Text-To-Speech Synthesis

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

6 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 6 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

18 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

2 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 104 papers with code (332 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• FastSpeech 2: Fast and High-Quality End-to-End Text to Speech
  8 Jun 2020 37 repositories listed Syntology ran 73 of 119 samples · 46 unverified · 33 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we propose FastSpeech 2, which addresses the issues in FastSpeech and better solves the one-to-many mapping problem in TTS by 1) directly training the model with ground-truth target instead of the…
• Tacotron: Towards End-to-End Speech Synthesis
  29 Mar 2017 30 repositories listed Syntology ran 7 of 25 samples · 18 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  A text-to-speech synthesis system typically consists of multiple stages, such as a text analysis frontend, an acoustic model and an audio synthesis module.
• FastSpeech: Fast, Robust and Controllable Text to Speech
  22 May 2019 22 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 11 samples · 8 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  In this work, we propose a novel feed-forward network based on Transformer to generate mel-spectrogram in parallel for TTS.
• Efficiently Trainable Text-to-Speech System Based on Deep Convolutional Networks with Guided Attention
  24 Oct 2017 22 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 28 samples · 27 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  This paper describes a novel text-to-speech (TTS) technique based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN), without use of any recurrent units.
• Efficient Neural Audio Synthesis
  23 Feb 2018 16 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  The small number of weights in a Sparse WaveRNN makes it possible to sample high-fidelity audio on a mobile CPU in real time.
• Parallel WaveGAN: A fast waveform generation model based on generative adversarial networks with multi-resolution spectrogram
  25 Oct 2019 12 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 20 samples · 20 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  We propose Parallel WaveGAN, a distillation-free, fast, and small-footprint waveform generation method using a generative adversarial network.
• FastSpeech: Fast,Robustand Controllable Text-to-Speech
  22 May 2019 11 repositories listed
  Compared with traditional concatenative and statistical parametric approaches, neural network based end-to-end models suffer from slow inference speed, and the synthesized speech is usually not robust (i.
• Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis
  12 Jun 2018 11 repositories listed
  Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time
• Style Tokens: Unsupervised Style Modeling, Control and Transfer in End-to-End Speech Synthesis
  23 Mar 2018 11 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 21 samples · 15 unverified · 7 pointer-only (licence)
  In this work, we propose "global style tokens" (GSTs), a bank of embeddings that are jointly trained within Tacotron, a state-of-the-art end-to-end speech synthesis system.
• DiffSinger: Singing Voice Synthesis via Shallow Diffusion Mechanism
  6 May 2021 10 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 7 samples · 3 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  Singing voice synthesis (SVS) systems are built to synthesize high-quality and expressive singing voice, in which the acoustic model generates the acoustic features (e.
• Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers
  5 Jan 2023 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 6 samples · 0 unverified
  In addition, we find Vall-E could preserve the speaker's emotion and acoustic environment of the acoustic prompt in synthesis.
• WaveGrad: Estimating Gradients for Waveform Generation
  2 Sep 2020 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 3 samples · 2 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  This paper introduces WaveGrad, a conditional model for waveform generation which estimates gradients of the data density.
• Grad-TTS: A Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Text-to-Speech
  13 May 2021 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 9 of 18 samples · 9 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Recently, denoising diffusion probabilistic models and generative score matching have shown high potential in modelling complex data distributions while stochastic calculus has provided a unified point of view on these…
• Glow-TTS: A Generative Flow for Text-to-Speech via Monotonic Alignment Search
  22 May 2020 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 14 samples · 11 unverified
  By leveraging the properties of flows, MAS searches for the most probable monotonic alignment between text and the latent representation of speech.
• Neural Speech Synthesis with Transformer Network
  19 Sep 2018 6 repositories listed
  Although end-to-end neural text-to-speech (TTS) methods (such as Tacotron2) are proposed and achieve state-of-the-art performance, they still suffer from two problems: 1) low efficiency during training and inference; 2)…
• MelNet: A Generative Model for Audio in the Frequency Domain
  4 Jun 2019 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 4 samples · 0 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  Capturing high-level structure in audio waveforms is challenging because a single second of audio spans tens of thousands of timesteps.
• Exploring Transfer Learning for Low Resource Emotional TTS
  14 Jan 2019 5 repositories listed
  During the last few years, spoken language technologies have known a big improvement thanks to Deep Learning.
• ProDiff: Progressive Fast Diffusion Model For High-Quality Text-to-Speech
  13 Jul 2022 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 6 samples · 4 unverified
  Through the preliminary study on diffusion model parameterization, we find that previous gradient-based TTS models require hundreds or thousands of iterations to guarantee high sample quality, which poses a challenge…
• PortaSpeech: Portable and High-Quality Generative Text-to-Speech
  30 Sep 2021 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 12 samples · 6 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Non-autoregressive text-to-speech (NAR-TTS) models such as FastSpeech 2 and Glow-TTS can synthesize high-quality speech from the given text in parallel.
• Tools and resources for Romanian text-to-speech and speech-to-text applications
  15 Feb 2018 4 repositories listed
  In this paper we introduce a set of resources and tools aimed at providing support for natural language processing, text-to-speech synthesis and speech recognition for Romanian.
• Enhancing Suno's Bark Text-to-Speech Model: Addressing Limitations Through Meta's Encodec and Pre-Trained Hubert
  18 Apr 2023 3 repositories listed
  Keywords: Bark, ai voice cloning, Suno, text-to-speech, artificial intelligence, audio generation, Meta's encodec, audio codebooks, semantic tokens, HuBert, transformer-based model, multilingual speech, wav2vec, linear…
• Preparing an Endangered Language for the Digital Age: The Case of Judeo-Spanish
  31 May 2022 3 repositories listed
  We develop machine translation and speech synthesis systems to complement the efforts of revitalizing Judeo-Spanish, the exiled language of Sephardic Jews, which survived for centuries, but now faces the threat of…
• NaturalSpeech: End-to-End Text to Speech Synthesis with Human-Level Quality
  9 May 2022 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified
  In this paper, we answer these questions by first defining the human-level quality based on the statistical significance of subjective measure and introducing appropriate guidelines to judge it, and then developing a…
• YourTTS: Towards Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker TTS and Zero-Shot Voice Conversion for everyone
  4 Dec 2021 3 repositories listed
  YourTTS brings the power of a multilingual approach to the task of zero-shot multi-speaker TTS.
• WaveGrad 2: Iterative Refinement for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
  17 Jun 2021 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified
  The model takes an input phoneme sequence, and through an iterative refinement process, generates an audio waveform.
• RyanSpeech: A Corpus for Conversational Text-to-Speech Synthesis
  15 Jun 2021 3 repositories listed
  In order to meet the need for a high quality, publicly available male speech corpus within the field of speech recognition, we have designed and created RyanSpeech which contains textual materials from real-world…
• Flowtron: an Autoregressive Flow-based Generative Network for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
  12 May 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 19 samples · 15 unverified
  In this paper we propose Flowtron: an autoregressive flow-based generative network for text-to-speech synthesis with control over speech variation and style transfer.
• Back Transcription as a Method for Evaluating Robustness of Natural Language Understanding Models to Speech Recognition Errors
  25 Oct 2023 2 repositories listed
  This paper proposes a method for investigating the impact of speech recognition errors on the performance of natural language understanding models.
• LauraGPT: Listen, Attend, Understand, and Regenerate Audio with GPT
  7 Oct 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified
  Previous mainstream audio-and-text LLMs use discrete audio tokens to represent both input and output audio; however, they suffer from performance degradation on tasks such as automatic speech recognition, speech-to-text…
• Towards Building Text-To-Speech Systems for the Next Billion Users
  17 Nov 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified
  We open-source all models on the Bhashini platform.

Syntology lines on 20 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.