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In this paper, we experimented with the SpeechT5 model pre-trained on large-scale datasets. We pre-trained the foundation model from scratch and fine-tuned it on a large-scale robust multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) task. We tested the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Jan Lehečka , Zdeněk Hanzlíček , Jindřich Matoušek , Daniel Tihelka

YourTTS brings the power of a multilingual approach to the task of zero-shot multi-speaker TTS. Our method builds upon the VITS model and adds several novel modifications for zero-shot multi-speaker and multilingual training. We achieved…

Text-to-speech (TTS) models have been widely adopted to enhance automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems using text-only corpora, thereby reducing the cost of labeling real speech data. Existing research primarily utilizes additional text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Jiawei Yu , Yuang Li , Xiaosong Qiao , Huan Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhao , Wei Tang , Min Zhang , Hao Yang , Jinsong Su

With the advancement of speech synthesis technology, users have higher expectations for the naturalness and expressiveness of synthesized speech. But previous research ignores the importance of prompt selection. This study proposes a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Dan Luo , Chengyuan Ma , Weiqin Li , Jun Wang , Wei Chen , Zhiyong Wu

Neural speech synthesis, or text-to-speech (TTS), aims to transform a signal from the text domain to the speech domain. While developing TTS architectures that train and test on the same set of speakers has seen significant improvements,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yingting Li , Rishabh Bhardwaj , Ambuj Mehrish , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

Few-shot speaker adaptation is a specific Text-to-Speech (TTS) system that aims to reproduce a novel speaker's voice with a few training data. While numerous attempts have been made to the few-shot speaker adaptation system, there is still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Ji-Hoon Kim , Sang-Hoon Lee , Ji-Hyun Lee , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan 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

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) led to the development of flexible multi-speaker end-to-end TTS systems. We extend state-of-the-art attention-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems with synthetic audio generated by a TTS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Nick Rossenbach , Albert Zeyer , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

End-to-end automatic speech recognition often degrades on domain-specific data due to scarce in-domain resources. We propose a synthetic-data-based domain adaptation framework with two contributions: (1) a large language model (LLM)-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Natsuo Yamashita , Koichi Nagatsuka , Hiroaki Kokubo , Kota Dohi , Tuan Vu Ho

The availability of data in expressive styles across languages is limited, and recording sessions are costly and time consuming. To overcome these issues, we demonstrate how to build low-resource, neural text-to-speech (TTS) voices with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Giulia Comini , Goeric Huybrechts , Manuel Sam Ribeiro , Adam Gabrys , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

It has been known that direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) models usually suffer from the data scarcity issue because of the limited existing parallel materials for both source and target speech. Therefore to train a direct S2ST…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiatong Shi , Yun Tang , Ann Lee , Hirofumi Inaguma , Changhan Wang , Juan Pino , Shinji Watanabe

Zero-shot multi-speaker TTS aims to synthesize speech with the voice of a chosen target speaker without any fine-tuning. Prevailing methods, however, encounter limitations at adapting to new speakers of out-of-domain settings, primarily due…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yejin Jeon , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Data augmentation methods have been a promising direction to improve the performance of small models for low-resource dialogue state tracking. However, traditional methods rely on pre-defined user goals and neglect the importance of data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ming Gu , Yan Yang

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for conversational code-switching speech remains challenging due to the scarcity of realistic, high-quality labeled speech data. This paper explores multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) models as an effective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Yue Heng Yeo , Yuchen Hu , Shreyas Gopal , Yizhou Peng , Hexin Liu , Eng Siong Chng

For personalized speech generation, a neural text-to-speech (TTS) model must be successfully implemented with limited data from a target speaker. To this end, the baseline TTS model needs to be amply generalized to out-of-domain data (i.e.,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Hyungchan Yoon , Changhwan Kim , Eunwoo Song , Hyun-Wook Yoon , Hong-Goo Kang

In recent years, several text-to-speech systems have been proposed to synthesize natural speech in zero-shot, few-shot, and low-resource scenarios. However, these methods typically require training with data from many different speakers.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana , Frank Zalkow , Christian Dittmar , Nicola Pia , Emanuel A. P. Habets

Most text-to-speech (TTS) methods use high-quality speech corpora recorded in a well-designed environment, incurring a high cost for data collection. To solve this problem, existing noise-robust TTS methods are intended to use noisy speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Takaaki Saeki , Kentaro Tachibana , Ryuichi Yamamoto

In realistic speech enhancement settings for end-user devices, we often encounter only a few speakers and noise types that tend to reoccur in the specific acoustic environment. We propose a novel personalized speech enhancement method to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Sunwoo Kim , Minje Kim

Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) has been dominated by deep learning-based end-to-end speech recognition models. These approaches require large amounts of labeled data in the form of audio-text pairs. Moreover, these models are more…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Raviraj Joshi , Anupam Singh

Personalizing a speech synthesis system is a highly desired application, where the system can generate speech with the user's voice with rare enrolled recordings. There are two main approaches to build such a system in recent works: speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Sung-Feng Huang , Chyi-Jiunn Lin , Da-Rong Liu , Yi-Chen Chen , Hung-yi Lee