2026
MELA-TTS: JOINT TRANSFORMER-DIFFUSION MODEL WITH REPRESENTATION ALIGNMENT FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS
ICASSP 2026poster
This work introduces MELA-TTS, a novel joint transformer-diffusion framework for end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis. By autoregressively generating continuous mel-spectrogram frames from linguistic and speaker conditions, our architecture eliminates the need for speech tokenization and multi-stage…