3 papers
cs.CL2025
The State Of TTS: A Case Study with Human Fooling Rates
Praveen Srinivasa Varadhan, Sherry Thomas, Sai Teja M. S. +2
While subjective evaluations in recent years indicate rapid progress in TTS, can current TTS systems truly pass a human deception test in a Turing-like evaluation? We introduce Hum…
cs.CL2025
RASMALAI: Resources for Adaptive Speech Modeling in Indian Languages with Accents and Intonations
Ashwin Sankar, Yoach Lacombe, Sherry Thomas +3
We introduce RASMALAI, a large-scale speech dataset with rich text descriptions, designed to advance controllable and expressive text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis for 23 Indian langua…
cs.CL2024
IndicVoices-R: Unlocking a Massive Multilingual Multi-speaker Speech Corpus for Scaling Indian TTS
Ashwin Sankar, Srija Anand, Praveen Srinivasa Varadhan +7
Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis show that large-scale models trained with extensive web data produce highly natural-sounding output. However, such data is sca…