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Most Zero-shot Multi-speaker TTS (ZS-TTS) systems support only a single language. Although models like YourTTS, VALL-E X, Mega-TTS 2, and Voicebox explored Multilingual ZS-TTS they are limited to just a few high/medium resource languages,…

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With the advent of the big data and large language model era, zero-shot personalized rapid customization has emerged as a significant trend. In this report, we introduce Takin AudioLLM, a series of techniques and models, mainly including…

Current text to speech (TTS) systems usually leverage a cascaded acoustic model and vocoder pipeline with mel-spectrograms as the intermediate representations, which suffer from two limitations: 1) the acoustic model and vocoder are…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yanqing Liu , Ruiqing Xue , Lei He , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao

Modern neural TTS systems are capable of generating natural and expressive speech when provided with sufficient amounts of training data. Such systems can be equipped with prosody-control functionality, allowing for more direct shaping of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Slava Shechtman , Raul Fernandez

Zero-shot streaming text-to-speech is an important research topic in human-computer interaction. Existing methods primarily use a lookahead mechanism, relying on future text to achieve natural streaming speech synthesis, which introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Haiyang Sun , Shujie Hu , Shujie Liu , Lingwei Meng , Hui Wang , Bing Han , Yifan Yang , Yanqing Liu , Sheng Zhao , Yan Lu , Yanmin Qian

Modern sequence to sequence neural TTS systems provide close to natural speech quality. Such systems usually comprise a network converting linguistic/phonetic features sequence to an acoustic features sequence, cascaded with a neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Slava Shechtman , Alex Sorin

Current end-to-end autoregressive TTS systems (e.g. Tacotron 2) have outperformed traditional parallel approaches on the quality of synthesized speech. However, they introduce new problems at the same time. Due to the autoregressive nature,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Yahuan Cong , Ran Zhang , Jian Luan

Current text-to-speech (TTS) models face a persistent limitation: autoregressive (AR) models suffer from low generation efficiency, while modern non-autoregressive (NAR) models experience high latency due to their unordered temporal nature.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhengyan Sheng , Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Zhijie Yan , Liping Chen

Para-/non-linguistic information in speech is pivotal in shaping the listeners' impression. Although zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved high speaker fidelity, modulating subtle para-/non-linguistic information to control perceived…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Kenichi Fujita , Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Ijima

We propose LiveGesture, the first fully streamable, speech-driven full-body gesture generation framework that operates with zero look-ahead and supports arbitrary sequence length. Unlike existing co-speech gesture methods, which are…

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This paper introduces a cross-lingual dubbing system that translates speech from one language to another while preserving key characteristics such as duration, speaker identity, and speaking speed. Despite the strong translation quality of…

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Multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) using a few adaption data is a challenge in practical applications. To address that, we propose a zero-shot multi-speaker TTS, named nnSpeech, that could synthesis a new speaker voice without fine-tuning…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Botao Zhao , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

The mainstream neural text-to-speech(TTS) pipeline is a cascade system, including an acoustic model(AM) that predicts acoustic feature from the input transcript and a vocoder that generates waveform according to the given acoustic feature.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Chenpeng Du , Yiwei Guo , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

This research paper presents a comprehensive review-based study on various Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies. TTS technology is an important aspect of human-computer interaction, enabling machines to convert written text into audible…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Md. Jalal Uddin Chowdhury , Ashab Hussan

End-to-end speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) systems typically struggle with a critical data bottleneck: the scarcity of parallel speech-to-speech corpora. To overcome this, we introduce RosettaSpeech, a novel zero-shot framework trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Zhisheng Zheng , Xiaohang Sun , Tuan Dinh , Abhishek Yanamandra , Abhinav Jain , Zhu Liu , Sunil Hadap , Vimal Bhat , Manoj Aggarwal , Gerard Medioni , David Harwath

With the number of smart devices increasing, the demand for on-device text-to-speech (TTS) increases rapidly. In recent years, many prominent End-to-End TTS methods have been proposed, and have greatly improved the quality of synthesized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-18 Zhiying Huang , Hao Li , Ming Lei

Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) technology have increased demand for personalized audio synthesis. Zero-shot voice cloning, a specialized TTS task, aims to synthesize a target speaker's voice using only a single audio sample and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ming Meng , Ziyi Yang , Jian Yang , Zhenjie Su , Yonggui Zhu , Zhaoxin Fan

Incremental text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis generates utterances in small linguistic units for the sake of real-time and low-latency applications. We previously proposed an incremental TTS method that leverages a large pre-trained language…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Takaaki Saeki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems rely on studio-quality speech recorded in controlled settings.a Recently, an effort known as noisy-TTS training has emerged, aiming to utilize in-the-wild data. However, the lack of dedicated…

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have led to significant progress in text-based dialogue systems. These systems can now generate high-quality responses that are accurate and coherent across a wide range of topics and…

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