ArXiv Preprint - E3 TTS: Easy End-to-End Diffusion-based Text to Speech

In this episode we discuss E3 TTS: Easy End-to-End Diffusion-based Text to Speech by Yuan Gao, Nobuyuki Morioka, Yu Zhang, Nanxin Chen. The paper introduces Easy End-to-End Diffusion-based Text to Speech (E3 TTS), an innovative text-to-speech model that converts text to audio using a diffusion process without the need for intermediate representations or alignment information. E3 TTS functions through iterative refinement directly from plain text to audio waveform, supporting flexible latent structures that enable zero-shot tasks like editing. The model has been tested and offers high-fidelity audio generation, comparable to the performance of advanced neural TTS systems, with samples available online for evaluation.