EmphTTS: an emphasis-control TTS with reinforcement learning

EmphTTS is a non‑autoregressive text‑to‑speech system that uses Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to train its duration predictor with an emphasis localization reward, allowing direct word‑level emphasis control. The system outperforms existing baselines in both objective emphasis evaluation and subjective preference tests, and ablation studies confirm that GRPO improves emphasis realization while reducing mismatch between the duration predictor and the TTS model.

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• reinforcement-learning
• fine-tuning
• multimodal
• benchmarks