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Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems find broad applications in voice assistants, e-learning, and audiobook creation. The pursuit of modern models, like Diffusion Models (DMs), holds promise for achieving high-fidelity, real-time speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiang Li , Fan Bu , Ambuj Mehrish , Yingting Li , Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

An unsupervised text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system learns to generate speech waveforms corresponding to any written sentence in a language by observing: 1) a collection of untranscribed speech waveforms in that language; 2) a collection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Junrui Ni , Liming Wang , Heting Gao , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

While recent advances in Text-To-Speech synthesis have yielded remarkable improvements in generating high-quality speech, research on lightweight and fast models is limited. This paper introduces FLY-TTS, a new fast, lightweight and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yinlin Guo , Yening Lv , Jinqiao Dou , Yan Zhang , Yuehai Wang

Controllable TTS models with natural language prompts often lack the ability for fine-grained control and face a scarcity of high-quality data. We propose a two-stage style-controllable TTS system with language models, utilizing a quantized…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yongqi Wang , Chunlei Zhang , Hangting Chen , Zhou Zhao , Dong Yu

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

On account of growing demands for personalization, the need for a so-called few-shot TTS system that clones speakers with only a few data is emerging. To address this issue, we propose Attentron, a few-shot TTS model that clones voices of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Seungwoo Choi , Seungju Han , Dongyoung Kim , Sungjoo Ha

Neural Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is a powerful technology that can generate speech using neural networks. One of the most remarkable features of TTS synthesis is its capability to produce speech in the voice of different speakers. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Vinotha R , Hepsiba D , L. D. Vijay Anand , Deepak John Reji

It is well known that LLM-based systems are data-hungry. Recent LLM-based TTS works typically employ complex data processing pipelines to obtain high-quality training data. These sophisticated pipelines require excellent models at each…

Recent years have witnessed a trend that large language model (LLM) based text-to-speech (TTS) emerges into the mainstream due to their high naturalness and zero-shot capacity. In this paradigm, speech signals are discretized into token…

We present a multispeaker, multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis model based on Tacotron that is able to produce high quality speech in multiple languages. Moreover, the model is able to transfer voices across languages, e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Heiga Zen , Yonghui Wu , Zhifeng Chen , RJ Skerry-Ryan , Ye Jia , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran

We introduce a text-to-speech (TTS) model called BASE TTS, which stands for $\textbf{B}$ig $\textbf{A}$daptive $\textbf{S}$treamable TTS with $\textbf{E}$mergent abilities. BASE TTS is the largest TTS model to-date, trained on 100K hours of…

We propose a novel two-stage text-to-speech (TTS) framework with two types of discrete tokens, i.e., semantic and acoustic tokens, for high-fidelity speech synthesis. It features two core components: the Interpreting module, which processes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Joun Yeop Lee , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Ji-Hyun Lee , Hoon-Young Cho , Nam Soo Kim

In this report, we introduce the Qwen2.5-Coder series, a significant upgrade from its predecessor, CodeQwen1.5. This series includes six models: Qwen2.5-Coder-(0.5B/1.5B/3B/7B/14B/32B). As a code-specific model, Qwen2.5-Coder is built upon…

While recent zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) models achieve impressive results, they typically rely on extensive transcribed speech datasets from numerous speakers and intricate training pipelines. Meanwhile, self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Karl El Hajal , Ajinkya Kulkarni , Enno Hermann , Mathew Magimai. -Doss

This paper describes progress towards making a Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) Frontend that works for many languages and can be easily extended to new languages. We take a Machine Translation (MT) inspired approach to constructing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Alistair Conkie , Andrew Finch

We aim to characterize how different speakers contribute to the perceived output quality of multi-speaker Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis. We automatically rate the quality of TTS using a neural network (NN) trained on human mean opinion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jennifer Williams , Joanna Rownicka , Pilar Oplustil , Simon King

Streaming voice conversion has become increasingly popular for its potential in real-time applications. The recently proposed DualVC 2 has achieved robust and high-quality streaming voice conversion with a latency of about 180ms.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Ziqian Ning , Shuai Wang , Pengcheng Zhu , Zhichao Wang , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie , Mengxiao Bi

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

Token-based text-to-speech (TTS) models have emerged as a promising avenue for generating natural and realistic speech, yet they grapple with low pronunciation accuracy, speaking style and timbre inconsistency, and a substantial need for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunhui Wang , Chang Zeng , Bowen Zhang , Ziyang Ma , Yefan Zhu , Zifeng Cai , Jian Zhao , Zhonglin Jiang , Yong Chen

Recently, sequence-to-sequence (seq-to-seq) models have been successfully applied in text-to-speech (TTS) to synthesize speech for single-language text. To synthesize speech for multiple languages usually requires multi-lingual speech from…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Haitong Zhang , Yue Lin