VoiceSculptor: Your Voice, Designed By You
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Abstract (arXiv)
Despite rapid progress in text-to-speech (TTS), open-source systems still lack truly instruction-following, fine-grained control over core speech attributes (e.g., pitch, speaking rate, age, emotion, and style). We present VoiceSculptor, an open-source unified system that bridges this gap by integrating instruction-based voice design and high-fidelity voice cloning in a single framework. It generates controllable speaker timbre directly from natural-language descriptions, supports iterative refinement via Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and provides attribute-level edits across multiple dimensions. The designed voice is then rendered into a prompt waveform and fed into a cloning model to enable high-fidelity timbre transfer for downstream speech synthesis. VoiceSculptor achieves open-source state-of-the-art (SOTA) on InstructTTSEval-Zh, and is fully open-sourced, including code and pretrained models, to advance reproducible instruction-controlled TTS research.
Key facts. Cited by 10 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 15 Jan 2026.
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- 2026Qwen3-TTS Technical Reportcited by 118
- 2026OmniVoice: Towards Omnilingual Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Diffusion Language Modelscited by 25
- 2026VoXtream2: Full-stream TTS with dynamic speaking rate controlcited by 3
- 2026MOSS-VoiceGenerator: Create Realistic Voices with Natural Language Descriptionscited by 3
- 2026FireRedAudio: A General-Purpose Audio Language Model with Decoupled Continuous Representations for Understanding and Generationcited by 2
- 2026AuK Technical Report: An Open-Source Foundational Model for Speech Generation and Editingcited by 1
- 2026EmoInstruct-TTS: Dual-Path Instruction-Guided Emotional Speech Synthesiscited by 0
- 2026COT-TTS: Audio Context-Aware Text-to-Speech with Chain-of-Thought Reasoningcited by 0
- 2026JoyAI-Voice 2.0: A Full-Continuous Autoregressive Speech Generation Model with Semantic-Acoustic Joint Representationcited by 0
- 2026VoTSpeech: Decoupling Voice Design from Speech Generation in Instruction-Following TTScited by 0
- 2026VoTSpeech: Decoupling Voice Design from Speech Generation in Instruction-Following TTS10 Oct 2026
- 2026JoyAI-Voice 2.0: A Full-Continuous Autoregressive Speech Generation Model with Semantic-Acoustic Joint Representation29 Sep 2026
- 2026COT-TTS: Audio Context-Aware Text-to-Speech with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning19 Sep 2026
- 2026AuK Technical Report: An Open-Source Foundational Model for Speech Generation and Editing8 Sep 2026
- 2026FireRedAudio: A General-Purpose Audio Language Model with Decoupled Continuous Representations for Understanding and Generation25 Aug 2026
- 2026EmoInstruct-TTS: Dual-Path Instruction-Guided Emotional Speech Synthesis8 Jun 2026
- 2026OmniVoice: Towards Omnilingual Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Diffusion Language Models1 Apr 2026
- 2026MOSS-VoiceGenerator: Create Realistic Voices with Natural Language Descriptions30 Mar 2026
- 2026VoXtream2: Full-stream TTS with dynamic speaking rate control13 Mar 2026
- 2026Qwen3-TTS Technical Report22 Jan 2026
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