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In this paper, a neural network named Sequence-to-sequence ConvErsion NeTwork (SCENT) is presented for acoustic modeling in voice conversion. At training stage, a SCENT model is estimated by aligning the feature sequences of source and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Juan Liu , Yuan Jiang , Li-Rong Dai

Applying changes to an input speech signal to change the perceived speaker of speech to a target while maintaining the content of the input is a challenging but interesting task known as Voice conversion (VC). Over the last few years, this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Olga Slizovskaia , Jordi Janer , Pritish Chandna , Oscar Mayor

We present a wav-to-wav generative model for the task of singing voice conversion from any identity. Our method utilizes both an acoustic model, trained for the task of automatic speech recognition, together with melody extracted features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Adam Polyak , Lior Wolf , Yossi Adi , Yaniv Taigman

We propose noise-robust voice conversion (VC) which takes into account the recording quality and environment of noisy source speech. Conventional denoising training improves the noise robustness of a VC model by learning noisy-to-clean VC…

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

We introduce a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion (VC) model based on the Transformer architecture with text-to-speech (TTS) pretraining. Seq2seq VC models are attractive owing to their ability to convert prosody. While…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Yi-Chiao Wu , Hirokazu Kameoka , Tomoki Toda

Voice conversion (VC) stands as a crucial research area in speech synthesis, enabling the transformation of a speaker's vocal characteristics to resemble another while preserving the linguistic content. This technology has broad…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sandipan Dhar , Nanda Dulal Jana , Swagatam Das

Expressive voice conversion (VC) conducts speaker identity conversion for emotional speakers by jointly converting speaker identity and emotional style. Emotional style modeling for arbitrary speakers in expressive VC has not been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Zongyang Du , Junchen Lu , Kun Zhou , Lakshmish Kaushik , Berrak Sisman

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) is a technique that enables any singer to perform any song. To achieve this, it is essential to obtain speaker-agnostic representations from the source audio, which poses a significant challenge. A common…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xueyao Zhang , Zihao Fang , Yicheng Gu , Haopeng Chen , Lexiao Zou , Junan Zhang , Liumeng Xue , Zhizheng Wu

Generative voice technologies are rapidly evolving, offering opportunities for more personalized and inclusive experiences. Traditional one-shot voice conversion (VC) requires a target recording during inference, limiting ease of usage in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Jiarui Hai , Karan Thakkar , Helin Wang , Zengyi Qin , Mounya Elhilali

The goal of voice conversion (VC) is to convert input voice to match the target speaker's voice while keeping text and prosody intact. VC is usually used in entertainment and speaking-aid systems, as well as applied for speech data…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 A. Kashkin , I. Karpukhin , S. Shishkin

Traditional voice conversion methods rely on parallel recordings of multiple speakers pronouncing the same sentences. For real-world applications however, parallel data is rarely available. We propose MelGAN-VC, a voice conversion method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Marco Pasini

Voice conversion (VC) consists of digitally altering the voice of an individual to manipulate part of its content, primarily its identity, while maintaining the rest unchanged. Research in neural VC has accomplished considerable…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Laurent Benaroya , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion (VC) models are attractive owing to their ability to convert prosody. Nonetheless, without sufficient data, seq2seq VC models can suffer from unstable training and mispronunciation problems in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Yi-Chiao Wu , Hirokazu Kameoka , Tomoki Toda

Voice conversion for highly expressive speech is challenging. Current approaches struggle with the balancing between speaker similarity, intelligibility and expressiveness. To address this problem, we propose Expressive-VC, a novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-10 Ziqian Ning , Qicong Xie , Pengcheng Zhu , Zhichao Wang , Liumeng Xue , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie , Mengxiao Bi

Voice conversion has gained increasing popularity within the field of audio manipulation and speech synthesis. Often, the main objective is to transfer the input identity to that of a target speaker without changing its linguistic content.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Anders R. Bargum , Simon Lajboschitz , Cumhur Erkut

Style voice conversion aims to transform the style of source speech to a desired style according to real-world application demands. However, the current style voice conversion approach relies on pre-defined labels or reference speech to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Jixun Yao , Yuguang Yang , Yi Lei , Ziqian Ning , Yanni Hu , Yu Pan , Jingjing Yin , Hongbin Zhou , Heng Lu , Lei Xie

We present an approach to synthesize whisper by applying a handcrafted signal processing recipe and Voice Conversion (VC) techniques to convert normally phonated speech to whispered speech. We investigate using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM)…

Cross-lingual voice conversion (CLVC) is a quite challenging task since the source and target speakers speak different languages. This paper proposes a CLVC framework based on bottleneck features and deep neural network (DNN). In the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-12 M Kiran Reddy , K Sreenivasa Rao

We present an end-to-end method for transforming audio from one style to another. For the case of speech, by conditioning on speaker identities, we can train a single model to transform words spoken by multiple people into multiple target…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Albert Haque , Michelle Guo , Prateek Verma