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New method reveals how style instructions shape text-to-speech output

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Researchers have developed a new method to understand how natural language instructions influence the output of style-captioned text-to-speech (TTS) systems. By adapting the DAAM framework to speech diffusion models, the study analyzes how specific words in style captions shape the generated waveforms. The findings indicate that style tokens have a lower temporal variance than content tokens and that their influence peaks in the early stages of generation and deeper layers of the model. AI

IMPACT Provides a deeper understanding of controllability in expressive TTS systems, potentially leading to improved voice generation.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing a new methodology for analyzing TTS models.

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New method reveals how style instructions shape text-to-speech output

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Nityanand Mathur, Hamees Sayed, Wasim Madha, Apoorv Singh, Sameer Khurana, Akshat Mandloi, Sudarshan Kamath ·

    How Do Instructions Shape Speech? Cross-Attention Attribution for Style-Captioned Text-to-Speech

    arXiv:2606.20532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Style-captioned text-to-speech systems use natural language to control voice characteristics, but how individual words influence acoustic output remains unclear. Understanding this is critical for diagnosing failure modes and improv…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Sudarshan Kamath ·

    How Do Instructions Shape Speech? Cross-Attention Attribution for Style-Captioned Text-to-Speech

    Style-captioned text-to-speech systems use natural language to control voice characteristics, but how individual words influence acoustic output remains unclear. Understanding this is critical for diagnosing failure modes and improving controllability in expressive TTS. We propos…

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