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X-Voice: Enabling Everyone to Speak 30 Languages via Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning

arXiv 2605.05611 ↗First posted 7 May 2026cs.SD cs.AI eess.AScited by 4

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Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we present X-Voice, a 0.4B multilingual zero-shot voice cloning model that clones arbitrary voices and enables everyone to speak 30 languages. X-Voice is trained on a 420K-hour multilingual corpus using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as a unified representation. To eliminate the reliance on prompt text without complex preprocessing like forced alignment, we design a two-stage training paradigm. In Stage 1, we establish X-Voices1 through standard conditional flow-matching training and use it to synthesize 10K hours of speaker-consistent segments as audio prompts. In Stage 2, we fine-tune on these audio pairs with prompt text masked to derive X-Voices2, which enables zero-shot voice cloning without requiring transcripts of audio prompts. Architecturally, we extend F5-TTS by implementing a dual-level injection of language identifiers and decoupling and scheduling of Classifier-Free Guidance to facilitate multilingual speech synthesis. Subjective and objective evaluation results demonstrate that X-Voice outperforms existing flow-matching based multilingual systems like LEMAS-TTS and achieves zero-shot cross-lingual cloning capabilities comparable to billion-scale models such as Qwen3-TTS. To facilitate research transparency and community advancement, we open-source all related resources.

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  3. 2026Tacit-TTS: From Autoregressive Decoding to Masked Prediction for Efficient Transcript-Free Voice Cloning
  4. 2026PFluxTTS: Hybrid Flow-Matching TTS with Robust Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning and Inference-Time Model Fusion
  5. 2026Adding Voice Cloning to Text-to-Audio-Video Models with a Single Zero-Initialised Layer
  6. 2025EZ-VC: Easy Zero-shot Any-to-Any Voice Conversion
  7. 2025LatinX: Aligning a Multilingual TTS Model with Direct Preference Optimization
  8. 2026MM-Sonate: Multimodal Controllable Audio-Video Generation with Zero-Shot Voice Cloning