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Character-Level Prosody Control for Mandarin Speech Synthesis:An Architecture-Preserving Approach
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This paper addresses fine-grained prosody control for large-language-model (LLM) based text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis of Mandarin Chinese, motivated by multimedia content-creation scenarios---film dubbing, audiobook production, and interactive voice interfaces---in which prosodic adjustments must be placed on specific characters rather than applied uniformly to whole utterances. We present a data-driven framework in which fine-grained prosodic markers (pitch, duration, energy, and pause) are automatically extracted from raw audio at scale and embedded into the text stream as out-of-vocabulary Unicode symbols. The LLM of an existing TTS system is then fine-tuned to interpret these markers while its architecture remains unchanged, yielding character-level temporal control that complements existing utterance-level style control. An optional text-LLM front-end can translate natural-language instructions into marker sequences. Experiments on 2.15M Mandarin utterances (5,858 hours) with CosyVoice2 as the backbone demonstrate reliable control of character duration, pitch, pause duration, and global speaking rate, with perceptual quality essentially preserved. A cross-tokenizer analysis further indicates that the ASR-optimized tokenizer of the backbone attenuates prosodic variation relative to reconstruction-oriented alternatives---an observation we report as hypothesis-generating evidence for prosody-sensitive system design.
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Character-Level Prosody Control for Mandarin Speech Synthesis:An Architecture-Preserving Approach
This paper addresses fine-grained prosody control for large-language-model (LLM) based text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis of Mandarin Chinese, motivated by multimedia content-creation scenarios---film dubbing, audiobook production, and interactive voice interfaces---in which prosodic adjustments must be placed on specific characters rather than applied uniformly to whole utterances. We present a data-driven framework in which fine-grained prosodic markers (pitch, duration, energy, and pause) are automatically extracted from raw audio at scale and embedded into the text stream as out-of-vocabulary Unicode symbols. The LLM of an existing TTS system is then fine-tuned to interpret these markers while its architecture remains unchanged, yielding character-level temporal control that complements existing utterance-level style control. An optional text-LLM front-end can translate natural-language instructions into marker sequences. Experiments on 2.15M Mandarin utterances (5,858 hours) with CosyVoice2 as the backbone demonstrate reliable control of character duration, pitch, pause duration, and global speaking rate, with perceptual quality essentially preserved. A cross-tokenizer analysis further indicates that the ASR-optimized tokenizer of the backbone attenuates prosodic variation relative to reconstruction-oriented alternatives---an observation we report as hypothesis-generating evidence for prosody-sensitive system design.
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