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  1. Steerspeech: Activation Steering For Emotion Control In Generated Speech

    Oct 7, 2026Afsara Benazir, Darius Pétermann, Felix Xiaozhu Lin +1Controllable Speech GenerationEmotional Speech Synthesis

    University of Virginia · Netflix, Inc.

  2. Training-Free Instruction TTS Gender Bias Calibration Using Model-Adaptive Steering

    Oct 7, 2026Kuan-Yu Chen, Yi-Cheng Lin, Jeng-Lin Li +1Text-to-SpeechTTS Synthesis

    AI Research Center, Inventec Corporation, Taiwan · Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  3. Loud and Clear: Dynamic Activation Steering for Improving Speech Intelligibility in Noisy Environments

    Oct 6, 2026Seymanur Akti, Alexander WaibelTTS SynthesisControllable Speech Generation

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany · KIT Campus Transfer (KCT), Karlsruhe, Germany · Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA

  4. Pronunciation-Oriented Reinforcement Learning for Japanese Text-to-Speech with Kana-Domain ASR Rewards

    Oct 6, 2026Shiao Zhu, Lianbo Liu, Kai Washizaki +2TTS Synthesis

    SB Intuitions Corp., Tokyo, Japan

  5. Paradee: Distilling Kokoro-82M into an 8M-Parameter Single-Voice Text-to-Speech Model

    Oct 5, 2026Sahil MahendrakarTTS Synthesis

  6. A Comprehensive Objective Evaluation of Modern Text-to-Speech for Turkish Using Speech Quality Assessment Models

    Oct 5, 2026Yunus Emre Ozkose, Alperen Kahraman, Ali HaznedarogluTTS SynthesisTTS Evaluation

    Sestek, Ankara, Türkiye

  7. Can Prosodic Style Be Inferred from Text Alone? Evidence from Unsupervised Acoustic Clusters

    Oct 4, 2026Abdul Rehman, Jian-Jun Zhang, Xiaosong YangTTS SynthesisSpeech Processing

    National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, U.K.

  8. Balalaika-Longform: A Russian Speech Corpus for Continuous Long-Form Text-to-Speech

    Sep 30, 2026Nikita Vasiliev, Kirill Borodin, Vasilii Kudryavtsev +2TTS SynthesisTTS Evaluation

    BitmanagerAI, Dubai, UAE · lab260, Yerevan, Armenia · MTUCI, Moscow, Russia

  9. SCIC: Scope- and Codebook-Aware Instruction Conditioning for Speaker-Adapted Expressive TTS

    Sep 30, 2026Longyu Lu, Zongwei Du, Mengtao Xing +4TTS SynthesisStreaming TTS Synthesis

    TaoLive-AIGC Team Taobao & Tmall Group of Alibaba

  10. Tacit-TTS: From Autoregressive Decoding to Masked Prediction for Efficient Transcript-Free Voice Cloning

    Sep 29, 2026Jian Chen, You Zhang, Mark VintonTTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

    Dolby Laboratories

  11. RVQ Position Aware Speculative Decoding for On Device Text to Speech

    Sep 29, 2026Berkin Durmus, Eduardo Pacheco, Zach Nagengast +1TTS SynthesisStreaming TTS Synthesis

    Argmax, Inc., USA

  12. Repetition, Not Length: Isolating the Counting Failure in Neural Text-to-Speech

    Sep 29, 2026Kirill Borodin, Vasilii Kudryavtsev, Maxim Maslov +1TTS SynthesisTTS Evaluation

    BitmanagerAI, Dubai, UAE · lab260, Yerevan, Armenia · MTUCI, Moscow, Russia

  13. Distill Locally, Schedule Globally: Flow Maps for Few-Step Text-to-Speech

    Sep 28, 2026Yentl Collin, Evan Dufraisse, Amr Mohamed +3Flow MatchingTTS Synthesis

    Institute of Foundation Models (IFM), MBZUAI

  14. InstCharVoice: Grounding Natural-Language Instructions for Character-Level Control in Text-to-Speech

    Sep 28, 2026Sihang Nie, Xueru Li, Xiaofen Xing +4TTS SynthesisLanguage Model-Based Control

    South China University of Technology · Huya Inc. · The Hongkong Polytechnic University

  15. SEmoEdit: Probing and Harnessing the Editability of Pre-trained Speech Flows

    Sep 28, 2026Tianxin Xie, Pengfei Zhang, Kai Jiang +2TTS SynthesisSpeech Editing

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  16. Harmonizing Spectral Evolution in Conditional Flow Matching for TTS

    Sep 28, 2026Isha Pandey, Varad Deshpande, Abhijat Bharadwaj +1TTS SynthesisConditional Flow Matching

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

  17. Controlling Speaking Rate in Autoregressive TTS via Activation Steering

    Sep 27, 2026Francesco Verdini, Antonis Asonitis, Aref Farhadipour +4TTS SynthesisControllable Speech Generation

    AGIGO · Sapienza University of Rome · ETH Zurich +1

  18. From Script to Drama: An Agentic Framework for Controllable Multi-Speaker Dialogue TTS

    Sep 27, 2026Kangxiang Xia, Xinfa Zhu, HangRui Hu +8TTS SynthesisSpeech Editing

    Independent Researcher

  19. DEFINE: Exemplar-Guided Accent Control for Zero-Shot TTS

    Sep 26, 2026Ambuj Mehrish, Abhinaba Roy, Alex Ivanov +2TTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

    Ca’ Foscari University of Venice · Singapore University of Technology and Design · Kandinsky Lab +1

  20. EditVoice: Variable-Length Non-Autoregressive Zero-Shot TTS and Speech Editing with Edit Flows

    Sep 24, 2026Hongyao Deng, Wenhao Guan, Xuetao Lin +4TTS SynthesisSpeech Editing

    School of Informatics, Xiamen University, China · School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, China

  21. BanglaKontho: Closing the Long-Form Gap in Bangla Text-to-Speech

    Sep 24, 2026Mizbaul Haque MarufTTS SynthesisLow-Resource TTS Synthesis

    Vivasoft Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  22. Accent Analogy Guidance: More Speaker Similarity at Equal Accent in Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning

    Sep 24, 2026Yoomee Cho, Jisun LeeTTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

    ESTsoft, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  23. ReaFlow-TTS: Realization-Conditioned Flow Matching for High-Quality and Controllable Speech Synthesis

    Sep 24, 2026Junyi Zhao, Yihao Qin, Changsheng MaFlow MatchingTTS Synthesis

    School of Information Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, China

  24. EmphTTS: an emphasis-control TTS with reinforcement learning

    Sep 23, 2026Zirui Li, Rech Silas, Lauri Juvela +2TTS SynthesisControllable Speech Generation

    Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

  25. Not Quite My Tempo: Voice Activity-aware Speech Synthesis for Lip-Synchronous Dubbing

    Sep 22, 2026Alejandro Pérez-González-de-Martos, Florian Lux, Angelina Elizarova +3TTS SynthesisAudio-Visual Synchronization

    AppTek GmbH, Germany

  26. Interactive TTS: Dynamic Speaking Style Adaptation for Expressive Speech Synthesis

    Sep 22, 2026Wenjie Tian, Kangxiang Xia, Jingbin Hu +7TTS SynthesisDirect Preference Optimization

    Alibaba ATH Token Foundry

  27. Learnable Classifier-Free Guidance Null Embeddings for Enhanced Controllable Speech Synthesis

    Sep 21, 2026Biel Tura Vecino, Yoach Lacombe, Julian Weber +4Classifier-Free GuidanceTTS Synthesis

    Cantina Labs

  28. CycleSpeech: Reciprocal Alignment for Instruction-Controlled Speech Synthesis and Paralinguistic Understanding

    Sep 21, 2026Huan Liao, Haonan Han, Xingwen Han +3TTS SynthesisControllable Speech Generation

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Tsinghua University · Amphion Technology Co., Ltd.

  29. Morpho-VITS: Variational Inference with Morphological Modeling for End-to-End Speech Synthesis of a Tonal Bantu Language

    Sep 21, 2026Antoine NzeyimanaTTS Synthesis

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

  30. Structure Before Sampling: Community-Aware Core-Set Selection for Data-Efficient Text-to-Speech

    Sep 21, 2026Mizbaul Haque Maruf, Muhammad Nur YanhaonaTTS SynthesisCoreset Selection

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  31. Listen, Critique, and Refine: RL-Based Self-Refinement for Instruction-Following Speech Synthesis

    Sep 21, 2026Chee-En Yu, Yi-Cheng Lin, Sung-Feng Huang +4TTS SynthesisAudio Reasoning

    Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan · Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan · NVIDIA Research 4 Artificial Intelligence Center of Research Excellence, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  32. HaikuS2S: A Cascaded System For Responding In Verse

    Sep 20, 2026Devangi Sharma, Sophia Judicke, Glenda Tan +2TTS SynthesisSpeech Generation Evaluation

    Carnegie Mellon University · Unaffiliated

  33. GrainSpeech: Less Context, More Detail for Compact Speech Synthesis

    Sep 16, 2026Zitao Liang, Chang GaoTTS SynthesisSpeech Processing

    Department of Microelectronics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

  34. Self-Distilled Pronunciation and Accent Control for Neural Text-to-Speech

    Sep 15, 2026Shuhei KatoTTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

    Independent Researcher, Japan · KOWRO Inc., Japan

  35. Taming Long-form Text-to-Speech

    Sep 15, 2026Rongxiang Wang, Berkin Durmus, Aysegul Orhon +2TTS SynthesisTTS Evaluation

    Argmax, Inc. · University of Virginia · Bilkent University

  36. Cross-Lingual F5-TTS 2: A Simplified Framework for Language-Agnostic Voice Cloning

    Sep 14, 2026Qingyu Liu, Rixi Xu, Yushen Chen +11TTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

    Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA · MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, X-LANCE Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China +3

  37. StepAudio 3 Gen Technical Report

    Sep 14, 2026Bin Lin, Bo Zhao, Boyang Wang +68TTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

  38. Tone on a Budget: A Reference-Free Metric for Lexical Tone in Massively Multilingual Text-to-Speech

    Sep 13, 2026Moses Daudu, Adeola Enitan Bamidele, Honor-Jesus BezaleelTTS SynthesisTTS Evaluation

    Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Nigeria · Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria · Independent Researcher

  39. Continuous-Time Acoustic Modelling with Neural Controlled Differential Equations

    Sep 12, 2026Mattias Cross, Minghui Zhao, Anton RagniNeural Controlled Differential EquationsTTS Synthesis

    Speech and Hearing Group University of Sheffield Sheffield, United Kingdom

  40. Complex-Text Robustness Evaluation and Failure Diagnosis for Low-Resource Multilingual Text-to-Speech

    Sep 11, 2026Tianlun Zuo, Ziyu Zhang, Tingzhi Mao +2TTS SynthesisTTS Evaluation

    iFLYTEK Company Ltd., Xi’an, China

  41. Post-Training Zero-Shot TTS for Fine-Grained Emotion and Duration Control via Natural Language

    Sep 10, 2026Lianru Gao, Yujie Guo, Yong QinTTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

    TMCC, College of Computer Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

  42. Deterministic Prompting for Speaker-Stable Low-Resource Greek TTS

    Sep 9, 2026Georgios Syllas, Efthymios Georgiou, Kosmas Kritsis +1TTS SynthesisSpeech Processing

    Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena R.C., Greece · Department of Digital Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

  43. X2-NativeCursor: Native-Token Text Progress Tracking for Incremental-Text Streaming Codec TTS

    Sep 9, 2026Zehan Liu, Carl Chen, Rime Wen +7TTS SynthesisStreaming TTS Synthesis

    X Square Robot

  44. TASTE2: Text-Aligned Speech Modeling and Deployment toward Full-Duplex Voice Interaction

    Sep 8, 2026Yi-Chang Chen, Chun Wei Chen, Dien-Ruei Wu +7TTS SynthesisStreaming TTS Synthesis

    MediaTek Research · Internship at MediaTek Research · National Taiwan University +2

  45. TontaubeV1: Streaming Text-to-Speech with Hierarchical Codec Modeling and Bounded Context

    Sep 8, 2026Fritz Cremer, Jonathan CremerTTS SynthesisStreaming TTS Synthesis

  46. ConversationalVoice: Full-Duplex Speech Data from Real Conversations through Source-Faithful Reconstruction and Conversation-Grounded Expansion

    Sep 8, 2026Richard Yucheng He, Baodong Cao, Chen Xu +2TTS SynthesisData Augmentation

    AveraLabs

  47. KABURI-TTS: Phoneme-Keyed Activity-conditioned Bi-channel Utterance Rendering for Interaction

    Sep 7, 2026Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tetsuji OgawaTTS SynthesisControllable Speech Generation

    Nagoya University, Japan. · National Institute of Informatics, LLMC, Japan. · Keio University, Japan. +1

  48. Alignment-Free Text-Audiobox for Voice Dubbing and Full-Duplex Dialogue Synthesis

    Sep 3, 2026Sanyuan Chen, Min-Jae Hwang, Sho Inoue +12TTS SynthesisAudio Diffusion Models

    FAIR at Meta

  49. Building and Evaluating Fixed-Voice Thai TTS from Synthetic Speech

    Sep 3, 2026Kunat Pipatanakul, Potsawee Manakul, Warit Sirichotedumrong +3TTS SynthesisTTS Evaluation

    Wayu Research · Paxa Labs · Typhoon

  50. Scalable Direction-Following TTS via Voice Impression-Guided Pseudo Triplet Construction

    Sep 2, 2026Kenichi Fujita, Yusuke IjimaText-to-SpeechTTS Synthesis

    NTT, Inc., Japan

  51. Hearing the Whispers: Black-Box Membership Inference Attacks on Finetuned TTS Models

    Sep 1, 2026Kunlin Cai, Kaiyuan Zhang, Zihang Xiang +4TTS SynthesisMembership Inference Attacks

    University of California, Los Angeles · University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  52. Phrase-Localized Language-Contrastive Guidance: Training-Free Localized Accent Control for Code-Switching Text-to-Speech

    Sep 1, 2026Che Hyun Lee, Sangkwon Park, Donghun Kang +4TTS Synthesis

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University · 2Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence, Seoul National University · Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Seoul +1

  53. Phoneme-guided TTS augmentation for ASR: A unified pipeline and multilingual evaluation

    Aug 27, 2026Zhen Wang, TianRui Wu, RongQi Han +3Synthetic Data AugmentationTTS Synthesis

    Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, Shanghai, China · Megatronix (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. · Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  54. FastThaiG2P: Lightning-fast Thai Grapheme-to-phoneme Conversion for Voice Agent Pipelines

    Aug 13, 2026Charin PolpanumasTTS SynthesisSpeech Processing

    AWS

  55. Confucius4-TTS: Transcript-Free Cross-Lingual Zero-Shot TTS with a Learnable Speaker Encoder

    Aug 12, 2026Huaxuan Wang, Huimin Wang, Ruiyu Zhang +2TTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

    NetEase Youdao, Beijing, China

  56. Luna-TTS Family Technical Report

    Aug 12, 2026Feng Yin, Shuai Shi, Junjie Zheng +19Non-Autoregressive Text GenerationTTS Synthesis

    VUI Labs Research

  57. CookVoice: Unified Framework for Style Controllable Multi-Modal Human Voice Generation

    Aug 12, 2026Haowei Lou, Hye-Young Paik, Dai Jia +2Singing Voice SynthesisTTS Synthesis

    UNSW Sydney · Dolby Laboratories

  58. ASR-Roundtrip Evaluation Can Mask Context- and Convention-Dependent Reading Errors in Chinese News TTS

    Aug 11, 2026Shijun Luo, Lizhi WanASR EvaluationTTS Synthesis

    NetEase Cloud Music, Hangzhou, China

  59. Beyond Naturalness: Probing Automated Text-To-Speech Evaluators on Linguistically Grounded Dimensions

    Aug 10, 2026Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Simon Rosen, Jash Shah +6Audio-Language Model EvaluationHuman Preference Evaluation

    ServiceNow

  60. CuteTTS: Efficient and High-Quality Speech Synthesis via Autoregressive Modeling of Continuous Latents

    Aug 9, 2026Yuqian Zhang, Yao Shi, Kexin Huang +6TTS SynthesisStreaming TTS Synthesis

    Work done during internship at OPPO. · OPPO AI Center · Fudan University +1