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FasterVoiceGrad: Faster One-step Diffusion-Based Voice Conversion with Adversarial Diffusion Conversion Distillation

Sound 2025-08-26 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Audio and Speech Processing Machine Learning

Abstract

A diffusion-based voice conversion (VC) model (e.g., VoiceGrad) can achieve high speech quality and speaker similarity; however, its conversion process is slow owing to iterative sampling. FastVoiceGrad overcomes this limitation by distilling VoiceGrad into a one-step diffusion model. However, it still requires a computationally intensive content encoder to disentangle the speaker's identity and content, which slows conversion. Therefore, we propose FasterVoiceGrad, a novel one-step diffusion-based VC model obtained by simultaneously distilling a diffusion model and content encoder using adversarial diffusion conversion distillation (ADCD), where distillation is performed in the conversion process while leveraging adversarial and score distillation training. Experimental evaluations of one-shot VC demonstrated that FasterVoiceGrad achieves competitive VC performance compared to FastVoiceGrad, with 6.6-6.9 and 1.8 times faster speed on a GPU and CPU, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2508.17868,
  title  = {FasterVoiceGrad: Faster One-step Diffusion-Based Voice Conversion with Adversarial Diffusion Conversion Distillation},
  author = {Takuhiro Kaneko and Hirokazu Kameoka and Kou Tanaka and Yuto Kondo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.17868},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted to Interspeech 2025. Project page: https://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/people/kaneko.takuhiro/projects/fastervoicegrad/

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