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This letter presents an incremental text-to-speech (TTS) method that performs synthesis in small linguistic units while maintaining the naturalness of output speech. Incremental TTS is generally subject to a trade-off between latency and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Takaaki Saeki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Non-autoregressive (NAR) text-to-speech synthesis relies on length alignment between text sequences and audio representations, constraining naturalness and expressiveness. Existing methods depend on duration modeling or pseudo-alignment…

Scaling text-to-speech to a large and wild dataset has been proven to be highly effective in achieving timbre and speech style generalization, particularly in zero-shot TTS. However, previous works usually encode speech into latent using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Ziyue Jiang , Yi Ren , Zhenhui Ye , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Qian Yang , Shengpeng Ji , Rongjie Huang , Chunfeng Wang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

This paper introduces Interleaved Speech-Text Language Model (IST-LM) for zero-shot streaming Text-to-Speech (TTS). Unlike many previous approaches, IST-LM is directly trained on interleaved sequences of text and speech tokens with a fixed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Yifan Yang , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Hui Wang , Lingwei Meng , Haiyang Sun , Yuzhe Liang , Ziyang Ma , Yuxuan Hu , Rui Zhao , Jianwei Yu , Yan Lu , Xie Chen

We present a controlled empirical comparison between autoregressive (AR) and masked diffusion (MDLM) language models. Both models are trained on identical data (50M tokens from TinyStories), identical compute budget (20,000 steps, batch…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Caio Vicentino

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

Beyond parallel generation and global context modeling, current masked diffusion large language models (masked dLLMs, i.e., LLaDA) suffer from a fundamental limitation: they require a predefined, fixed generation length, which lacks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jingyi Yang , Yuxian Jiang , Jing Shao

Although lip-to-speech synthesis (L2S) has achieved significant progress in recent years, current state-of-the-art methods typically rely on intermediate representations such as mel-spectrograms or discrete self-supervised learning (SSL)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Yifan Liang , Andong Li , Kang Yang , Guochen Yu , Fangkun Liu , Lingling Dai , Xiaodong Li , Chengshi Zheng

Most existing text-to-speech (TTS) systems either synthesize speech sentence by sentence and stitch the results together, or drive synthesis from plain-text dialogues alone. Both approaches leave models with little understanding of global…

This paper introduces StyleSpeech, a novel Text-to-Speech~(TTS) system that enhances the naturalness and accuracy of synthesized speech. Building upon existing TTS technologies, StyleSpeech incorporates a unique Style Decorator structure…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Haowei Lou , Helen Paik , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

Text-to-speech (TTS) methods have shown promising results in voice cloning, but they require a large number of labeled text-speech pairs. Minimally-supervised speech synthesis decouples TTS by combining two types of discrete speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Yixin Tian , Yi Zhao , Ying Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Autoregressive (AR) language models have emerged as powerful solutions for zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, capable of generating natural speech from a few seconds of audio prompts. However, conventional AR-based TTS systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Chun Yat Wu , Jiajun Deng , Guinan Li , Qiuqiang Kong , Simon Lui

The immense scale of the recent large language models (LLM) allows many interesting properties, such as, instruction- and chain-of-thought-based fine-tuning, that has significantly improved zero- and few-shot performance in many natural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Ambuj Mehrish , Soujanya Poria

We propose a novel two-stage text-to-speech (TTS) framework with two types of discrete tokens, i.e., semantic and acoustic tokens, for high-fidelity speech synthesis. It features two core components: the Interpreting module, which processes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Joun Yeop Lee , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Ji-Hyun Lee , Hoon-Young Cho , Nam Soo Kim

Autoregressive (AR) Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant success across numerous tasks. However, the AR modeling paradigm presents certain limitations; for instance, contemporary autoregressive LLMs are trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Justin Deschenaux , Caglar Gulcehre

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

While modern Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems achieve high fidelity for read-style speech, they struggle to generate Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), a specialized, low-intensity speech style essential for relaxation. The inherent…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Leying Zhang , Tingxiao Zhou , Haiyang Sun , Mengxiao Bi , Yanmin Qian

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

Current Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) typically encode frames via a vision encoder and employ an autoregressive (AR) LLM for understanding and generation. However, this AR paradigm inevitably faces a dual efficiency bottleneck:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhihao He , Tieyuan Chen , Kangyu Wang , Ziran Qin , Yang Shao , Chaofan Gan , Shijie Li , Zuxuan Wu , Weiyao Lin

This work proposes GLM-TTS, a production-level TTS system designed for efficiency, controllability, and high-fidelity speech generation. GLM-TTS follows a two-stage architecture, consisting of a text-to-token autoregressive model and a…