Text to Speech
Text-to-speech (TTS) research aims to synthesize natural-sounding human speech from textual input, focusing on improving speech quality, speaker similarity, and efficiency. Current efforts concentrate on developing advanced architectures like diffusion models and transformers, often incorporating techniques such as flow matching and semantic communication to enhance both the naturalness and expressiveness of generated speech. This field is crucial for applications ranging from assistive technologies and accessibility tools to combating deepfakes and creating more realistic synthetic datasets for training other AI models.
Papers
Very Attentive Tacotron: Robust and Unbounded Length Generalization in Autoregressive Transformer-Based Text-to-Speech
Eric Battenberg, RJ Skerry-Ryan, Daisy Stanton, Soroosh Mariooryad, Matt Shannon, Julian Salazar, David Kao
Fast and High-Quality Auto-Regressive Speech Synthesis via Speculative Decoding
Bohan Li, Hankun Wang, Situo Zhang, Yiwei Guo, Kai Yu