We introduce Seed-TTS, a family of large-scale autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) models capable of generating speech that is virtually indistinguishable from human speech. Seed-TTS serves as a foundation model for speech generation and excels in speech in-context learning, achieving performance in speaker similarity and naturalness that matches ground truth human speech in both objective and subjective evaluations. With fine-tuning, we achieve even higher subjective scores across these metrics. Seed-TTS offers superior controllability over various speech attributes such as emotion and is capable of generating highly expressive and diverse speech for speakers in the wild. Furthermore, we propose a self-distillation method for speech factorization, as well as a reinforcement learning approach to enhance model robustness, speaker similarity, and controllability. We additionally present a non-autoregressive (NAR) variant of the Seed-TTS model, named $\text{Seed-TTS}_\text{DiT}$, which utilizes a fully diffusion-based architecture. Unlike previous NAR-based TTS systems, $\text{Seed-TTS}_\text{DiT}$ does not depend on pre-estimated phoneme durations and performs speech generation through end-to-end processing. We demonstrate that this variant achieves comparable performance to the language model-based variant and showcase its effectiveness in speech editing. We encourage readers to listen to demos at \url{https://bytedancespeech.github.io/seedtts_tech_report}.
National Institute of Informatics（国立信息学研究所）；SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)（综合研究大学院大学）；Centre of Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学语音技术研究中心）
We introduce a novel speech synthesis system, called NAUTILUS, that can generate speech with a target voice either from a text input or a reference utterance of an arbitrary source speaker. By using a multi-speaker speech corpus to train all requisite encoders and decoders in the initial training stage, our system can clone unseen voices using untranscribed speech of target speakers on the basis of the backpropagation algorithm. Moreover, depending on the data circumstance of the target speaker, the cloning strategy can be adjusted to take advantage of additional data and modify the behaviors …
Disentangling the Prosody and Semantic Information with Pre-trained Model for In-Context Learning based Zero-Shot Voice Conversion
Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data（深圳大数据研究院）；Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen（香港中文大学（深圳））；National Institute of Informatics（信息学研究所）
Neural text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis can generate speech that is indistinguishable from natural speech. However, the synthetic speech often represents the average prosodic style of the database instead of having more versatile prosodic variation. Moreover, many models lack the ability to control the output prosody, which does not allow for different styles for the same text input. In this work, we train a non-autoregressive parallel neural TTS front-end model hierarchically conditioned on both coarse and fine-grained acoustic speech features to learn a latent prosody space with intuitive and …
