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We propose a parallel-data-free voice-conversion (VC) method that can learn a mapping from source to target speech without relying on parallel data. The proposed method is general purpose, high quality, and parallel-data free and works…

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Speech enhancement at extremely low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) condition is a very challenging problem and rarely investigated in previous works. This paper proposes a robust speech enhancement approach (UNetGAN) based on U-Net and…

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Unsupervised domain adaptation seeks to mitigate the distribution discrepancy between source and target domains, given labeled samples of the source domain and unlabeled samples of the target domain. Generative adversarial networks (GANs)…

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Recently, cycle-consistent adversarial network (Cycle-GAN) has been successfully applied to voice conversion to a different speaker without parallel data, although in those approaches an individual model is needed for each target speaker.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Ju-chieh Chou , Cheng-chieh Yeh , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

With the rapid development of neural networks in recent years, the ability of various networks to enhance the magnitude spectrum of noisy speech in the single-channel speech enhancement domain has become exceptionally outstanding. However,…

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Generative adversarial network-based models have shown remarkable performance in the field of speech enhancement. However, the current optimization strategies for these models predominantly focus on refining the architecture of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xihao Yuan , Siqi Liu , Yan Chen , Hang Zhou , Chang Liu , Hanting Chen , Jie Hu

In recent years, machine learning has achieved impressive results across different application areas. However, machine learning algorithms do not necessarily perform well on a new domain with a different distribution than its training set.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Ye Gao , Zhendong Chu , Hongning Wang , John Stankovic

A method for statistical parametric speech synthesis incorporating generative adversarial networks (GANs) is proposed. Although powerful deep neural networks (DNNs) techniques can be applied to artificially synthesize speech waveform, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Voice conversion is to generate a new speech with the source content and a target voice style. In this paper, we focus on one general setting, i.e., non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion, which is close to the real-world scenario. As…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jian Ma , Zhedong Zheng , Hao Fei , Feng Zheng , Tat-seng Chua , Yi Yang

Cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks have been widely used in non-parallel voice conversion (VC). Their ability to learn mappings between source and target features without relying on parallel training data eliminates the need…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dominik Wagner , Ilja Baumann , Tobias Bocklet

Emotional Voice Conversion, or emotional VC, is a technique of converting speech from one emotion state into another one, keeping the basic linguistic information and speaker identity. Previous approaches for emotional VC need parallel data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Helen Meng

We propose a novel method that combines CycleGAN and inter-domain losses for semi-supervised end-to-end automatic speech recognition. Inter-domain loss targets the extraction of an intermediate shared representation of speech and text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Chia-Yu Li , Ngoc Thang Vu

In recent years generative adversarial network (GAN) based models have been successfully applied for unsupervised speech-to-speech conversion.The rich compact harmonic view of the magnitude spectrogram is considered a suitable choice for…

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Naturally introduced perturbations in audio signal, caused by emotional and physical states of the speaker, can significantly degrade the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. In this paper, we propose a front-end based…

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Binary classifiers are often employed as discriminators in GAN-based unsupervised style transfer systems to ensure that transferred sentences are similar to sentences in the target domain. One difficulty with this approach is that the error…

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Sentiment analysis of user-generated reviews or comments on products and services in social networks can help enterprises to analyze the feedback from customers and take corresponding actions for improvement. To mitigate large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Sicheng Zhao , Yang Xiao , Jiang Guo , Xiangyu Yue , Jufeng Yang , Ravi Krishna , Pengfei Xu , Kurt Keutzer

Voice conversion (VC) refers to transforming the speaker characteristics of an utterance without altering its linguistic contents. Many works on voice conversion require to have parallel training data that is highly expensive to acquire.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Shindong Lee , BongGu Ko , Keonnyeong Lee , In-Chul Yoo , Dongsuk Yook

This paper adapts a StyleGAN model for speech generation with minimal or no conditioning on text. StyleGAN is a multi-scale convolutional GAN capable of hierarchically capturing data structure and latent variation on multiple spatial (or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Kasperi Palkama , Lauri Juvela , Alexander Ilin

Recently, GAN based speech synthesis methods, such as MelGAN, have become very popular. Compared to conventional autoregressive based methods, parallel structures based generators make waveform generation process fast and stable. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Qiao Tian , Yi Chen , Zewang Zhang , Heng Lu , Linghui Chen , Lei Xie , Shan Liu

We propose a learning-based filter that allows us to directly modify a synthetic speech waveform into a natural speech waveform. Speech-processing systems using a vocoder framework such as statistical parametric speech synthesis and voice…

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