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arxiv: 2605.30993 · v1 · pith:UJP54NM7new · submitted 2026-05-29 · 📡 eess.AS

SwanVoice: Expressive Long-Form Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis for Both Monologue and Dialogue

Ruiqi Li , Yu Zhang , Changhao Pan , Ke Lei , Xiang Yin , Cheng Yang This is my paper

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keywords zero-shot TTSdialogue synthesisexpressive speechmulti-speaker TTSflow-matchinglong-form speechspeaker-turn conditioningDiffusionNFT
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SwanVoice generates expressive long-form speech for both monologues and multi-speaker dialogues with higher richness and hierarchy than baselines.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces SwanVoice as a zero-shot TTS model that directly handles long-form expressive synthesis for one to four speakers in both monologue and dialogue formats. It targets the common workaround of generating each turn separately with a monologue model and then stitching the results, which raises inference cost while breaking acoustic consistency, conversational coherence, and affective continuity. The model is built on new monologue and dialogue corpora extracted from in-the-wild audio, then trained through staged data mixing followed by post-training with phone-level and speaker-similarity rewards. Evaluation on the authors' SwanBench-Speech shows gains in richness and hierarchy scores over open-source baselines in both settings, though content accuracy is identified as the remaining bottleneck. If the approach holds, it would support more natural multi-speaker audio generation without the stitching step.

Core claim

SwanVoice combines a 25 Hz VAE, raw-text conditioning that includes pause-aware symbols and pinyin substitution, and a flow-matching DiT equipped with speaker-turn conditioning. Training begins with monologue speech, advances through mixed and real dialogue data, and concludes with DiffusionNFT post-training that applies phone-level and speaker-similarity rewards. On the SwanBench-Speech benchmark this produces higher richness and hierarchy scores than all evaluated open-source baselines across both monologue and dialogue tasks.

What carries the argument

The flow-matching DiT with speaker-turn conditioning together with DiffusionNFT post-training rewards, which jointly support controllable speaker switching while preserving expressive coherence.

If this is right

  • Multi-speaker dialogue can be synthesized in a single forward pass without separate turn generation and stitching.
  • Acoustic consistency and affective continuity are maintained across speaker turns within the same model.
  • The same architecture preserves monologue quality while extending to dialogue settings.
  • Zero-shot inference works for variable numbers of speakers from one to four.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The pause-aware alignment and pinyin substitution steps in data preparation could be reused to improve other long-form TTS pipelines.
  • If content accuracy improves, the model could serve as a drop-in component for generating consistent audio in multi-agent simulation environments.
  • The staged training progression from monologue to dialogue data offers a template for adding conversational capabilities to existing single-speaker TTS systems.

Load-bearing premise

The SwanBench-Speech benchmark and its richness and hierarchy metrics accurately capture expressive coherence and affective continuity across speaker turns rather than reflecting artifacts from data construction or the reward signals.

What would settle it

An independent listening test in which listeners rate affective continuity and perceived richness on matched dialogue samples from SwanVoice and the strongest baseline, showing no statistically significant preference for SwanVoice, would undermine the central performance claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.30993 by Changhao Pan, Cheng Yang, Ke Lei, Ruiqi Li, Xiang Yin, Yu Zhang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Hierarchical data processing pipeline The pipeline first applies speech enhancement and speaker diarization to raw audio. Based on speaker order, diarized segments are split into a monologue pool and a dialogue pool, and the two pools then go through ASR, punctuation refinement, and quality filtering separately. The output is two training datasets, one for monologue speech and one for dialogue conversation… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overall training and inference procedure of SwanVoice. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of Swan Forced Aligner. B Method B.1 Problem Setup Let x denote an input speech waveform and let y = (y1, . . . , yN ) denote its transcript. Our goal is to estimate the temporal boundary of each word in the transcript, i.e., a sequence of word-level intervals {(si , ei)} M i=1, where M is the number of aligned lexical words, and si and ei denote, respectively, the start and end times of the i-th … view at source ↗
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Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) has improved substantially for single-speaker synthesis, yet expressive long-form multi-speaker dialogue remains difficult. A common workaround is to synthesize each turn with a monologue TTS model and stitch the outputs together. This adds inference cost and often breaks acoustic consistency, conversational coherence, and affective continuity across turns. Recent dialogue TTS systems have begun to address this setting, but they still struggle to keep expressive coherence, controllable speaker switching, and monologue quality at the same time. We present SwanData-Speech and SwanVoice. SwanData-Speech builds monologue and dialogue corpora from in-the-wild audio, using Swan Forced Aligner for pause-aware word-level alignment and RobustMegaTTS3 for pronunciation-hard cases. Built on these data, SwanVoice is a zero-shot TTS model for 1--4 speakers, combining a 25 Hz VAE, raw-text conditioning with pause-aware symbols and pinyin substitution, and a flow-matching DiT with speaker-turn conditioning. Training starts from monologue speech, moves through mixed and real dialogue data, and then uses DiffusionNFT post-training with phone-level and speaker-similarity rewards. On SwanBench-Speech, SwanVoice obtains higher richness and hierarchy scores than all evaluated open-source baselines in both monologue and dialogue settings, while content accuracy remains the main limitation. Audio demos are available at https://swanaigc.github.io//#swanvoice.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces SwanData-Speech, a corpus of monologue and dialogue speech extracted from in-the-wild audio via Swan Forced Aligner and RobustMegaTTS3, and SwanVoice, a zero-shot TTS system for 1-4 speakers that combines a 25 Hz VAE, raw-text conditioning with pause symbols and pinyin, and a flow-matching DiT with speaker-turn conditioning. Training proceeds via a monologue-to-mixed-to-dialogue curriculum followed by DiffusionNFT post-training using phone-level and speaker-similarity rewards. The central empirical claim is that SwanVoice obtains higher richness and hierarchy scores than open-source baselines on the custom SwanBench-Speech benchmark in both monologue and dialogue settings, while content accuracy remains the primary limitation.

Significance. If the richness and hierarchy metrics validly capture expressive coherence and affective continuity across turns, the curriculum-plus-reward approach would constitute a concrete advance over stitching-based dialogue synthesis. The data-construction pipeline and speaker-turn conditioning are technically interesting strengths. However, the absence of disclosed validation for the benchmark and metrics substantially reduces the immediate significance of the reported gains.

major comments (3)
  1. [Evaluation / SwanBench-Speech] SwanBench-Speech section: No statement establishes that the benchmark is constructed from sources disjoint from SwanData-Speech, nor is any external validation or human correlation study provided for the richness and hierarchy metrics with respect to affective continuity or cross-turn coherence. This directly undermines the central superiority claim over baselines.
  2. [§3.3] §3.3 (DiffusionNFT post-training): The phone-level and speaker-similarity rewards are introduced, yet no ablation isolating their effect on dialogue richness/hierarchy scores versus the curriculum alone is reported, leaving the contribution of the post-training stage to the headline result unquantified.
  3. [Experiments] Experiments section: Content accuracy is identified as the main limitation, but no numerical values, comparison tables, or statistical tests are supplied for this metric, preventing assessment of whether the richness/hierarchy gains come at an acceptable cost to intelligibility.
minor comments (2)
  1. The audio demo link is provided but no accompanying human listening test protocol or inter-rater agreement statistics are described to corroborate the automatic metrics.
  2. [Model architecture] Notation for speaker-turn conditioning in the DiT is introduced without an explicit equation or diagram showing how turn embeddings are injected relative to the flow-matching objective.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and will make revisions to strengthen the presentation of the evaluation, ablations, and results.

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  1. Referee: [Evaluation / SwanBench-Speech] SwanBench-Speech section: No statement establishes that the benchmark is constructed from sources disjoint from SwanData-Speech, nor is any external validation or human correlation study provided for the richness and hierarchy metrics with respect to affective continuity or cross-turn coherence. This directly undermines the central superiority claim over baselines.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit statement on the construction of SwanBench-Speech is needed. The benchmark was built from sources held out from SwanData-Speech; we will add a clear description of the data sources and their separation in the revised section. For the metrics, we will expand the description of richness and hierarchy to better articulate their relation to affective continuity and cross-turn coherence. While no dedicated external human correlation study is reported, the metrics were designed with these aspects in mind based on internal validation; we will include additional details on their formulation to support the claims. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.3] §3.3 (DiffusionNFT post-training): The phone-level and speaker-similarity rewards are introduced, yet no ablation isolating their effect on dialogue richness/hierarchy scores versus the curriculum alone is reported, leaving the contribution of the post-training stage to the headline result unquantified.

    Authors: The referee is correct that the contribution of the DiffusionNFT stage is not isolated via ablation. We will add an ablation study in the revised manuscript that compares results with and without the post-training stage on the dialogue richness and hierarchy metrics to quantify its effect beyond the curriculum. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: Content accuracy is identified as the main limitation, but no numerical values, comparison tables, or statistical tests are supplied for this metric, preventing assessment of whether the richness/hierarchy gains come at an acceptable cost to intelligibility.

    Authors: We acknowledge the absence of specific numerical results for content accuracy. We will incorporate numerical values, baseline comparisons, and relevant tables or statistical details for this metric in the Experiments section of the revision to allow proper evaluation of any trade-offs. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; evaluation rests on external benchmark comparison without reduction to fitted parameters or self-citation chains.

full rationale

The paper describes construction of SwanData-Speech via aligner and prior TTS model, followed by curriculum training and DiffusionNFT post-training on a flow-matching DiT, then reports benchmark scores on SwanBench-Speech against open-source baselines. No equations, fitted parameters, or predictions are shown to reduce by construction to inputs (e.g., no self-definitional metrics or predictions forced by training fits). Self-citations, if present, are not load-bearing for the central claim, which remains an empirical comparison on author-defined data. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

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Abstract-only view yields no identifiable free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the model description references standard components (VAE, DiT, flow matching) without new postulated entities.

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