2 papers
eess.AS2026
InstCharVoice: Grounding Natural-Language Instructions for Character-Level Control in Text-to-Speech
Sihang Nie, Xueru Li, Xiaofen Xing +4
Instruction-based text-to-speech (ITTS) systems enable natural-language control of expressive speech generation, but often offer limited transparency and fine-grained control over…
eess.AS2026
WordVoice: Explicit and Decoupled Multi-Dimensional Word-Level Control for LLM-Based TTS
Sihang Nie, Jinxin Ji, Xiaofen Xing +4
While recent Large Language Model (LLM)-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have achieved remarkable naturalness, they predominantly rely on implicit end-to-end generation paradigms…