SEAM expands TTS vocabularies without paired audio fine-tuning
The method matches or approaches baselines with up to four times less data across three languages and two architectures.
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AI music generator Suno can now create spoken audio with matching background music
Suno's new Speech feature generates spoken audio and matching background music as one track.
Generation Provenance Before Behavior Attribution: Auditing Synthetic Speech Research Objects
A provenance contract audits synthetic Japanese care-handoff speech before attributing behavior to training data.
DEFINE: Exemplar-Guided Accent Control for Zero-Shot TTS
DEFINE decouples speaker identity from accent in zero-shot TTS using separate audio exemplars, with a single inference-time guidance weight controlling accent strength.
ElevenLabs' new v4 speech model makes AI voices more expressive and consistent
ElevenLabs released Eleven v4 speech model with better audio-tag adherence, 90+ languages, and a 150ms Turbo variant for real-time voice agents.
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EmoRES-TTS: Residual-Enhanced Vector Steering for Emotional Speech Generation
EmoRES steers frozen text-to-speech models by splitting emotion vectors into shared and residual components, improving control without retraining.
Multi-Dimensional Prosody Judgment For Live Streaming Speech Synthesis
Researchers introduce Live-ProsodyJudge and D-LPJ, Gemini-distilled Qwen3-Omni judges that decouple multi-dimensional prosody scores for live streaming TTS evaluation.
StepAudio 3 Gen Technical Report
StepAudio 3 Gen unifies TTS, voice design, music, and sound effects via discrete autoregressive modeling over RVQ tokens.
Building and Evaluating Fixed-Voice Thai TTS from Synthetic Speech
Researchers distill a compact 82M-parameter Thai TTS from synthetic OmniVoice data, enabling on-device fixed-voice synthesis without reference audio.