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Tts adapts speaking style dynamically for smoother conversations

Interactive TTS: Dynamic Speaking Style Adaptation for Expressive Speech Synthesis

Abstract: Dynamic speaking style adaptation in multi-turn multimodal interaction remains a major challenge for text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Existing context-aware TTS (CTTS) methods typically map dialogue context to speech in an end-to-end manner. Such implicit modeling makes contextual style decisions difficult to supervise, while the entanglement of style, timbre, and content often leads to weak instruction-following and severe timbre drift across turns. To overcome these limitations, we propose Interactive TTS, a dynamic, style-adaptive framework for contextually appropriate and speaker-consistent speech generation. Interactive TTS decouples the process by explicitly modeling contextual style decisions as executable instructions. To bridge the gap between style decisions and speech generation, we introduce Iterative Rejection Sampling Fine-Tuning (Iterative RSFT) and Context-Aware Direct Preference Optimization (CADPO), which significantly enhance instruction-following and align the generated speech with conversational contexts. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Interactive TTS outperforms state-of-the-art models on VStyle and SpeechParaling-Bench. Demo is available at https://wjtian-wonderful.github.io/InteractiveTTS/

Tue 22 SeptSound
The gist
Text-to-speech (TTS) systems often struggle to change their speaking style naturally during multi-turn conversations. The authors introduce Interactive TTS, which separates style decisions from the speech generation process and makes style changes more controllable and clear. They also develop new techniques to better follow style instructions and keep the voice consistent across multiple turns. Their experiments show this method produces more natural and context-appropriate speech compared to previous models.
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