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SCIC: Scope- and Codebook-Aware Instruction Conditioning for Speaker-Adapted Expressive TTS

Long-form live-streaming TTS requires context-dependent prosody and paragraph-level coherence. However, many existing instruction-based TTS systems use global or uniform conditions, providing limited explicit control over clause-level relative prosodic changes. We introduce Speaker-Relative Inline Prosody Control, where each Pitch, Energy, or Speed instruction targets a clause relative to the…

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