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We address the problem of cross-speaker style transfer for text-to-speech (TTS) using data augmentation via voice conversion. We assume to have a corpus of neutral non-expressive data from a target speaker and supporting conversational…

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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

The trend of scaling up speech generation models poses a threat of biometric information leakage of the identities of the voices in the training data, raising privacy and security concerns. In this paper, we investigate training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Wen-Chin Huang , Yi-Chiao Wu , Tomoki Toda

We present a neural text-to-speech (TTS) method that models natural vocal effort variation to improve the intelligibility of synthetic speech in the presence of noise. The method consists of first measuring the spectral tilt of unlabeled…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Tuomo Raitio , Petko Petkov , Jiangchuan Li , Muhammed Shifas , Andrea Davis , Yannis Stylianou

It has been known that direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) models usually suffer from the data scarcity issue because of the limited existing parallel materials for both source and target speech. Therefore to train a direct S2ST…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiatong Shi , Yun Tang , Ann Lee , Hirofumi Inaguma , Changhan Wang , Juan Pino , Shinji Watanabe

This paper presents a novel data augmentation technique for text-to-speech (TTS), that allows to generate new (text, audio) training examples without requiring any additional data. Our goal is to increase diversity of text conditionings…

While neural-based text to speech (TTS) models can synthesize natural and intelligible voice, they usually require high-quality speech data, which is costly to collect. In many scenarios, only noisy speech of a target speaker is available,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Chen Zhang , Yi Ren , Xu Tan , Jinglin Liu , Kejun Zhang , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

In this work, we explore multiple architectures and training procedures for developing a multi-speaker and multi-lingual neural TTS system with the goals of a) improving the quality when the available data in the target language is limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Javier Latorre , Charlotte Bailleul , Tuuli Morrill , Alistair Conkie , Yannis Stylianou

Recent advances in neural TTS have led to models that can produce high-quality synthetic speech. However, these models typically require large amounts of training data, which can make it costly to produce a new voice with the desired…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Marcel de Korte , Jaebok Kim , Esther Klabbers

Building multispeaker neural network-based text-to-speech synthesis systems commonly relies on the availability of large amounts of high quality recordings from each speaker and conditioning the training process on the speaker's identity or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Beata Lorincz , Adriana Stan , Mircea Giurgiu

Neural text-to-speech synthesis (NTTS) models have shown significant progress in generating high-quality speech, however they require a large quantity of training data. This makes creating models for multiple styles expensive and…

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

Recent advances in generative language modeling applied to discrete speech tokens presented a new avenue for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. These speech language models (SLMs), similarly to their textual counterparts, are scalable,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Siyang Wang , Éva Székely

Training a multi-speaker Text-to-Speech (TTS) model from scratch is computationally expensive and adding new speakers to the dataset requires the model to be re-trained. The naive solution of sequential fine-tuning of a model for new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Hamed Hemati , Damian Borth

Spontaneous style speech synthesis, which aims to generate human-like speech, often encounters challenges due to the scarcity of high-quality data and limitations in model capabilities. Recent language model-based TTS systems can be trained…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Weiqin Li , Peiji Yang , Yicheng Zhong , Yixuan Zhou , Zhisheng Wang , Zhiyong Wu , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

Deep learning models are becoming predominant in many fields of machine learning. Text-to-Speech (TTS), the process of synthesizing artificial speech from text, is no exception. To this end, a deep neural network is usually trained using a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Giuseppe Ruggiero , Enrico Zovato , Luigi Di Caro , Vincent Pollet

The rapid growth of voice assistants powered by large language models (LLM) has highlighted a need for speech instruction data to train these systems. Despite the abundance of speech recognition data, there is a notable scarcity of speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Alan Dao , Dinh Bach Vu , Huy Hoang Ha , Tuan Le Duc Anh , Shreyas Gopal , Yue Heng Yeo , Warren Keng Hoong Low , Eng Siong Chng , Jia Qi Yip

We present a methodology to train our multi-speaker emotional text-to-speech synthesizer that can express speech for 10 speakers' 7 different emotions. All silences from audio samples are removed prior to learning. This results in fast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Sungjae Cho , Soo-Young Lee

Text-to-speech models trained on large-scale datasets have demonstrated impressive in-context learning capabilities and naturalness. However, control of speaker identity and style in these models typically requires conditioning on reference…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Dan Lyth , Simon King

Speech synthesis technology has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, enabling the creation of natural and expressive synthetic speech. One area of particular interest is the generation of synthetic child speech, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Rishabh Jain , Peter Corcoran