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. MOSS-TTS Technical Report

    Mar 18, 2026Yitian Gong, Botian Jiang, Yiwei Zhao +23TTS SynthesisSpeech Foundation Models

  2. CAST-TTS: A Simple Cross-Attention Framework for Unified Timbre Control in TTS

    Mar 17, 2026Zihao Zheng, Wen Wu, Chao Zhang +2TTS SynthesisControllable Speech Generation

    Shanghai AI Lab, China · MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, X-LANCE Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  3. WAND: Windowed Attention and Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Autoregressive Text-to-Speech Models

    Mar 17, 2026Hanna Lee, Tan Dat Nguyen, Jaehoon Kang +1TTS SynthesisSelf-Attention

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea · Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea

  4. NV-Bench: Benchmark of Nonverbal Vocalization Synthesis for Expressive Text-to-Speech Generation

    Mar 16, 2026Qinke Ni, Huan Liao, Dekun Chen +2Nonverbal Vocalization GenerationExpressive Speech Synthesis

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  5. WhispSynth: Scaling Multilingual Whisper Corpus through Real Data Curation and A Novel Pitch-free Generative Framework

    Mar 16, 2026Tianyi Tan, Jiaxin Ye, Yuanming Zhang +4Speech ProcessingTTS Synthesis

    Key Laboratory of Modern Acoustics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China · Fudan University, Shanghai, China · ByteDance, China

  6. DiFlowDubber: Discrete Flow Matching for Automated Video Dubbing via Cross-Modal Alignment and Synchronization

    Mar 15, 2026Ngoc-Son Nguyen, Thanh V. T. Tran, Jeongsoo Choi +3Expressive Speech SynthesisTTS Synthesis

    FPT Software AI Center, Vietnam · KAIST, South Korea · Independent researcher, work done in part while author was at the FPT Software AI Center, Vietnam. +1

  7. Causal Prosody Mediation for Text-to-Speech:Counterfactual Training of Duration, Pitch, and Energy in FastSpeech2

    Mar 12, 2026Suvendu Sekhar MohantyTTS SynthesisSpeech Prosody

    Arlington, Virginia, USA

  8. When Fine-Tuning Fails and when it Generalises: Role of Data Diversity and Mixed Training in LLM-based TTS

    Mar 11, 2026Anupam Purwar, Aditya ChoudharyTTS SynthesisText-to-Speech

    Sprinklr AI Gurugram, India

  9. Fish Audio S2 Technical Report

    Mar 9, 2026Shijia Liao, Yuxuan Wang, Songting Liu +11Multi-Speaker TTSTTS Synthesis

  10. Speech Generation Speaker Poisoning: Capability Erasure in Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech

    Mar 8, 2026Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Thanapat Trachu, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy +1TTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

    Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory, University of Southern California · Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California

  11. Learning-free L2-Accented Speech Generation using Phonological Rules

    Mar 8, 2026Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Yoonjeong Lee, Jihwan Lee +3TTS Synthesis

    Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab, University of Southern California, USA · Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California

  12. Accent Vector: Controllable Accent Manipulation for Multilingual TTS Without Accented Data

    Mar 8, 2026Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Thanapat Trachu, Jihwan Lee +3Multilingual TTS SynthesisTTS Synthesis

    Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab, University of Southern California, USA · Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, USA · Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California

  13. Bolbosh: Script-Aware Flow Matching for Kashmiri Text-to-Speech

    Mar 8, 2026Tajamul Ashraf, Burhaan Rasheed Zargar, Saeed Abdul Muizz +5TTS SynthesisLow-Resource TTS Synthesis

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) · Gaash Lab, National Institute of Technology Srinagar · Department of Linguistics, University of Kashmir.

  14. The Talking Robot: Distortion-Robust Acoustic Models for Robot-Robot Communication

    Mar 7, 2026Hanlong Li, Karishma Kamalahasan, Jiahui Li +2Robust ASRAutomatic Speech Recognition

    Institute of Science Tokyo · Georgia Institute of Technology

  15. Prosodic Boundary-Aware Streaming Generation for LLM-Based TTS with Streaming Text Input

    Mar 6, 2026Changsong Liu, Tianrui Wang, Ye Ni +2Long-Form TTS SynthesisTTS Synthesis

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Tianjin University, China · Southeast University, China

  16. MSpoofTTS: Multi-Resolution Spoof-Guided Inference for Discrete Speech Synthesis

    Mar 5, 2026Junchuan Zhao, Minh Duc Vu, Ye WangTTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

    School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore · Department of Statistics & Data Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  17. ZeSTA: Zero-Shot TTS Augmentation with Domain-Conditioned Training for Data-Efficient Personalized Speech Synthesis

    Mar 4, 2026Youngwon Choi, Jinwoo Oh, Hwayeon Kim +1Personalized Speech RecognitionTTS Synthesis

    Maum AI Inc., Republic of Korea · Humelo Inc., Republic of Korea

  18. More Data, Fewer Diacritics: Scaling Arabic TTS

    Mar 2, 2026Ahmed Musleh, Yifan Zhang, Kareem DarwishTTS SynthesisLow-Resource TTS Synthesis

    QCRI, HBKU, Qatar

  19. End-to-End Simultaneous Dysarthric Speech Reconstruction with Frame-Level Adaptor and Multiple Wait-k Knowledge Distillation

    Mar 2, 2026Minghui Wu, Haitao Tang, Jiahuan Fan +2Clinical Speech ProcessingTTS Synthesis

    University of Science and Technology of China, China · iFlytek Co., Ltd., China

  20. DARS: Dysarthria-Aware Rhythm-Style Synthesis for ASR Enhancement

    Mar 2, 2026Minghui Wu, Xueling Liu, Jiahuan Fan +3Synthetic Data Augmentation for Speech RecognitionTTS Synthesis

    University of Science and Technology of China, China · iFlytek Co., Ltd., China · Huawei Technology, China

  21. TADA: A Generative Framework for Speech Modeling via Text-Acoustic Dual Alignment

    Feb 26, 2026Trung Dang, Sharath Rao, Ananya Gupta +6TTS SynthesisSpeech Processing

    Hume AI, USA · Dartmouth College, USA

  22. CTC-TTS: LLM-based dual-streaming text-to-speech with CTC alignment

    Feb 23, 2026Hanwen Liu, Saierdaer Yusuyin, Hao Huang +1TTS SynthesisStreaming TTS Synthesis

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, China · Speech Processing and Machine Intelligence (SPMI) Lab, Tsinghua University, China

  23. CosyAccent: Duration-Controllable Accent Normalization Using Source-Synthesis Training Data

    Feb 22, 2026Qibing Bai, Shuhao Shi, Shuai Wang +3Speech ProcessingControllable Speech Generation

    SDS, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · SRIBD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · Tencent Ethereal Audio Lab, Tencent, Shenzhen, China +3

  24. LLM-to-Speech: A Synthetic Data Pipeline for Training Dialectal Text-to-Speech Models

    Feb 17, 2026Ahmed Khaled Khamis, Hesham AliTTS SynthesisLow-Resource TTS Synthesis

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Nile University

  25. Probing Human Articulatory Constraints in End-to-End TTS with Reverse and Mismatched Speech-Text Directions

    Feb 16, 2026Parth Khadse, Sunil Kumar KopparapuTTS Synthesis

    TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Mumbai, India

  26. Zero-Shot Lombard Speech Synthesis with Controllable Style Embeddings

    Jan 19, 2026Seymanur Akti, Alexander WaibelTTS SynthesisZero-Shot TTS

    KIT Campus Transfer GmbH (KCT) · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) · Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

  27. Decoding Order Matters in Autoregressive Speech Synthesis

    Jan 13, 2026Minghui Zhao, Anton RagniAdaptive InferenceTTS Synthesis

    School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, 211 Portobello, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK

  28. SyncVoice: Simple and Effective Automatic Video Dubbing with Vision-Augmented TTS

    Nov 23, 2025Kaidi Wang, Yi He, Wenhao Guan +9TTS SynthesisAudio-Visual Synchronization

    School of Informatics, Xiamen University, China · MiLM Plus, Xiaomi Inc., China · School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, China +1

  29. Bayesian Speech Synthesizers Can Learn from Multiple Teachers

    Oct 28, 2025Ziyang Zhang, Yifan Gao, Xuenan Xu +3TTS SynthesisBayesian Neural Networks

    Tsinghua University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

  30. ParsVoice: A Large-Scale Multi-Speaker Persian Speech Corpus for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

    Oct 12, 2025Mohammad Javad Ranjbar Kalahroodi, Heshaam Faili, Azadeh ShakeryTTS SynthesisMulti-Speaker TTS

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran · Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran