VoiceSculptor: Your Voice, Designed By You

Read full text
Authors: Jiaxi Hu, Huakang Chen, Linhan Ma, Dake Guo, Qirui Zhan, Wenhao Li, Haoyu Zhang, Kangxiang Xia, Ziyu Zhang, Wenjie Tian, Chengyou Wang, Jinrui Liang
+10 more Shuhan Guo, Zihang Yang, Bengu Wu, Binbin Zhang, Pengcheng Zhu, Pengyuan Xie, Chuan Xie, Qiang Zhang, Jie Liu, Lei Xie
Cited by: 0

Abstract

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.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Speech Recognition and Synthesis Speech and Audio Processing Voice and Speech Disorders

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
15 January 2026
Document type
Preprint