AI engineering glossary · Generative media multimodal
What is Zero-shot TTS?
Zero-shot TTS: Speech synthesis that imitates a voice never seen in training, using only a short reference clip supplied at run time and no fine-tuning. It generally relies on large models trained on many speakers.
Zero-shot TTS: an example
A 5-second recording of a new speaker is passed as a prompt and the model reads a fresh sentence in that voice.
Related terms
More Generative media multimodal terms
- 3D Gaussian splatting
- Acoustic model
- Audio language model
- Beta-VAE
- BLIP
- Classifier-free guidance
- CLIP score
- Codebook
Where you learn it
Zero-shot TTS is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.