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GLM-TTS is an advanced text-to-speech synthesis system built on large language model technologies that focuses on producing high-quality, expressive, and controllable spoken output, including features like emotion modulation and zero-shot voice cloning. It uses a two-stage architecture where a generative LLM first converts text into intermediate speech token sequences and then a Flow-based neural model converts those tokens into natural audio waveforms, enabling rich prosody and voice character even for unseen speakers. The system introduces a multi-reward reinforcement learning framework that jointly optimizes for voice similarity, emotional expressiveness, pronunciation, and intelligibility, yielding output that can rival commercial options in naturalness and expressiveness. ...

...The project aims to be for speech what Stable Diffusion is for images: powerful, hackable, and safe for commercial use, with code under Apache-2.0/MIT and models trained only on properly licensed data. Its architecture follows a token-based, multi-stage pipeline inspired by AudioLM and SPEAR-TTS: Whisper is used to produce semantic tokens, EnCodec compresses the waveform into acoustic tokens, and Vocos reconstructs high-fidelity audio from those tokens. The repository includes notebooks and scripts for inference, long-form synthesis, and finetuning, as well as pre-trained models and converted datasets hosted on Hugging Face. ...

MARS5-TTS is CAMB.AI’s open-source English speech model designed for high-quality text-to-speech and voice emulation. It uses a two-stage architecture that combines an autoregressive (AR) model with a non-autoregressive (NAR) model, giving it both expressiveness and speed. The model is built to handle prosodically challenging content such as sports commentary, anime dialogue, and other high-energy or highly varied speech patterns with realistic rhythm and intonation.

...It extends the original StyleTTS idea by introducing a style diffusion model that can sample rich, realistic speaking styles conditioned on reference speech, allowing highly expressive and diverse prosody. The architecture uses a two-stage training process and leverages an auxiliary speech language model to guide generation toward more natural and coherent utterances. StyleTTS2 supports both single-speaker and multi-speaker configurations, with the ability to sample or transfer styles from reference audio, making it powerful for expressive TTS and character voices. ...

...Specifically, we train a neural codec language model (called VALL-E) using discrete codes derived from an off-the-shelf neural audio codec model, and regard TTS as a conditional language modeling task rather than continuous signal regression as in previous work. During the pre-training stage, we scale up the TTS training data to 60K hours of English speech which is hundreds of times larger than existing systems. VALL-E emerges in-context learning capabilities and can be used to synthesize high-quality personalized speech with only a 3-second enrolled recording of an unseen speaker as an acoustic prompt. Experiment results show that VALL-E significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art zero-shot TTS system in terms of speech naturalness and speaker similarity. ...

VITS is a foundational research implementation of “VITS: Conditional Variational Autoencoder with Adversarial Learning for End-to-End Text-to-Speech,” a well-known neural TTS architecture. Unlike traditional two-stage systems that separately train an acoustic model and a vocoder, VITS trains an end-to-end model that maps text directly to waveform using a conditional variational autoencoder combined with normalizing flows and adversarial training. This architecture enables parallel generation (fast inference) while achieving speech quality that rivals or surpasses many two-stage systems. ...

DC-TTS is a TensorFlow implementation of the DC-TTS architecture, a fully convolutional text-to-speech system designed to be efficiently trainable while producing natural speech. It follows the “Efficiently Trainable Text-to-Speech System Based on Deep Convolutional Networks with Guided Attention” paper, but the author adapts and extends the design to make it practical for real experiments. The model is split into two networks: Text2Mel, which maps text to mel-spectrograms, and SSRN...