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.
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:2606. 09048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Removing intermediate representations and separately trained decoding stages has become an important direction in generative modeling.
By Wei Fan, Chao-Hong Tan, Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Xiangang Li, Kejiang Chen, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu
arXiv:2608. 08638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) now supports interactive assistants, personalized media, and accessibility tools.
By Yuqian Zhang, Yao Shi, Kexin Huang, Botian Jiang, Zhe Xu, Yiwei Zhao, Min Liang, Shuang Chen, Xipeng Qiu
arXiv:2608. 15690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-audio-video (T2AV) generation models produce a video and its soundtrack from a textual description, but offer no control over whose voice speaks in the output.
By Ivan Mikheev, Viacheslav Vasilev, Anna Dmitrienko, Alexey Letunovskiy, Ivan Kirillov, Kirill Chernyshev, Denis Dimitrov
arXiv:2606. 07080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present dots.
By Shi Lian, Changtao Li, Bohan Li, Hankun Wang, Da Zheng, Junfeng Tian, Yufeng Ma, Colin Zhang, Kai Yu
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. 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
arXiv:2606. 26534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) has enabled high-fidelity and expressive speech synthesis, but it often fails to imitate unseen speaking styles from uncommon scenarios (e.
By Tianxin Xie, Chenxing Li, Dong Yu, Li Liu
arXiv:2607. 02633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present GRAFT, a per-word pronunciation conditioning mechanism for text-to-speech neural codec language modeling.
By Antonis Asonitis, Francesco Verdini, Aref Farhadipour, Vijeta Avijeet, Pierre-Edouard Honnet, Marzieh Razavi, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez
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: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