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Controlling Speaking Rate in Autoregressive TTS via Activation Steering
Francesco Verdini, Antonis Asonitis, Aref Farhadipour +4
Autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems synthesize natural speech but, once trained, offer little control over speaking rate. We show that speaking rate can be steered at infer…
The Limits of Reference-Free Speech Quality Metrics as Evaluators and Rewards on Modern Text-to-Speech
Antonis Asonitis, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez, Francesco Verdini +4
Reference-free quality predictors such as UTMOS, DNSMOS and SCOREQ are the de facto automatic evaluators for text-to-speech (TTS) and are increasingly adopted as reward signals for…
GRAFT: Grafted Reference Audio for Fine-grained Pronunciation in Zero-shot Text-to-Speech
Antonis Asonitis, Francesco Verdini, Aref Farhadipour +4
We present GRAFT, a per-word pronunciation conditioning mechanism for text-to-speech neural codec language modeling. Existing systems reach high intelligibility and naturalness but…