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We present Translatotron 2, a neural direct speech-to-speech translation model that can be trained end-to-end. Translatotron 2 consists of a speech encoder, a linguistic decoder, an acoustic synthesizer, and a single attention module that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Ye Jia , Michelle Tadmor Ramanovich , Tal Remez , Roi Pomerantz

In this work, we introduce Speech-Copilot, a modular framework for instruction-oriented speech-processing tasks that minimizes human effort in toolset construction. Unlike end-to-end methods using large audio-language models, Speech-Copilot…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Chun-Yi Kuan , Chih-Kai Yang , Wei-Ping Huang , Ke-Han Lu , Hung-yi Lee

Instruction-guided text-to-speech (ITTS) enables users to control speech generation through natural language prompts, offering a more intuitive interface than traditional TTS. However, the alignment between user style instructions and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Yi-Cheng Lin , Huang-Cheng Chou , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Kuan-Yu Chen , Hung-yi Lee

Modern voice cloning, also known as zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), can synthesize speech that closely matches a target speaker from only seconds of reference audio, enabling applications such as personalized speech interfaces and dubbing.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruinan Jin , Xinting Liao , Hanlin Yu , Deval Pandya , Xiaoxiao Li

We introduce DISSC, a novel, lightweight method that converts the rhythm, pitch contour and timbre of a recording to a target speaker in a textless manner. Unlike DISSC, most voice conversion (VC) methods focus primarily on timbre, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Gallil Maimon , Yossi Adi

The landscape of joint audio and video generation has been fundamentally transformed by the advent of powerful foundation models. Despite these strides, achieving cohesive multimodal customization for the simultaneous preservation of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yuheng Chen , Qingdong He , Teng Hu , Yuji Wang , Yabiao Wang , Lizhuang Ma , Jiangning Zhang

This paper discusses the task of face-based speech synthesis, a kind of personalized speech synthesis where the synthesized voices are constrained to perceptually match with a reference face image. Due to the lack of TTS-quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Yao Shi , Yunfei Xu , Hongbin Suo , Yulong Wan , Haifeng Liu

The rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs) has transformed human-computer interaction (HCI), but the interaction with LLMs is currently mainly focused on text-based interactions, while other multi-model approaches remain…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Eason Chen , Chenyu Lin , Xinyi Tang , Aprille Xi , Canwen Wang , Jionghao Lin , Kenneth R Koedinger

We introduce a novel speech synthesis system, called NAUTILUS, that can generate speech with a target voice either from a text input or a reference utterance of an arbitrary source speaker. By using a multi-speaker speech corpus to train…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems have seen significant advancements in recent years, driven by improvements in deep learning and neural network architectures. Viewing the output speech as a data distribution, previous approaches often employ…

At present, Text-to-speech (TTS) systems that are trained with high-quality transcribed speech data using end-to-end neural models can generate speech that is intelligible, natural, and closely resembles human speech. These models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ajinkya Kulkarni , Atharva Kulkarni , Sara Abedalmonem Mohammad Shatnawi , Hanan Aldarmaki

Various applications of voice synthesis have been developed independently despite the fact that they generate "voice" as output in common. In addition, the majority of voice synthesis models currently rely on annotated audio data, but it is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Rongjie Huang , Chunlei Zhang , Yongqi Wang , Dongchao Yang , Luping Liu , Zhenhui Ye , Ziyue Jiang , Chao Weng , Zhou Zhao , Dong Yu

Speech disorders can make communication hard or even impossible for those who develop them. Personalised Text-to-Speech is an attractive option as a communication aid. We attempt voice reconstruction using a large speech model, with which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Ariadna Sanchez , Simon King

Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion remains an interesting but challenging speech processing task. Recently, AutoVC, a conditional autoencoder based method, achieved excellent conversion results by disentangling the speaker identity…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Zhen Zeng , Edward Xiao , Jing Xiao

Generative audio modeling has largely been fragmented into specialized tasks, text-to-speech (TTS), text-to-music (TTM), and text-to-audio (TTA), each operating under heterogeneous control paradigms. Unifying these modalities remains a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Chunyu Qiang , Xiaopeng Wang , Kang Yin , Yuzhe Liang , Yuxin Guo , Teng Ma , Ziyu Zhang , Tianrui Wang , Cheng Gong , Yushen Chen , Ruibo Fu , Chen Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Voice disorders affect a large portion of the population, especially heavy voice users such as teachers or call-center workers. Most voice disorders can be treated effectively with behavioral voice therapy, which teaches patients to replace…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Chuyao Feng , Eva van Leer , Mackenzie Lee Curtis , David V. Anderson

Zero-shot singing voice synthesis (SVS) with style transfer and style control aims to generate high-quality singing voices with unseen timbres and styles (including singing method, emotion, rhythm, technique, and pronunciation) from audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Yu Zhang , Ziyue Jiang , Ruiqi Li , Changhao Pan , Jinzheng He , Rongjie Huang , Chuxin Wang , Zhou Zhao

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have significantly transformed the field of style-captioned text-to-speech synthesis (CapTTS). However, adapting CapTTS to real-world applications remains challenging due to the lack…

Existing mainstream video customization methods focus on generating identity-consistent videos based on given reference images and textual prompts. Benefiting from the rapid advancement of joint audio-video generation, this paper proposes a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Maomao Li , Zhen Li , Kaipeng Zhang , Guosheng Yin , Zhifeng Li , Dong Xu

End-to-end neural TTS has achieved superior performance on reading style speech synthesis. However, it's still a challenge to build a high-quality conversational TTS due to the limitations of the corpus and modeling capability. This study…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Haohan Guo , Shaofei Zhang , Frank K. Soong , Lei He , Lei Xie