3 papers
cs.SD2026
SCIC: Scope- and Codebook-Aware Instruction Conditioning for Speaker-Adapted Expressive TTS
Longyu Lu, Zongwei Du, Mengtao Xing +4
Long-form live-streaming TTS requires context-dependent prosody and paragraph-level coherence. However, many existing instruction-based TTS systems use global or uniform conditions…
cs.SD2026
Multi-Dimensional Prosody Judgment For Live Streaming Speech Synthesis
Zifan Guan, Longyu Lu, Junan Zhang +3
Evaluating live streaming speech synthesis (TTS) requires assessing fine-grained, highly expressive prosody such as emotion, intonation, and energy which traditional MOS predictors…
cs.SD2026
WhispEar: A Bi-directional Framework for Scaling Whispered Speech Conversion via Pseudo-Parallel Whisper Generation
Zihao Fang, Yingda Shen, Zifan Guan +3
Whispered speech lacks vocal fold vibration and fundamental frequency, resulting in degraded acoustic cues and making whisper-to-normal (W2N) conversion challenging, especially wit…