Zhikang Niu

Zhikang Niu has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on Speech & spoken language, Evaluation & benchmarks, Semitic languages; often with Kai Yu, Xie Chen, Yushen Chen.

3 papers in our library · 2025–2026

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F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching (2025 · 152 citations)
F5-TTS is a fully non-autoregressive zero-shot text-to-speech system. It drops the usual alignment machinery: no duration model, no text encoder, and no phoneme alignment. Like E2 TTS, it turns the transcript into a character sequence, pads it with filler tokens to the length of the mel spectrogram, and trains a…
Habibi: Laying the Open-Source Foundation of Unified-Dialectal Arabic Speech Synthesis (2026 · 2 citations)
Arabic has roughly 30 spoken varieties. Before this work, no open-source text-to-speech system covered them in a single model. Three obstacles stood in the way: large lexical and phonological differences between dialects, little audio clean enough for synthesis, and no shared benchmark for comparing systems.
Evaluating the Expressive Appropriateness of Speech in Rich Contexts (2026)
Current speech evaluation tools mostly score naturalness, signal quality or emotional intensity for single utterances.

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Updated 1 November 2026