cs.SD · 2026-05-27 · No. 10

Sound, 2026-05-27.

2 new papers in cs.SD. Titles, authors, abstracts. Links to arXiv. Want this in your inbox every morning? Subscribe →

01 — The papers

2 entries
  1. 01

    PilotTTS: A Disciplined Modular Recipe for Competitive Speech Synthesis

    Bowen Li, Shaotong Guo, Zhen Wang, Yang Xiang, Mingli Jin, Yihang Lin, Jiahui Zhao, Weibo Xiong, Dongrui Li, Keming...

    cs.SD · cs.AI

    Building state-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) systems typically demands millions of hours of proprietary data and complex multi-stage architectures, creating substantial barriers for resource-constrained research teams. In this report, we present PilotTTS, a lightweight autoregressive TTS system that achieves competitive performance through minimalist architecture and rigorous data engineering. PilotTTS is trained on only 200K hours of data...

    arxiv.org/abs/2605.27258 · PDF

  2. 02

    An investigation of AI integration in sound designer workflows and experiences

    Nelly Garcia, Joshua Reiss

    cs.SD · cs.AI · cs.CY

    Artificial intelligence is increasingly being integrated into professional audio production workflows, yet a gap persists between the tools developers produce and the requirements of practising sound designers. This paper investigates this gap through a mixed-methods study comprising a survey of 76 practitioners and follow-up semi-structured interviews with 20 industry professionals. Results were analysed using descriptive statistical...

    arxiv.org/abs/2605.27174 · PDF

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