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Producing synthetic voice, similar to human-like sound, is an emerging novelty of modern interactive media systems. Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems try to generate synthetic and authentic voices via text input. Besides, well known and familiar…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Mohammad Reza Hasanabadi

With the development of large text-to-speech (TTS) models and scale-up of the training data, state-of-the-art TTS systems have achieved impressive performance. In this paper, we present WenetSpeech4TTS, a multi-domain Mandarin corpus…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Linhan Ma , Dake Guo , Kun Song , Yuepeng Jiang , Shuai Wang , Liumeng Xue , Weiming Xu , Huan Zhao , Binbin Zhang , Lei Xie

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

In this report, we present Qwen2.5-Omni, an end-to-end multimodal model designed to perceive diverse modalities, including text, images, audio, and video, while simultaneously generating text and natural speech responses in a streaming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Jin Xu , Zhifang Guo , Jinzheng He , Hangrui Hu , Ting He , Shuai Bai , Keqin Chen , Jialin Wang , Yang Fan , Kai Dang , Bin Zhang , Xiong Wang , Yunfei Chu , Junyang Lin

In this work, we present Qwen3.5-Omni, the latest advancement in the Qwen-Omni model family. Representing a significant evolution over its predecessor, Qwen3.5-Omni scales to hundreds of billions of parameters and supports a 256k context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Qwen Team

Existing autoregressive large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models have advantages in speech naturalness, but their token-by-token generation mechanism makes it difficult to precisely control the duration of synthesized speech. This becomes a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Siyi Zhou , Yiquan Zhou , Yi He , Xun Zhou , Jinchao Wang , Wei Deng , Jingchen Shu

We introduce a text-to-speech(TTS) framework based on a neural transducer. We use discretized semantic tokens acquired from wav2vec2.0 embeddings, which makes it easy to adopt a neural transducer for the TTS framework enjoying its monotonic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Minchan Kim , Myeonghun Jeong , Byoung Jin Choi , Dongjune Lee , Nam Soo Kim

This paper describes ESPnet2-TTS, an end-to-end text-to-speech (E2E-TTS) toolkit. ESPnet2-TTS extends our earlier version, ESPnet-TTS, by adding many new features, including: on-the-fly flexible pre-processing, joint training with neural…

Recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) have been largely fueled by massive speech corpora. However, extending coverage to diverse languages with limited resources remains a formidable challenge. This paper introduces Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Tianduo Wang , Lu Xu , Wei Lu , Shanbo Cheng

We work to create a multilingual speech synthesis system which can generate speech with the proper accent while retaining the characteristics of an individual voice. This is challenging to do because it is expensive to obtain bilingual…

This paper proposes speaker-adaptive neural vocoders for parametric text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Recently proposed WaveNet-based neural vocoding systems successfully generate a time sequence of speech signal with an autoregressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Eunwoo Song , Jin-Seob Kim , Kyungguen Byun , Hong-Goo Kang

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

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

Cascaded speech-to-speech translation systems often suffer from the error accumulation problem and high latency, which is a result of cascaded modules whose inference delays accumulate. In this paper, we propose a transducer-based speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Jinzheng Zhao , Niko Moritz , Egor Lakomkin , Ruiming Xie , Zhiping Xiu , Katerina Zmolikova , Zeeshan Ahmed , Yashesh Gaur , Duc Le , Christian Fuegen

We introduce a technique for augmenting neural text-to-speech (TTS) with lowdimensional trainable speaker embeddings to generate different voices from a single model. As a starting point, we show improvements over the two state-ofthe-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Sercan Arik , Gregory Diamos , Andrew Gibiansky , John Miller , Kainan Peng , Wei Ping , Jonathan Raiman , Yanqi Zhou

Current dialogue generation approaches typically require the complete dialogue text before synthesis and produce a single, inseparable speech containing all voices, making them unsuitable for interactive chat; moreover, they suffer from…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Kun Xie , Feiyu Shen , Junjie Li , Fenglong Xie , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

Machine Speech Chain, simulating the human perception-production loop, proves effective in jointly improving ASR and TTS. We propose TokenChain, a fully discrete speech chain coupling semantic-token ASR with a two-stage TTS: an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Mingxuan Wang , Satoshi Nakamura

Neural TTS has shown it can generate high quality synthesized speech. In this paper, we investigate the multi-speaker latent space to improve neural TTS for adapting the system to new speakers with only several minutes of speech or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Yan Deng , Lei He , Frank Soong

In this paper, we present SANE-TTS, a stable and natural end-to-end multilingual TTS model. By the difficulty of obtaining multilingual corpus for given speaker, training multilingual TTS model with monolingual corpora is unavoidable. We…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Hyunjae Cho , Wonbin Jung , Junhyeok Lee , Sang Hoon Woo

In recent years, neural network based methods for multi-speaker text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) have made significant progress. However, the current speaker encoder models used in these methods still cannot capture enough speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jinlong Xue , Yayue Deng , Yichen Han , Ya Li , Jianqing Sun , Jiaen Liang