# EDM-TTS: Efficient Dual-Stage Masked Modeling for Alignment-Free Text-to-Speech Synthesis

## Zero-Shot TTS examples sampled randomly from the evaluation data of Table 3.

Text input: If you thought I lived in New York, why in the world didn't you come and see me ? the lady inquired.

Speaker Prompt | Ours | HierSpeech++ | WhisperSpeech | XTTSv2 | StyleTTS2
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Text input: However loudly outward circumstances might oppose this, he now felt, with a certainty which surprised him, that this work was not his own.

Speaker Prompt | Ours | HierSpeech++ | WhisperSpeech | XTTSv2 | StyleTTS2
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Text input: The railroads had not reached Jackson county, and wild game was plentiful on my father's farm on Big Creek near Lee's Summit.

Speaker Prompt | Ours | HierSpeech++ | WhisperSpeech | XTTSv2 | StyleTTS2
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Text input: Then he reappeared, creeping along the earth, from which his dress was hardly distinguishable, directly in the rear of his intended captive.

Speaker Prompt | Ours | HierSpeech++ | WhisperSpeech | XTTSv2 | StyleTTS2
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## Text input: Voice Conversion examples sampled randomly from the evaluation data of Table 2.

Source Utterance | Target Speaker | Ours | HierSpeech++ | DiffHierVC | SoundStorm
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## Ablation Study (Reconstruction)

### Injection Conformer, examples randomly sampled from evaluation data of Table 5.

Speaker Prompt | Ground Truth | no-inj | inj1 | inj2 | inj3 | noskip | Ours (Iters=8) | Iters=4 | Iters=2 | Iters=1
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## Ablation Study (Resynthesis)

### Text-to-Semantic, examples randomly sampled from evaluation data of Table 6.

Speaker Prompt | Ground Truth | GT Length | 0.7x GTLength | 1.3x GT Length | Ours (Iters=16, Pred Length) | Itrs=8 | Iters=4
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