real-world applications. However, accurately and independently modeling both speaker and accent characteristics in text-to-speech (TTS)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Xuehao Zhou , Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Zhizheng Wu , Haizhou Li

This paper presents an expressive speech synthesis architecture for modeling and controlling the speaking style at a word level. It attempts to learn word-level stylistic and prosodic representations of the speech data, with the aid of two…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Konstantinos Klapsas , Nikolaos Ellinas , June Sig Sung , Hyoungmin Park , Spyros Raptis

Recent language model-based text-to-speech (TTS) frameworks demonstrate scalability and in-context learning capabilities. However, they suffer from robustness issues due to the accumulation of errors in speech unit predictions during…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Kun Zhou , Shengkui Zhao , Yukun Ma , Chong Zhang , Hao Wang , Dianwen Ng , Chongjia Ni , Nguyen Trung Hieu , Jia Qi Yip , Bin Ma

Controllable text-to-speech (TTS) systems face significant challenges in achieving independent manipulation of speaker timbre and speaking style, often suffering from entanglement between these attributes. We present DMP-TTS, a latent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Kang Yin , Chunyu Qiang , Sirui Zhao , Xiaopeng Wang , Yuzhe Liang , Pengfei Cai , Tong Xu , Chen Zhang , Enhong Chen

We describe a neural network-based system for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis that is able to generate speech audio in the voice of many different speakers, including those unseen during training. Our system consists of three independently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Ye Jia , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Quan Wang , Jonathan Shen , Fei Ren , Zhifeng Chen , Patrick Nguyen , Ruoming Pang , Ignacio Lopez Moreno , Yonghui Wu

Speaker-adaptive Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis has attracted considerable attention due to its broad range of applications, such as personalized voice assistant services. While several approaches have been proposed, they often exhibit high…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wooseok Han , Minki Kang , Changhun Kim , Eunho Yang

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis can generate speech that is indistinguishable from natural speech. However, the synthetic speech often represents the average prosodic style of the database instead of having more versatile prosodic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Tuomo Raitio , Jiangchuan Li , Shreyas Seshadri

With the similarity between music and speech synthesis from symbolic input and the rapid development of text-to-speech (TTS) techniques, it is worthwhile to explore ways to improve the MIDI-to-audio performance by borrowing from TTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xuan Shi , Erica Cooper , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Shrikanth Narayanan

Despite the significant advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, their full utilization in automatic dubbing remains limited. This task necessitates the extraction of voice identity and emotional style from a reference speech in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Ashishkumar Gudmalwar , Nirmesh Shah , Sai Akarsh , Pankaj Wasnik , Rajiv Ratn Shah

We present a novel generative model that combines state-of-the-art neural text-to-speech (TTS) with semi-supervised probabilistic latent variable models. By providing partial supervision to some of the latent variables, we are able to force…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Raza Habib , Soroosh Mariooryad , Matt Shannon , Eric Battenberg , RJ Skerry-Ryan , Daisy Stanton , David Kao , Tom Bagby

Current text to speech (TTS) systems usually leverage a cascaded acoustic model and vocoder pipeline with mel-spectrograms as the intermediate representations, which suffer from two limitations: 1) the acoustic model and vocoder are…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yanqing Liu , Ruiqing Xue , Lei He , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao

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

In this paper, we present ControlSpeech, a text-to-speech (TTS) system capable of fully cloning the speaker's voice and enabling arbitrary control and adjustment of speaking style. Prior zero-shot TTS models only mimic the speaker's voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Shengpeng Ji , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Jialong Zuo , Minghui Fang , Ziyue Jiang , Hai Huang , Zehan Wang , Xize Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Zhou Zhao