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Hauptverfasser: Kotoge, Rikuto, Sasaki, Yuichi
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Kotoge, Rikuto
Sasaki, Yuichi
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Sasaki, Yuichi
contents Aligning text-to-speech (TTS) system outputs with human feedback through preference optimization has been shown to effectively improve the robustness and naturalness of language model-based TTS models. Current approaches primarily require paired desirable and undesirable samples at the utterance level. However, such pairs are often limited in TTS output data, and utterance-level formulation prevents fine-grained token-level optimization needed for accurate pronunciation alignment. In this study, we propose TKTO that eliminates the need for paired data, enabling a more data-efficient training paradigm, and directly targets token-level units, automatically providing fine-grained alignment signals without token-level annotations. TKTO improves the challenging Japanese TTS accuracy by 39% and reduces CER by 54%, automatically assigning 12.8 times stronger reward to targeted tokens.
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spellingShingle Data-efficient Targeted Token-level Preference Optimization for LLM-based Text-to-Speech
Kotoge, Rikuto
Sasaki, Yuichi
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Sound
Aligning text-to-speech (TTS) system outputs with human feedback through preference optimization has been shown to effectively improve the robustness and naturalness of language model-based TTS models. Current approaches primarily require paired desirable and undesirable samples at the utterance level. However, such pairs are often limited in TTS output data, and utterance-level formulation prevents fine-grained token-level optimization needed for accurate pronunciation alignment. In this study, we propose TKTO that eliminates the need for paired data, enabling a more data-efficient training paradigm, and directly targets token-level units, automatically providing fine-grained alignment signals without token-level annotations. TKTO improves the challenging Japanese TTS accuracy by 39% and reduces CER by 54%, automatically assigning 12.8 times stronger reward to targeted tokens.
title Data-efficient Targeted Token-level Preference Optimization for LLM-based Text-to-Speech
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05799