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VoXtream2: Full-stream TTS with dynamic speaking rate control
Nikita Torgashov, Gustav Eje Henter, Gabriel Skantze
Full-stream text-to-speech (TTS) for interactive systems must start speaking with minimal delay while remaining controllable as text arrives incrementally. We present VoXtream2, a…
When Voice Matters: Evidence of Gender Disparity in Positional Bias of SpeechLLMs
Shree Harsha Bokkahalli Satish, Gustav Eje Henter, Éva Székely
The rapid development of SpeechLLM-based conversational AI systems has created a need for robustly benchmarking these efforts, including aspects of fairness and bias. At present, s…
VoXtream: Full-Stream Text-to-Speech with Extremely Low Latency
Nikita Torgashov, Gustav Eje Henter, Gabriel Skantze
We present VoXtream, a fully autoregressive, zero-shot streaming text-to-speech (TTS) system for real-time use that begins speaking from the first word. VoXtream directly maps inco…
Wavebender GAN: An architecture for phonetically meaningful speech manipulation
Gustavo Teodoro Döhler Beck, Ulme Wennberg, Zofia Malisz +1
Deep learning has revolutionised synthetic speech quality. However, it has thus far delivered little value to the speech science community. The new methods do not meet the controll…
Analysing Shortcomings of Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis
Gustav Eje Henter, Simon King, Thomas Merritt +1
Output from statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) remains noticeably worse than natural speech recordings in terms of quality, naturalness, speaker similarity, and intelli…
Deep Encoder-Decoder Models for Unsupervised Learning of Controllable Speech Synthesis
Gustav Eje Henter, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Xin Wang +1
Generating versatile and appropriate synthetic speech requires control over the output expression separate from the spoken text. Important non-textual speech variation is seldom an…