TTS Synthesis

TTS: Text-to-Speech

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Text-to-speech synthesis studies how to turn written language into speech while preserving words, pronunciation, and the intended voice and delivery. Systems range from autoregressive models that generate speech tokens in sequence to parallel methods such as flow matching and diffusion, often using speaker prompts, phonetic alignment, or prosody controls. Current work extends these methods to multilingual and low-resource languages, expressive speech, long-form output, and low-latency streaming. A central challenge is balancing intelligibility, naturalness, speaker identity, and fine-grained control, while evaluations based on overall quality scores may miss errors in pronunciation, accent, or context.

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  1. Preferences of a Voice-First Nation: Large-Scale Pairwise Evaluation and Preference Analysis for TTS in Indian Languages

    Apr 23, 2026Srija Anand, Ashwin Sankar, Ishvinder Sethi +10Pairwise Preference LearningHuman Preference Evaluation

    Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India · AI4Bharat, India · Josh Talks, India

  2. MAGIC-TTS: Fine-Grained Controllable Speech Synthesis with Explicit Local Duration and Pause Control

    Apr 23, 2026Jialong Mai, Xiaofen Xing, Xiangmin XuTTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

    South China University of Technology

  3. Voice Mapping of Text-to-Speech Systems: A Metric-Based Approach for Voice Quality Assessment

    Apr 21, 2026Huanchen Cai, Sten TernströmTTS SynthesisSpeech Quality Assessment

    Division of Speech, Music and Hearing, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

  4. Self-EmoQ: Plutchik-Guided Value-based Planning to Drive Streaming Emotional TTS

    Apr 21, 2026Yue Zhao, Hongyan Li, Yong Chen +1TTS SynthesisStreaming TTS Synthesis

    Geely AI Lab

  5. ATRIE: Adaptive Tuning for Robust Inference and Emotion in Persona-Driven Speech Synthesis

    Apr 21, 2026Aoduo Li, Haoran Lv, Hongjian Xu +5TTS SynthesisControllable Speech Generation

    Guangdong University of Technology Guangzhou, China · South China University of Technology Guangzhou, China · Shenzhen Polytechnic University Shenzhen, China +2

  6. MINT-Bench: A Comprehensive Multilingual Benchmark for Instruction-Following Text-to-Speech

    Apr 20, 2026Huakang Chen, Jingbin Hu, Liumeng Xue +12TTS SynthesisSpeech Generation Evaluation

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Suzhou, China · Yutu Zhineng, Beijing, China · Lingguang Zhaxian Technology, Shanghai, China

  7. AST: Adaptive, Seamless, and Training-Free Precise Speech Editing

    Apr 17, 2026Sihan Lv, Yechen Jin, Zhen Li +5TTS SynthesisAudio Editing

    School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Institute of Remote Sensing Satellite, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing, China · Innovation and Management Center of the School of Software (Ningbo), Zhejiang University, Ningbo, China +1

  8. Qwen3.5-Omni Technical Report

    Apr 17, 2026Qwen TeamMultimodal GroundingAudio-Visual Understanding

    Qwen Team

  9. Giving Voice to the Constitution: Low-Resource Text-to-Speech for Quechua and Spanish Using a Bilingual Legal Corpus

    Apr 14, 2026John E. Ortega, Rodolfo Zevallos, Fabricio CarraroMultilingual TTS SynthesisTTS Synthesis

    Northeastern University, USA · Universitat Pompeu Fabre, Spain · Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

  10. Knowing What to Stress: A Discourse-Conditioned Text-to-Speech Benchmark

    Apr 12, 2026Arnon Turetzky, Avihu Dekel, Hagai Aronowitz +2TTS SynthesisTTS Evaluation

    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel · IBM Research, Israel

  11. Bridging the Stability-Expressivity Gap: Synthetic Data Scaling and Preference Alignment for Low-Resource Spoken Language Models

    Apr 10, 2026Yizhong Geng, Yanliang Li, Jinghan Yang +4TTS SynthesisSpeech Language Models

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China · Beijing Logic Intelligence Technology, Beijing, China · University of California, USA +2

  12. PS-TTS: Phonetic Synchronization in Text-to-Speech for Achieving Natural Automated Dubbing

    Apr 10, 2026Changi Hong, Yoonah Song, Hwayoung Park +4Lip SynchronizationAudio-Visual Synchronization

    Dept. of AI Convergence, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea · Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea · AunionAI Co., Ltd., Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea

  13. CapTalk: Unified Voice Design for Single-Utterance and Dialogue Speech Generation

    Apr 9, 2026Xiaosu Su, Zihan Sun, Peilei Jia +1TTS SynthesisControllable Speech Generation

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China · Hello Group Inc. Beijing, China

  14. Unlocking Fine-Grained and Within-Utterance Speaking Style Control in Prompt-Based Text-to-Speech Models

    Apr 9, 2026Jaehoon Kang, Yejin Lee, Yoonji Park +1TTS SynthesisControllable Speech Generation

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

  15. A Novel Automatic Framework for Speaker Drift Detection in Synthesized Speech

    Apr 7, 2026Jia-Hong Huang, Seulgi Kim, Yi Chieh Liu +5Speech ProcessingTTS Synthesis

    University of Amsterdam · Georgia Institute of Technology · Halmstad University

  16. Acoustic and perceptual differences between standard and accented speech and their voice clones

    Apr 2, 2026Tianle Yang, Chengzhe Sun, Phil Rose +1TTS SynthesisAudio Generation

    Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, United States · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, United States · Emeritus Faculty, Australian National University, Australia

  17. OmniVoice: Towards Omnilingual Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Diffusion Language Models

    Apr 1, 2026Han Zhu, Lingxuan Ye, Wei Kang +7Multilingual TTS SynthesisTTS Synthesis

    Xiaomi Corp., China

  18. MambaVoiceCloning: Efficient and Expressive Text-to-Speech via State-Space Modeling and Diffusion Control

    Mar 31, 2026Sahil Kumar, Namrataben Patel, Honggang Wang +1Expressive Speech SynthesisTTS Synthesis

    PhD Program in Mathematics, Yeshiva University, New York, NY 10033, USA · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Yeshiva University, New York, NY 10033, USA · School of Artificial Intelligence, Chuzhou University, Anhui, 239000, China

  19. Combining Masked Language Modeling and Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning for Prosody-Aware TTS

    Mar 31, 2026Kirill Borodin, Vasiliy Kudryavtsev, Maxim Maslov +3TTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

    MTUCI, Moscow, Russia

  20. Covertly improving intelligibility with data-driven adaptations of speech timing

    Mar 31, 2026Paige Tuttösí, Angelica Lim, H. Henny Yeung +2Speech ProsodyTTS Synthesis

    School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada · Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, SUPMICROTECH, CNRS, institut FEMTO-ST, France · Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Canada

  21. LongCat-AudioDiT: High-Fidelity Diffusion Text-to-Speech in the Waveform Latent Space

    Mar 31, 2026Detai Xin, Shujie Hu, Chengzuo Yang +4TTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

    Meituan LongCat Team

  22. MOSS-VoiceGenerator: Create Realistic Voices with Natural Language Descriptions

    Mar 30, 2026Kexin Huang, Liwei Fan, Botian Jiang +11Controllable Speech GenerationTTS Synthesis

  23. LLaDA-TTS: Unifying Speech Synthesis and Zero-Shot Editing via Masked Diffusion Modeling

    Mar 27, 2026Xiaoyu Fan, Huizhi Xie, Wei Zou +1TTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

    BRVoice Team, Bairong, Inc., China

  24. Voxtral TTS

    Mar 26, 2026Mistral-AI, :, Alexander H. Liu +186Multilingual TTS SynthesisTTS Synthesis

  25. Rewriting TTS Inference Economics: Lightning V2 on Tenstorrent Achieves 4x Lower Cost Than NVIDIA L40S

    Mar 24, 2026Ranjith M. S., Akshat Mandloi, Sudarshan KamathTTS SynthesisAI Accelerator Inference

    Smallest AI

  26. SelfTTS: cross-speaker style transfer through explicit embedding disentanglement and self-refinement using self-augmentation

    Mar 23, 2026Lucas H. Ueda, João G. T. Lima, Pedro R. Corrêa +3Disentangled Representation LearningTTS Synthesis

    Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil · CPQD, Brazil

  27. Assessing the Ability of Neural TTS Systems to Model Consonant-Induced F0 Perturbation

    Mar 22, 2026Tianle Yang, Chengzhe Sun, Phil Rose +2TTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

    University at Buffalo, Department of Linguistics, Buffalo, 14260, NY, United States · University at Buffalo, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Buffalo, 14260, NY, United States · Australian National University, Emeritus Faculty, Canberra, 0200, ACT, Australia

  28. Gesture2Speech: How Far Can Hand Movements Shape Expressive Speech?

    Mar 20, 2026Lokesh Kumar, Nirmesh Shah, Ashishkumar P. Gudmalwar +1TTS SynthesisControllable Speech Generation

    Media Analysis, Sony Research India

  29. Borderless Long Speech Synthesis

    Mar 20, 2026Xingchen Song, Di Wu, Dinghao Zhou +12Multi-Speaker TTSLong-Form Speech Recognition

    MiLM Plus, Xiaomi Inc., China · WeNet Open Source Community · Nanjing University, China

  30. MOSS-TTSD: Text to Spoken Dialogue Generation

    Mar 20, 2026Yuqian Zhang, Donghua Yu, Zhengyuan Lin +15Multi-Speaker TTSLong-Form Speech Recognition