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The task of few-shot style transfer for voice cloning in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims at transferring speaking styles of an arbitrary source speaker to a target speaker's voice using very limited amount of neutral data. This is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Songxiang Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu

While most research into speech synthesis has focused on synthesizing high-quality speech for in-dataset speakers, an equally essential yet unsolved problem is synthesizing speech for unseen speakers who are out-of-dataset with limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Wenbin Wang , Yang Song , Sanjay Jha

Speech-to-singing voice conversion (STS) task always suffers from data scarcity, because it requires paired speech and singing data. Compounding this issue are the challenges of content-pitch alignment and the suboptimal quality of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Ruiqi Li , Rongjie Huang , Yongqi Wang , Zhiqing Hong , Zhou Zhao

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

This paper investigates methods to effectively retrieve speaker information from the personalized speaker adapted neural network acoustic models (AMs) in automatic speech recognition (ASR). This problem is especially important in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Natalia Tomashenko , Salima Mdhaffar , Marc Tommasi , Yannick Estève , Jean-François Bonastre

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

While neural text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved human-like natural synthetic speech, multilingual TTS systems are limited to resource-rich languages due to the need for paired text and studio-quality audio data. This paper proposes a method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Takaaki Saeki , Soumi Maiti , Xinjian Li , Shinji Watanabe , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Training neural text-to-speech (TTS) models for a new speaker typically requires several hours of high quality speech data. Prior works on voice cloning attempt to address this challenge by adapting pre-trained multi-speaker TTS models for…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Paarth Neekhara , Jason Li , Boris Ginsburg

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

Synthesizing the voices of unseen speakers remains a persisting challenge in multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS). Existing methods model speaker characteristics through speaker conditioning during training, leading to increased model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Shreeram Suresh Chandra , Junchen Lu , Berrak Sisman

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models have significantly advanced speech processing tasks, and several benchmarks have been proposed to validate their effectiveness. However, previous benchmarks have primarily focused on single-speaker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Junyi Peng , Takanori Ashihara , Marc Delcroix , Tsubasa Ochiai , Oldrich Plchot , Shoko Araki , Jan Černocký

Novel text-to-speech systems can generate entirely new voices that were not seen during training. However, it remains a difficult task to efficiently create personalized voices from a high-dimensional speaker space. In this work, we use…

Data efficient voice cloning aims at synthesizing target speaker's voice with only a few enrollment samples at hand. To this end, speaker adaptation and speaker encoding are two typical methods based on base model trained from multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Jian Cong , Shan Yang , Lei Xie , Guoqiao Yu , Guanglu Wan

The advent of ChatGPT has introduced innovative methods for information gathering and analysis. However, the information provided by ChatGPT is limited to text, and the visualization of this information remains constrained. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhichao Wang , Mengyu Dai , Keld Lundgaard

We present a meta-learning approach for adaptive text-to-speech (TTS) with few data. During training, we learn a multi-speaker model using a shared conditional WaveNet core and independent learned embeddings for each speaker. The aim of…

Adaptive text to speech (TTS) can synthesize new voices in zero-shot scenarios efficiently, by using a well-trained source TTS model without adapting it on the speech data of new speakers. Considering seen and unseen speakers have diverse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Yihan Wu , Xu Tan , Bohan Li , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Ruihua Song , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

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

Voice cloning is the task of learning to synthesize the voice of an unseen speaker from a few samples. While current voice cloning methods achieve promising results in Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis for a new voice, these approaches lack…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Paarth Neekhara , Shehzeen Hussain , Shlomo Dubnov , Farinaz Koushanfar , Julian McAuley

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

Text-to-speech (TTS) models have achieved remarkable naturalness in recent years, yet like most deep neural models, they have more parameters than necessary. Sparse TTS models can improve on dense models via pruning and extra retraining, or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Perry Lam , Huayun Zhang , Nancy F. Chen , Berrak Sisman , Dorien Herremans