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We present the Voice Conversion Challenge 2018, designed as a follow up to the 2016 edition with the aim of providing a common framework for evaluating and comparing different state-of-the-art voice conversion (VC) systems. The objective of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-13 Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba , Junichi Yamagishi , Tomoki Toda , Daisuke Saito , Fernando Villavicencio , Tomi Kinnunen , Zhenhua Ling

One-shot style transfer is a challenging task, since training on one utterance makes model extremely easy to over-fit to training data and causes low speaker similarity and lack of expressiveness. In this paper, we build on the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Zhichao Wang , Qicong Xie , Tao Li , Hongqiang Du , Lei Xie , Pengcheng Zhu , Mengxiao Bi

Style voice conversion aims to transform the speaking style of source speech into a desired style while keeping the original speaker's identity. However, previous style voice conversion approaches primarily focus on well-defined domains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-09 Xinfa Zhu , Lei He , Yujia Xiao , Xi Wang , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao , Lei Xie

An audiovisual speaker conversion method is presented for simultaneously transforming the facial expressions and voice of a source speaker into those of a target speaker. Transforming the facial and acoustic features together makes it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-04 Fuming Fang , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen

One-shot voice conversion (VC), which performs conversion across arbitrary speakers with only a single target-speaker utterance for reference, can be effectively achieved by speech representation disentanglement. Existing work generally…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Disong Wang , Liqun Deng , Yu Ting Yeung , Xiao Chen , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Despite remarkable advancements in recent voice conversion (VC) systems, enhancing speaker similarity in zero-shot scenarios remains challenging. This challenge arises from the difficulty of generalizing and adapting speaker characteristics…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ha-Yeong Choi , Jaehan Park

This paper presents a method for end-to-end cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) which aims to preserve the target language's pronunciation regardless of the original speaker's language. The model used is based on a non-attentive Tacotron…

Recently, attention-based transformers have become a de facto standard in many deep learning applications including natural language processing, computer vision, signal processing, etc.. In this paper, we propose a transformer-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Tathagata Bandyopadhyay

Generative audio technologies now enable highly realistic voice cloning and real-time voice conversion, increasing the risk of impersonation, fraud, and misinformation in communication channels such as phone and video calls. This study…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Prajwal Chinchmalatpure , Suyash Chinchmalatpure , Siddharth Chavan

We propose TES-VC (Text-driven Environment and Speaker controllable Voice Conversion), a text-driven voice conversion framework with independent control of speaker timbre and environmental acoustics. TES-VC processes simultaneous text…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jiawei Jin , Zhihan Yang , Yixuan Zhou , Zhiyong Wu

Voice Conversion(VC) refers to changing the timbre of a speech while retaining the discourse content. Recently, many works have focused on disentangle-based learning techniques to separate the timbre and the linguistic content information…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

An automatic speaker verification system aims to verify the speaker identity of a speech signal. However, a voice conversion system could manipulate a person's speech signal to make it sound like another speaker's voice and deceive the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Danwei Cai , Zexin Cai , Ming Li

Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion remains an interesting but challenging speech processing task. Recently, AutoVC, a conditional autoencoder based method, achieved excellent conversion results by disentangling the speaker identity…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Zhen Zeng , Edward Xiao , Jing Xiao

Modern speaker recognition system relies on abundant and balanced datasets for classification training. However, diverse defective datasets, such as partially-labelled, small-scale, and imbalanced datasets, are common in real-world…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Ruijie Tao , Zhan Shi , Yidi Jiang , Tianchi Liu , Haizhou Li

Variational autoencoder-based voice conversion (VAE-VC) has the advantage of requiring only pairs of speeches and speaker labels for training. Unlike the majority of the research in VAE-VC which focuses on utilizing auxiliary losses or…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Kei Akuzawa , Kotaro Onishi , Keisuke Takiguchi , Kohki Mametani , Koichiro Mori

Voice Conversion (VC) converts the voice of a source speech to that of a target while maintaining the source's content. Speech can be mainly decomposed into four components: content, timbre, rhythm and pitch. Unfortunately, most related…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Zhonghua Liu , Shijun Wang , Ning Chen

Singing voice conversion aims to transform a source singing voice into that of a target singer while preserving the original lyrics, melody, and various vocal techniques. In this paper, we propose a high-fidelity singing voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yiquan Zhou , Wenyu Wang , Hongwu Ding , Jiacheng Xu , Jihua Zhu , Xin Gao , Shihao Li

In this paper, we propose a novel voice conversion strategy to resolve the mismatch between the training and conversion scenarios when parallel speech corpus is unavailable for training. Based on auto-encoder and disentanglement frameworks,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Yoohwan Kwon , Soo-Whan Chung , Hee-Soo Heo , Hong-Goo Kang

In this paper, we propose an online speaker adaptation method for WaveNet-based neural vocoders in order to improve their performance on speaker-independent waveform generation. In this method, a speaker encoder is first constructed using a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Qiuchen Huang , Yang Ai , Zhenhua Ling

While signal conversion and disentangled representation learning have shown promise for manipulating data attributes across domains such as audio, image, and multimodal generation, existing approaches, especially for speech style…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jonathan Svirsky , Ofir Lindenbaum , Uri Shaham