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Recently, large language model (LLM) based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have gradually become the mainstream in the industry due to their high naturalness and powerful zero-shot voice cloning capabilities.Here, we introduce the IndexTTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Wei Deng , Siyi Zhou , Jingchen Shu , Jinchao Wang , Lu Wang

We present MParrotTTS, a unified multilingual, multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis model that can produce high-quality speech. Benefiting from a modularized training paradigm exploiting self-supervised speech representations,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Neil Shah , Vishal Tambrahalli , Saiteja Kosgi , Niranjan Pedanekar , Vineet Gandhi

This paper proposes a zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) conditioned by a self-supervised speech-representation model acquired through self-supervised learning (SSL). Conventional methods with embedding vectors from x-vector or global style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kenichi Fujita , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroki Kanagawa , Takafumi Moriya , Yusuke Ijima

The idea of using phonological features instead of phonemes as input to sequence-to-sequence TTS has been recently proposed for zero-shot multilingual speech synthesis. This approach is useful for code-switching, as it facilitates the…

This paper presents an accented text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis framework with limited training data. We study two aspects concerning accent rendering: phonetic (phoneme difference) and prosodic (pitch pattern and phoneme duration)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Xuehao Zhou , Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Zhizheng Wu , Haizhou Li

We present a new neural text to speech (TTS) method that is able to transform text to speech in voices that are sampled in the wild. Unlike other systems, our solution is able to deal with unconstrained voice samples and without requiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Yaniv Taigman , Lior Wolf , Adam Polyak , Eliya Nachmani

Different languages have distinct phonetic systems and vary in their prosodic features making it challenging to develop a Text-to-Speech (TTS) model that can effectively synthesise speech in multilingual settings. Furthermore, TTS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yingting Li , Ambuj Mehrish , Bryan Chew , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

Zero-shot Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis shows great promise for personalized voice customization through voice cloning. However, current methods for achieving zero-shot TTS heavily rely on large model scales and extensive training datasets…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Qianniu Chen , Xiaoyang Hao , Bowen Li , Yue Liu , Li Lu

We present a speaker conditioned text-to-speech (TTS) system aimed at addressing challenges in generating speech for unseen speakers and supporting diverse Indian languages. Our method leverages a diffusion-based TTS architecture, where a…

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) generally consists of cascaded architecture with separately optimized acoustic model and vocoder, or end-to-end architecture with continuous mel-spectrograms or self-extracted speech frames as the intermediate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Ruiqing Xue , Yanqing Liu , Lei He , Xu Tan , Linquan Liu , Edward Lin , Sheng Zhao

In recent years, speech diffusion models have advanced rapidly. Alongside the widely used U-Net architecture, transformer-based models such as the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) have also gained attention. However, current DiT speech models…

Emotional Text-To-Speech (TTS) is an important task in the development of systems (e.g., human-like dialogue agents) that require natural and emotional speech. Existing approaches, however, only aim to produce emotional TTS for seen…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Minki Kang , Wooseok Han , Sung Ju Hwang , Eunho Yang

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

Polyphone disambiguation aims to capture accurate pronunciation knowledge from natural text sequences for reliable Text-to-speech (TTS) systems. However, previous approaches require substantial annotated training data and additional efforts…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-20 Ziyue Jiang , Zhe Su , Zhou Zhao , Qian Yang , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Zhenhui Ye

We propose FEIM-TTS, an innovative zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) model that synthesizes emotionally expressive speech, aligned with facial images and modulated by emotion intensity. Leveraging deep learning, FEIM-TTS transcends traditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yunji Chu , Yunseob Shim , Unsang Park

With the help of discrete neural audio codecs, large language models (LLM) have increasingly been recognized as a promising methodology for zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis. However, sampling based decoding strategies bring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Bing Han , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Sanyuan Chen , Lingwei Meng , Yanming Qian , Yanqing Liu , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li , Furu Wei

In this technical report, we describe our submission for the WildSpoof Challenge TTS Track: Text-to-Speech with In-the-Wild Data. We introduce F5-TTS-DPS, a model built upon the F5-TTS architecture. Our approach integrates Exponential…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Renhe Sun , Jiayi Zhou , Haolin He , Yueying Feng , Jian Liu

We introduce Matcha-TTS, a new encoder-decoder architecture for speedy TTS acoustic modelling, trained using optimal-transport conditional flow matching (OT-CFM). This yields an ODE-based decoder capable of high output quality in fewer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Shivam Mehta , Ruibo Tu , Jonas Beskow , Éva Székely , Gustav Eje Henter

With the demand for autonomous control and personalized speech generation, the style control and transfer in Text-to-Speech (TTS) is becoming more and more important. In this paper, we propose a new TTS system that can perform style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Wenhao Guan , Tao Li , Yishuang Li , Hukai Huang , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

This paper proposes an approach to build a high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) system for technical domains using data augmentation. An end-to-end (E2E) system is trained on hidden Markov model (HMM) based synthesized speech and further…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Ishika Gupta , Anusha Prakash , Jom Kuriakose , Hema A. Murthy