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End-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is a method that directly converts input text to output acoustic features using a single network. A recent advance of end-to-end TTS is due to a key technique called attention mechanisms, and all…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-02 Yusuke Yasuda , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi

Despite rapid progress in text-to-speech (TTS), open-source systems still lack truly instruction-following, fine-grained control over core speech attributes (e.g., pitch, speaking rate, age, emotion, and style). We present VoiceSculptor, an…

In recent years, speech generation has seen remarkable progress, now achieving one-shot generation capability that is often virtually indistinguishable from real human voice. Integrating such advancements in speech generation with large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Paweł Budzianowski , Taras Sereda , Tomasz Cichy , Ivan Vulić

Controllable text-to-speech (TTS) systems face significant challenges in achieving independent manipulation of speaker timbre and speaking style, often suffering from entanglement between these attributes. We present DMP-TTS, a latent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Kang Yin , Chunyu Qiang , Sirui Zhao , Xiaopeng Wang , Yuzhe Liang , Pengfei Cai , Tong Xu , Chen Zhang , Enhong Chen

Video dubbing aims to generate high-fidelity speech that is precisely temporally aligned with the visual content. Existing methods still suffer from limitations in speech naturalness and audio-visual synchronization, and are limited to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Kaidi Wang , Yi He , Wenhao Guan , Weijie Wu , Hongwu Ding , Xiong Zhang , Di Wu , Meng Meng , Jian Luan , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

In recent years, there has been significant progress in Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis technology, enabling the high-quality synthesis of voices in common scenarios. In unseen situations, adaptive TTS requires a strong generalization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Zhipeng Li , Xiaofen Xing , Jun Wang , Shuaiqi Chen , Guoqiao Yu , Guanglu Wan , Xiangmin Xu

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems offer the opportunity to compensate for a hearing loss at the source rather than correcting for it at the receiving end. This removes limitations such as time constraints for algorithms that amplify a sound in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Josef Schlittenlacher , Thomas Baer

With the demand for autonomous control and personalized speech generation, the style control and transfer in Text-to-Speech (TTS) is becoming more and more important. In this paper, we propose a new TTS system that can perform style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Wenhao Guan , Tao Li , Yishuang Li , Hukai Huang , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

Text-to-song (TTSong) is a music generation task that synthesizes accompanied singing voices. Current TTSong methods, inherited from singing voice synthesis (SVS), require melody-related information that can sometimes be impractical, such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Ruiqi Li , Zhiqing Hong , Yongqi Wang , Lichao Zhang , Rongjie Huang , Siqi Zheng , Zhou Zhao

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the field of controllable Text-to-Speech (TTS). While previous studies have relied on users providing specific style factor values based on acoustic knowledge or selecting reference speeches…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Shengpeng Ji , Jialong Zuo , Minghui Fang , Ziyue Jiang , Feiyang Chen , Xinyu Duan , Baoxing Huai , Zhou Zhao

This paper introduces Embarrassingly Easy Text-to-Speech (E2 TTS), a fully non-autoregressive zero-shot text-to-speech system that offers human-level naturalness and state-of-the-art speaker similarity and intelligibility. In the E2 TTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Xiaofei Wang , Manthan Thakker , Canrun Li , Chung-Hsien Tsai , Zhen Xiao , Hemin Yang , Zirun Zhu , Min Tang , Xu Tan , Yanqing Liu , Sheng Zhao , Naoyuki Kanda

This paper introduces a new end-to-end text-to-speech (E2E-TTS) toolkit named ESPnet-TTS, which is an extension of the open-source speech processing toolkit ESPnet. The toolkit supports state-of-the-art E2E-TTS models, including Tacotron~2,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Tomoki Hayashi , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Katsuki Inoue , Takenori Yoshimura , Shinji Watanabe , Tomoki Toda , Kazuya Takeda , Yu Zhang , Xu Tan

While generative Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems leverage vast ``in-the-wild" data to achieve remarkable success, speech-to-speech processing tasks like enhancement face data limitations, which lead data-hungry generative approaches to distort…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Justin Lovelace , Rithesh Kumar , Jiaqi Su , Ke Chen , Kilian Q Weinberger , Zeyu Jin

Traditional text-to-speech (TTS) methods primarily focus on establishing a mapping between phonemes and mel-spectrograms. However, during the phoneme encoding stage, there is often a lack of real mel-spectrogram auxiliary information, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tianyun Liu

We introduce SupertonicTTS, a novel text-to-speech (TTS) system designed for efficient and streamlined speech synthesis. SupertonicTTS comprises three components: a speech autoencoder for continuous latent representation, a text-to-latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Hyeongju Kim , Jinhyeok Yang , Yechan Yu , Seunghun Ji , Jacob Morton , Frederik Bous , Joon Byun , Juheon Lee

Zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) has recently advanced significantly, enabling models to synthesize speech from text using short, limited-context prompts. These prompts serve as voice exemplars, allowing the model to mimic speaker identity,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hieu-Nghia Huynh-Nguyen , Huynh Nguyen Dang , Ngoc-Son Nguyen , Van Nguyen

This paper presents TTSOps, a fully automated closed-loop framework for constructing multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) systems from noisy, uncurated web-scale speech data, often referred to as ``dark data,'' such as online videos.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Kentaro Seki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Takaaki Saeki , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Recent advances in text-to-speech have made it possible to generate natural-sounding audio from text. However, audiobook narrations involve dramatic vocalizations and intonations by the reader, with greater reliance on emotions, dialogues,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Charuta Pethe , Bach Pham , Felix D Childress , Yunting Yin , Steven Skiena

The recent text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved quality comparable to that of humans; however, its application in spoken dialogue has not been widely studied. This study aims to realize a TTS that closely resembles human dialogue. First, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Kentaro Mitsui , Tianyu Zhao , Kei Sawada , Yukiya Hono , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

The use of electronic textbooks (e-book) has been heavily studied over the years due to their flexibility, accessibility, interactivity and extensibility. Yet current shortcomings of e-book, which is often just a digitized version of the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Noel Nuo Wi Tay , Sheng-Chi Yang , Chang-Shing Lee , Naoyuki Kubota