KABURI-TTS: Phoneme-Keyed Activity-conditioned Bi-channel Utterance Rendering for Interaction
Realizing full-duplex spoken dialogue requires large amounts of two-channel, one-speaker-per-channel conversational speech data. Although conversational text-to-speech (TTS) engines have been developed, they are not necessarily robust to two-party simultaneous phenomena such as backchannels, interruptions, and overlaps that occur while the interlocutor is speaking. In this work, aiming at conversational speech synthesis that reproduces human-like overlap, we propose KABURI-TTS. KABURI-TTS takes a per-speaker phoneme raster as input and renders the speech of the two speakers on separate channels, conditioned on the per-frame phonemes and the voice activity derived from them. Because the ph...
| Authors | Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tetsuji Ogawa |
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| Primary category | cs.SD |
| Published | 7 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 7 September 2026 |
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