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AdaptVC: High Quality Voice Conversion with Adaptive Learning

Sound 2025-01-15 v4 Computation and Language Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

The goal of voice conversion is to transform the speech of a source speaker to sound like that of a reference speaker while preserving the original content. A key challenge is to extract disentangled linguistic content from the source and voice style from the reference. While existing approaches leverage various methods to isolate the two, a generalization still requires further attention, especially for robustness in zero-shot scenarios. In this paper, we achieve successful disentanglement of content and speaker features by tuning self-supervised speech features with adapters. The adapters are trained to dynamically encode nuanced features from rich self-supervised features, and the decoder fuses them to produce speech that accurately resembles the reference with minimal loss of content. Moreover, we leverage a conditional flow matching decoder with cross-attention speaker conditioning to further boost the synthesis quality and efficiency. Subjective and objective evaluations in a zero-shot scenario demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing models in speech quality and similarity to the reference speech.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2501.01347,
  title  = {AdaptVC: High Quality Voice Conversion with Adaptive Learning},
  author = {Jaehun Kim and Ji-Hoon Kim and Yeunju Choi and Tan Dat Nguyen and Seongkyu Mun and Joon Son Chung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01347},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

ICASSP 2025; demo available https://mm.kaist.ac.kr/projects/AdaptVC

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