TY  - EJOU
AU  - Maskeliūnas, Rytis 
AU  - Damaševičius, Robertas 
AU  - Kulikajevas, Audrius 
AU  - Pribuišis, Kipras 
AU  - Ulozaitė-Stanienė, Nora 
AU  - Uloza, Virgilijus 

TI  - Mordukhovich Subdifferential Optimization Framework for Multi-Criteria Voice Cloning of Pathological Speech
T2  - Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences

PY  - 2025
VL  - 145
IS  - 3
SN  - 1526-1506

AB  - This study introduces a novel voice cloning framework driven by Mordukhovich Subdifferential Optimization (MSO) to address the complex multi-objective challenges of pathological speech synthesis in under-resourced Lithuanian language with unique phonemes not present in most pre-trained models. Unlike existing voice synthesis models that often optimize for a single objective or are restricted to major languages, our approach explicitly balances four competing criteria: speech naturalness, speaker similarity, computational efficiency, and adaptability to pathological voice patterns. We evaluate four model configurations combining Lithuanian and English encoders, synthesizers, and vocoders. The hybrid model (English encoder, Lithuanian synthesizer, English vocoder), optimized via MSO, achieved the highest Mean Opinion Score (MOS) of 4.3 and demonstrated superior intelligibility and speaker fidelity. The results confirm that MSO enables effective navigation of trade-offs in multilingual pathological voice cloning, offering a scalable path toward high-quality voice restoration in clinical speech applications. This work represents the first integration of Mordukhovich optimization into pathological TTS, setting a new benchmark for speech synthesis under clinical and linguistic constraints.
KW  - Mordukhovich subdifferential optimization; multi-objective optimization; alaryngeal voice reconstruction

DO  - 10.32604/cmes.2025.072790