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While neural methods for text-to-speech (TTS) have shown great advances in modeling multiple speakers, even in zero-shot settings, the amount of data needed for those approaches is generally not feasible for the vast majority of the world's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Florian Lux , Julia Koch , Ngoc Thang Vu

Given a pair of source and reference speech recordings, speech-to-speech (S2S) emotion style transfer involves the generation of an output speech that mimics the emotion characteristics of the reference while preserving the content and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Soumya Dutta , Avni Jain , Sriram Ganapathy

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) converts source speech into the voice of any desired speaker using only one utterance of the speaker without requiring additional model updates. Typical methods use a speaker representation from a pre-trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Zhichao Wang , Liumeng Xue , Qiuqiang Kong , Lei Xie , Yuanzhe Chen , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang

Intonations play an important role in delivering the intention of a speaker. However, current end-to-end TTS systems often fail to model proper intonations. To alleviate this problem, we propose a novel, intuitive method to synthesize…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Jihwan Lee , Joun Yeop Lee , Heejin Choi , Seongkyu Mun , Sangjun Park , Jae-Sung Bae , Chanwoo Kim

Although diffusion-based, non-autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems have demonstrated impressive zero-shot synthesis capabilities, their efficacy is still hindered by two key challenges: the difficulty of text-speech alignment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Chunyat Wu , Jiajun Deng , Zhengxi Liu , Zheqi Dai , Haolin He , Qiuqiang Kong

Modern sequence to sequence neural TTS systems provide close to natural speech quality. Such systems usually comprise a network converting linguistic/phonetic features sequence to an acoustic features sequence, cascaded with a neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Slava Shechtman , Alex Sorin

The task of few-shot style transfer for voice cloning in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims at transferring speaking styles of an arbitrary source speaker to a target speaker's voice using very limited amount of neutral data. This is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Songxiang Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu

This paper introduces Easy One-Step Text-to-Speech (E1 TTS), an efficient non-autoregressive zero-shot text-to-speech system based on denoising diffusion pretraining and distribution matching distillation. The training of E1 TTS is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Zhijun Liu , Shuai Wang , Pengcheng Zhu , Mengxiao Bi , Haizhou Li

We present VoiceStar, the first zero-shot TTS model that achieves both output duration control and extrapolation. VoiceStar is an autoregressive encoder-decoder neural codec language model, that leverages a novel Progress-Monitoring Rotary…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Puyuan Peng , Shang-Wen Li , Abdelrahman Mohamed , David Harwath

Spontaneous speaking style exhibits notable differences from other speaking styles due to various spontaneous phenomena (e.g., filled pauses, prolongation) and substantial prosody variation (e.g., diverse pitch and duration variation,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Hanzhao Li , Xinfa Zhu , Liumeng Xue , Yang Song , Yunlin Chen , Lei Xie

There has been a significant progress in Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis technology in recent years, thanks to the advancement in neural generative modeling. However, existing methods on any-speaker adaptive TTS have achieved unsatisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Minki Kang , Dongchan Min , Sung Ju Hwang

Cross-lingual timbre and style generalizable text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize speech with a specific reference timbre or style that is never trained in the target language. It encounters the following challenges: 1) timbre and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Yahuan Cong , Haoyu Zhang , Haopeng Lin , Shichao Liu , Chunfeng Wang , Yi Ren , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma

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…

In this paper, we study the disentanglement of speaker and language representations in non-autoregressive cross-lingual TTS models from various aspects. We propose a phoneme length regulator that solves the length mismatch problem between…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Haoyue Zhan , Xinyuan Yu , Haitong Zhang , Yang Zhang , Yue Lin

We propose a method for the task of text-conditioned speech insertion, i.e. inserting a speech sample in an input speech sample, conditioned on the corresponding complete text transcript. An example use case of the task would be to update…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Neeraj Matiyali , Siddharth Srivastava , Gaurav Sharma

Recent advances in expressive text-to-speech (TTS) have introduced diverse methods based on style embedding extracted from reference speech. However, synthesizing high-quality expressive speech remains challenging. We propose Spotlight-TTS,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Nam-Gyu Kim , Deok-Hyeon Cho , Seung-Bin Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Zero-shot speaker adaptation aims to clone an unseen speaker's voice without any adaptation time and parameters. Previous researches usually use a speaker encoder to extract a global fixed speaker embedding from reference speech, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yixuan Zhou , Changhe Song , Xiang Li , Luwen Zhang , Zhiyong Wu , Yanyao Bian , Dan Su , Helen Meng

With the popularity of deep neural network, speech synthesis task has achieved significant improvements based on the end-to-end encoder-decoder framework in the recent days. More and more applications relying on speech synthesis technology…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Dongyang Dai , Li Chen , Yuping Wang , Mu Wang , Rui Xia , Xuchen Song , Zhiyong Wu , Yuxuan Wang

In this paper, we introduce SSR-Speech, a neural codec autoregressive model designed for stable, safe, and robust zero-shot textbased speech editing and text-to-speech synthesis. SSR-Speech is built on a Transformer decoder and incorporates…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Helin Wang , Meng Yu , Jiarui Hai , Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Rilin Chen , Najim Dehak , Dong Yu

We propose a novel training strategy for Tacotron-based text-to-speech (TTS) system to improve the expressiveness of speech. One of the key challenges in prosody modeling is the lack of reference that makes explicit modeling difficult. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Rui Liu , Berrak Sisman , Guanglai Gao , Haizhou Li