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Non-autoregressive sequence-to-sequence voice conversion

Sound 2021-04-15 v1 Computation and Language Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel voice conversion (VC) method based on non-autoregressive sequence-to-sequence (NAR-S2S) models. Inspired by the great success of NAR-S2S models such as FastSpeech in text-to-speech (TTS), we extend the FastSpeech2 model for the VC problem. We introduce the convolution-augmented Transformer (Conformer) instead of the Transformer, making it possible to capture both local and global context information from the input sequence. Furthermore, we extend variance predictors to variance converters to explicitly convert the source speaker's prosody components such as pitch and energy into the target speaker. The experimental evaluation with the Japanese speaker dataset, which consists of male and female speakers of 1,000 utterances, demonstrates that the proposed model enables us to perform more stable, faster, and better conversion than autoregressive S2S (AR-S2S) models such as Tacotron2 and Transformer.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.06793,
  title  = {Non-autoregressive sequence-to-sequence voice conversion},
  author = {Tomoki Hayashi and Wen-Chin Huang and Kazuhiro Kobayashi and Tomoki Toda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.06793},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Accepted to ICASSP2021. Demo HP: https://kan-bayashi.github.io/NonARSeq2SeqVC/

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