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Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) remains constrained in practical deployment due to its strong dependence on accurate phoneme-level alignment and manually annotated melody contours, requirements that are resource-intensive and hinder…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Junjie Zheng , Chunbo Hao , Guobin Ma , Xiaoyu Zhang , Gongyu Chen , Chaofan Ding , Zihao Chen , Lei Xie

As an endangered language, Manchu presents unique challenges for speech synthesis, including severe data scarcity and strong phonological agglutination. This paper proposes ManchuTTS(Manchu Text to Speech), a novel approach tailored to…

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In this work, we present DiffVoice, a novel text-to-speech model based on latent diffusion. We propose to first encode speech signals into a phoneme-rate latent representation with a variational autoencoder enhanced by adversarial training,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Zhijun Liu , Yiwei Guo , Kai Yu

While Diffusion Generative Models have achieved great success on image generation tasks, how to efficiently and effectively incorporate them into speech generation especially translation tasks remains a non-trivial problem. Specifically,…

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To advance continuous-valued token modeling and temporal-coherence enforcement, we propose FELLE, an autoregressive model that integrates language modeling with token-wise flow matching. By leveraging the autoregressive nature of language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Hui Wang , Shujie Liu , Lingwei Meng , Jinyu Li , Yifan Yang , Shiwan Zhao , Haiyang Sun , Yanqing Liu , Haoqin Sun , Jiaming Zhou , Yan Lu , Yong Qin

This paper proposes a novel Sequence-to-Sequence (Seq2Seq) model integrating the structure of Hidden Semi-Markov Models (HSMMs) into its attention mechanism. In speech synthesis, it has been shown that methods based on Seq2Seq models using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yoshihiko Nankaku , Kenta Sumiya , Takenori Yoshimura , Shinji Takaki , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Keiichi Tokuda

We propose SelfVC, a training strategy to iteratively improve a voice conversion model with self-synthesized examples. Previous efforts on voice conversion focus on factorizing speech into explicitly disentangled representations that…

Human speech goes beyond the mere transfer of information; it is a profound exchange of emotions and a connection between individuals. While Text-to-Speech (TTS) models have made huge progress, they still face challenges in controlling the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Guanrou Yang , Chen Yang , Qian Chen , Ziyang Ma , Wenxi Chen , Wen Wang , Tianrui Wang , Yifan Yang , Zhikang Niu , Wenrui Liu , Fan Yu , Zhihao Du , Zhifu Gao , ShiLiang Zhang , Xie Chen

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

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…

Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis plays an important role in human-computer interaction. Currently, most TTS technologies focus on the naturalness of speech, namely,making the speeches sound like humans. However, the key tasks of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jinyin Chen , Linhui Ye , Zhaoyan Ming

Accent plays a significant role in speech communication, influencing one's capability to understand as well as conveying a person's identity. This paper introduces a novel and efficient framework for accented Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Jan Melechovsky , Ambuj Mehrish , Berrak Sisman , Dorien Herremans

Despite the remarkable capabilities of Language Models (LMs) across diverse tasks, no single model consistently outperforms others, necessitating efficient methods to combine their strengths without expensive retraining. Existing model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jian Gu , Aldeida Aleti , Chunyang Chen , Hongyu Zhang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved notable success in enhancing translation performance by integrating multimodal information. However, existing research primarily focuses on image-guided methods, whose applicability is…

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This study aims at designing an environment-aware text-to-speech (TTS) system that can generate speech to suit specific acoustic environments. It is also motivated by the desire to leverage massive data of speech audio from heterogeneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Daxin Tan , Guangyan Zhang , Tan Lee

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) synthesizes speech in a target speaker's voice while preserving linguistic and paralinguistic content. However, timbre leakage-where source speaker traits persist-remains a challenge, especially in neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Shivam Mehta , Yingru Liu , Zhenyu Tang , Kainan Peng , Vimal Manohar , Shun Zhang , Mike Seltzer , Qing He , Mingbo Ma

Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) has witnessed rapid progress in recent years, where neural methods became capable of producing audios with high naturalness. However, these efforts still suffer from two types of latencies: (a) the {\em…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mingbo Ma , Baigong Zheng , Kaibo Liu , Renjie Zheng , Hairong Liu , Kainan Peng , Kenneth Church , Liang Huang

Recent advancements in speech-to-speech dialogue systems leverage LLMs for multimodal interactions, yet they remain hindered by fine-tuning requirements, high computational overhead, and text-speech misalignment. Existing speech-enabled…

Streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to emit each hypothesized word as quickly and accurately as possible. However, emitting fast without degrading quality, as measured by word error rate (WER), is highly challenging. Existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Jiahui Yu , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Bo Li , Shuo-yiin Chang , Tara N. Sainath , Yanzhang He , Arun Narayanan , Wei Han , Anmol Gulati , Yonghui Wu , Ruoming Pang

Tokenising continuous speech into sequences of discrete tokens and modelling them with language models (LMs) has led to significant success in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. Although these models can generate speech with high quality and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Zehai Tu , Guangyan Zhang , Yiting Lu , Adaeze Adigwe , Simon King , Yiwen Guo