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Neural end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) , which adopts either a recurrent model, e.g. Tacotron, or an attention one, e.g. Transformer, to characterize a speech utterance, has achieved significant improvement of speech synthesis. However, it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Xi Wang , Huaiping Ming , Lei He , Frank K. Soong

We present MParrotTTS, a unified multilingual, multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis model that can produce high-quality speech. Benefiting from a modularized training paradigm exploiting self-supervised speech representations,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Neil Shah , Vishal Tambrahalli , Saiteja Kosgi , Niranjan Pedanekar , Vineet Gandhi

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

In this work, we present the SOMOS dataset, the first large-scale mean opinion scores (MOS) dataset consisting of solely neural text-to-speech (TTS) samples. It can be employed to train automatic MOS prediction systems focused on the…

Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis using deep learning relies on voice quality. Modern TTS models are advanced, but they need large amount of data. Given the growing computational complexity of these models and the scarcity of large,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ze Liu

We introduce StyleFusion-TTS, a prompt and/or audio referenced, style and speaker-controllable, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system designed to enhance the editability and naturalness of current research literature. We propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Zhiyong Chen , Xinnuo Li , Zhiqi Ai , Shugong Xu

We introduce Metis, a foundation model for unified speech generation. Unlike previous task-specific or multi-task models, Metis follows a pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm. It is pre-trained on large-scale unlabeled speech data using…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yuancheng Wang , Jiachen Zheng , Junan Zhang , Xueyao Zhang , Huan Liao , Zhizheng Wu

Customizable multilingual zero-shot singing voice synthesis (SVS) has various potential applications in music composition and short video dubbing. However, existing SVS models overly depend on phoneme and note boundary annotations, limiting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Yu Zhang , Wenxiang Guo , Changhao Pan , Dongyu Yao , Zhiyuan Zhu , Ziyue Jiang , Yuhan Wang , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

Generative models for speech synthesis face a fundamental trade-off: discrete tokens ensure stability but sacrifice expressivity, while continuous signals retain acoustic richness but suffer from error accumulation due to task entanglement.…

This work proposes FireRedTTS, a foundation text-to-speech framework, to meet the growing demands for personalized and diverse generative speech applications. The framework comprises three parts: data processing, foundation system, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Hao-Han Guo , Yao Hu , Kun Liu , Fei-Yu Shen , Xu Tang , Yi-Chen Wu , Feng-Long Xie , Kun Xie , Kai-Tuo Xu

This paper presents a method for end-to-end cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) which aims to preserve the target language's pronunciation regardless of the original speaker's language. The model used is based on a non-attentive Tacotron…

While recent zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) models achieve impressive results, they typically rely on extensive transcribed speech datasets from numerous speakers and intricate training pipelines. Meanwhile, self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Karl El Hajal , Ajinkya Kulkarni , Enno Hermann , Mathew Magimai. -Doss

Controllable TTS models with natural language prompts often lack the ability for fine-grained control and face a scarcity of high-quality data. We propose a two-stage style-controllable TTS system with language models, utilizing a quantized…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yongqi Wang , Chunlei Zhang , Hangting Chen , Zhou Zhao , Dong Yu

We present the gradual style adaptor TTS (GSA-TTS) with a novel style encoder that gradually encodes speaking styles from an acoustic reference for zero-shot speech synthesis. GSA first captures the local style of each semantic sound unit.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Seokgi Lee , Jungjun Kim

In this work, we address the Text-to-Speech (TTS) task by proposing a non-autoregressive architecture called EfficientTTS. Unlike the dominant non-autoregressive TTS models, which are trained with the need of external aligners, EfficientTTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Chenfeng Miao , Shuang Liang , Zhencheng Liu , Minchuan Chen , Jun Ma , Shaojun Wang , Jing Xiao

This paper aims to enhance low-resource TTS by reducing training data requirements using compact speech representations. A Multi-Stage Multi-Codebook (MSMC) VQ-GAN is trained to learn the representation, MSMCR, and decode it to waveforms.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Haohan Guo , Fenglong Xie , Xixin Wu , Hui Lu , Helen Meng

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

While recent advances in Text-To-Speech synthesis have yielded remarkable improvements in generating high-quality speech, research on lightweight and fast models is limited. This paper introduces FLY-TTS, a new fast, lightweight and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yinlin Guo , Yening Lv , Jinqiao Dou , Yan Zhang , Yuehai Wang

We aim to characterize how different speakers contribute to the perceived output quality of multi-speaker Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis. We automatically rate the quality of TTS using a neural network (NN) trained on human mean opinion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jennifer Williams , Joanna Rownicka , Pilar Oplustil , Simon King

Although recent neural text-to-speech (TTS) systems have achieved high-quality speech synthesis, there are cases where a TTS system generates low-quality speech, mainly caused by limited training data or information loss during knowledge…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Yeunju Choi , Youngmoon Jung , Youngjoo Suh , Hoirin Kim