Advocating for text input in multi-speaker text-to-speech systems
Gérard Bailly, Martin Lenglet, Olivier Perrotin, Esther Klabbers

Spell4TTS: Acoustically-informed spellings for improving text-to-speech pronunciations
Jason Fong, Hao Tang, Simon King

A Comparative Analysis of Pretrained Language Models for Text-to-Speech
Marcel Granero Moya, Penny Karanasou, Sri Karlapati, Bastian Schnell, Nicole Peinelt, Alexis Moinet, Thomas Drugman

Strategies in Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Speech Synthesis: Phone Mapping, Features Input, and Source Language Selection
Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra, Esther Klabbers

Importance of Human Factors in Text-To-Speech Evaluations
Lev Finkelstein, Joshua Camp, Rob Clark

Re-examining the quality dimensions of synthetic speech
Fritz Seebauer, Michael Kuhlmann, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Petra Wagner

Stuck in the MOS pit: A critical analysis of MOS test methodology in TTS evaluation
Ambika Kirkland, Shivam Mehta, Harm Lameris, Gustav Eje Henter, Eva Szekely, Joakim Gustafson

MooseNet: A Trainable Metric for Synthesized Speech with a PLDA Module
Ondřej Plátek, Ondrej Dusek

Cross-lingual transfer using phonological features for resource-scarce text-to-speech
Johannes Abraham Louw

Improving robustness of spontaneous speech synthesis with linguistic speech regularization and pseudo-filled-pause insertion
Yuta Matsunaga, Takaaki Saeki, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Hiroshi Saruwatari

Situating Speech Synthesis: Investigating Contextual Factors in the Evaluation of Conversational TTS
Harm Lameris, Ambika Kirkland, Joakim Gustafson, Eva Szekely

Synthesising turn-taking cues using natural conversational data
Johannah O'Mahony, Catherine Lai, Simon King

StarGAN-VC++: Towards Emotion Preserving Voice Conversion Using Deep Embeddings
Arnab Das, Suhita Ghosh, Tim Polzehl, Ingo Siegert, Sebastian Stober

PRVAE-VC: Non-Parallel Many-to-Many Voice Conversion with Perturbation-Resistant Variational Autoencoder
Kou Tanaka, Hirokazu Kameoka, Takuhiro Kaneko

Federated Learning for Human-in-the-Loop Many-to-Many Voice Conversion
Ryunosuke Hirai, Yuki Saito, Hiroshi Saruwatari

HiFi-VC: High Quality ASR-based Voice Conversion
Anton Kashkin, Ivan Karpukhin, Svyatoslav Shishkin

EmoSpeech: guiding FastSpeech2 towards Emotional Text to Speech
Daria Diatlova, Vitalii Shutov

Controllable Emphasis with zero data for text-to-speech
Arnaud Joly, Marco Nicolis, Ekaterina Peterova, Alessandro Lombardi, Ammar Abbas, Arent van Korlaar, Aman Hussain, Parul Sharma, Alexis Moinet, Mateusz Lajszczak, Penny Karanasou, Antonio Bonafonte, Thomas Drugman, Elena Sokolova

Local Style Tokens: Fine-Grained Prosodic Representations For TTS Expressive Control
Martin Lenglet, Olivier Perrotin, Gérard Bailly

Investigating the Utility of Surprisal from Large Language Models for Speech Synthesis Prosody
Sofoklis Kakouros, Juraj Šimko, Martti Vainio, Antti Suni

An analysis on the effects of speaker embedding choice in non auto-regressive TTS
Adriana Stan, Johannah O'Mahony

Audiobook synthesis with long-form neural text-to-speech
Weicheng Zhang, Cheng-Chieh Yeh, Will Beckman, Tuomo Raitio, Ramya Rasipuram, Ladan Golipour, David Winarsky

Improving the quality of neural TTS using long-form content and multi-speaker multi-style modeling
Tuomo Raitio, Javier Latorre, Andrea Davis, Tuuli Morrill, Ladan Golipour

Diff-TTSG: Denoising probabilistic integrated speech and gesture synthesis
Shivam Mehta, Siyang Wang, Simon Alexanderson, Jonas Beskow, Eva Szekely, Gustav Eje Henter

Diffusion Transformer for Adaptive Text-to-Speech
Haolin Chen, Philip N. Garner

On the Use of Self-Supervised Speech Representations in Spontaneous Speech Synthesis
Siyang Wang, Gustav Eje Henter, Joakim Gustafson, Eva Szekely

Voice Cloning: Training Speaker Selection with Limited Multi-Speaker Corpus
David Guennec, Lily Wadoux, Aghilas Sini, Nelly Barbot, Damien Lolive

Adaptive Duration Modification of Speech using Masked Convolutional Networks and Open-Loop Time Warping
Ravi Shankar, Archana Venkataraman

Learning Multilingual Expressive Speech Representation for Prosody Prediction without Parallel Data
Jarod Duret, Yannick Estève, Titouan Parcollet

Subjective Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Models: Comparing Absolute Category Rating and Ranking by Elimination Tests
Kishor Kayyar, Christian Dittmar, Nicola Pia, Emanuel Habets

Better Replacement for TTS Naturalness Evaluation
Sajad Shirali-Shahreza, Gerald Penn

The Impact of Pause-Internal Phonetic Particles on Recall in Synthesized Lectures
Mikey Elmers, Eva Szekely

SPTK4: An Open-Source Software Toolkit for Speech Signal Processing
Takenori Yoshimura, Takato Fujimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda

FiPPiE: A Computationally Efficient Differentiable method for Estimating Fundamental Frequency From Spectrograms
Lev Finkelstein, Chun-an Chan, Vincent Wan, Heiga Zen, Rob Clark

Lightweight End-to-end Text-to-speech Synthesis for low resource on-device applications
Biel Tura Vecino, Adam Gabrys, Daniel Matwicki, Andrzej Pomirski, Tom Iddon, Marius Cotescu, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

Data Augmentation Methods on Ultrasound Tongue Images for Articulation-to-Speech Synthesis
Ibrahim Ibrahimov, Gabor Gosztolya, Tamas Gabor Csapo

Universal Approach to Multilingual Multispeaker Child Speech SynthesisUniversal Approach to Multilingual Multispeaker Child Speech Synthesis
Shaimaa Alwaisi, Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi, Géza Németh

Towards Speaker-Independent Voice Conversion for Improving Dysarthric Speech Intelligibility
Seraphina Fong, Marco Matassoni, Gianluca Esposito, Alessio Brutti

Exploring the multidimensional representation of individual speech acoustic parameters extracted by deep unsupervised models
Maxime Jacquelin, Maeva Garnier, Laurent Girin, Rémy Vincent, Olivier Perrotin

SarcasticSpeech: Speech Synthesis for Sarcasm in Low-Resource Scenarios
Zhu Li, Xiyuan Gao, Shekhar Nayak, Matt Coler

Recovering Discrete Prosody Inputs via Invert-Classify
Nicholas Sanders, Korin Richmond

Using a Large Language Model to Control Speaking Style for Expressive TTS
Atli Thor Sigurgeirsson, Simon King

NaijaTTS: A pitch-controllable TTS model for Nigerian Pidgin
Emmett Strickland, Dana Aubakirova, Dorin Doncenco, Diego Torres, Marc Evrard