Zero-Shot TTS With Enhanced Audio Prompts: Bsc Submission For The 2026 Wildspoof Challenge TTS Track

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Authors: Giraldo, Jose, Àlex Peiró Lilja, Rodolfo Zevallos, Cristina España-Bonet
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Abstract

We evaluate two non-autoregressive architectures, StyleTTS2 and F5-TTS, to address the spontaneous nature of in-the-wild speech. Our models utilize flexible duration modeling to improve prosodic naturalness. To handle acoustic noise, we implement a multi-stage enhancement pipeline using the Sidon model, which significantly outperforms standard Demucs in signal quality. Experimental results show that finetuning enhanced audios yields superior robustness, achieving up to 4.21 UTMOS and 3.47 DNSMOS. Furthermore, we analyze the impact of reference prompt quality and length on zero-shot synthesis performance, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach for realistic speech generation.

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
5 February 2026
Document type
Preprint