Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) have substantially improved speech quality and voice cloning fidelity. However, many zero-shot TTS systems still depend on audio prompt transcripts at inference time.
arXiv:2606. 03957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational ASR for lower-resource languages and niche domains is limited by the scarcity of domain-matched multi-speaker training data.
By M\'at\'e Gedeon, P\'eter Mihajlik
Conversational ASR for lower-resource languages and niche domains is limited by the scarcity of domain-matched multi-speaker training data. We propose an augmentation pipeline that generates scenario-level dialogues with participant metadata, maps speaker attributes to TTS voice profiles, and assembles synthesized utterances into speaker-aware simulated conversations.
arXiv:2603. 04219v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate the use of zero-shot text-to-speech (ZS-TTS) as a data augmentation source for low-resource personalized speech synthesis.
By Youngwon Choi, Jinwoo Oh, Hwayeon Kim, Hyeonyu Kim
We present ZONOS2 8B, our latest TTS model, which achieves state-of-the-art naturalness, prosody, and voice cloning fidelity. We improve upon Zonos-v0.
arXiv:2606. 24320v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present ZONOS2 8B, our latest TTS model, which achieves state-of-the-art naturalness, prosody, and voice cloning fidelity.
By Gabriel Clark, Sofian Mejjoute, Mohamed Osman, George Close, Beren Millidge
arXiv:2603.08249v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Audiovisual speech recognition (AVSR) combines acoustic and visual cues to improve transcription robustness under challenging conditions but...
By Pol Buitrago, Javier Hernando
arXiv:2609.38658v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: TTS systems with autoregressive semantic modeling have demonstrated strong zero-shot voice cloning performance and rich expressive variation, but the...
By Jian Chen, You Zhang, Mark Vinton
Aslema is a system developed for the NADI 2026 Shared Task 5, which involves intent recognition and slot filling. The team evaluated four omni LLMs in a zero‑shot setting and found that fine‑tuned models consistently outperform zero‑shot inference. They further improved performance by augmenting data with culturally grounded Tunisian Derja utterances generated by an LLM and synthetic speech produced via voice cloning, achieving top‑ranked results on the official test set.
By Tajwaar Shafiq, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam
X-VC is a zero‑shot streaming voice conversion system that performs one‑step conversion directly in the latent space of a pretrained neural codec. It employs a dual‑conditioning acoustic converter that jointly models source codec latents and target acoustic conditions, while using adaptive normalization to inject utterance‑level speaker information. The model is trained with generated paired data and a role‑assignment strategy, and uses a chunkwise inference scheme with overlap smoothing to achieve low‑latency streaming inference, achieving superior WER, speaker similarity, and real‑time factor on the Seed‑TTS‑Eval benchmark.
By Qixi Zheng, Yuxiang Zhao, Tianrui Wang, Wenxi Chen, Kele Xu, Yikang Li, Qinyuan Cheng, Xipeng Qiu, Kai Yu, Xie Chen
arXiv:2509.10452v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Pretrained automatic speech recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper perform well but still need domain adaptation to handle unseen parlance....
By Akshat Pandey, Karun Kumar, Raphael Tang
arXiv:2607. 22304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic data augmentation in speech is common practice for linguistic tasks like ASR, but has seen far less work for paralinguistic ones, especially clinical tasks where labelled data is expensive and some patient groups are underrepresented.
By Roseline Polle, Owen Parsons, George Fairs, Luis Miguel San Martin Fernandez, Cole Looney, Xiaoliang Wu, Alexandra Livia Georgescu, Stefano Goria