Synthetic triplet construction unlocks scalable direction-following speech synthesis
Researchers have cracked a fundamental bottleneck in expressive speech synthesis: training systems to follow directorial cues without paired data. The work uses an impression-controllable TTS model to synthetically generate reference-direction-output triplets, then leverages an LLM to articulate the stylistic differences in natural language. This approach sidesteps the expensive manual annotation problem that has constrained direction-following TTS to niche applications. The technique opens a path toward production-grade systems where voice talent can iterate on delivery at scale, reshaping workflows in audiobook production, game localization, and synthetic media.
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