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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

This paper proposes a voice conversion (VC) method using sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq or S2S) learning, which flexibly converts not only the voice characteristics but also the pitch contour and duration of input speech. The proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Damian Kwasny , Takuhiro Kaneko , Nobukatsu Hojo

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

This paper presents the sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) baseline system for the voice conversion challenge (VCC) 2020. We consider a naive approach for voice conversion (VC), which is to first transcribe the input speech with an automatic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Shinji Watanabe , Tomoki Toda

This paper proposes a non-autoregressive extension of our previously proposed sequence-to-sequence (S2S) model-based voice conversion (VC) methods. S2S model-based VC methods have attracted particular attention in recent years for their…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Takuhiro Kaneko

We present a novel approach to any-to-one (A2O) voice conversion (VC) in a sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) framework. A2O VC aims to convert any speaker, including those unseen during training, to a fixed target speaker. We utilize…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Wen-Chin Huang , Yi-Chiao Wu , Tomoki Hayashi , Tomoki Toda

This paper proposes an any-to-many location-relative, sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq), non-parallel voice conversion approach, which utilizes text supervision during training. In this approach, we combine a bottle-neck feature extractor…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Disong Wang , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

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

This paper presents a method of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion using non-parallel training data. In this method, disentangled linguistic and speaker representations are extracted from acoustic features, and voice conversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

We present a voice conversion solution using recurrent sequence to sequence modeling for DNNs. Our solution takes advantage of recent advances in attention based modeling in the fields of Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Text-to-Speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-19 Praveen Narayanan , Punarjay Chakravarty , Francois Charette , Gint Puskorius

This paper presents methods of making using of text supervision to improve the performance of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion. Compared with conventional frame-to-frame voice conversion approaches, the seq2seq acoustic…

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

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…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Tomoki Hayashi , Wen-Chin Huang , Kazuhiro Kobayashi , Tomoki Toda

This paper proposes a novel Sequence-to-Sequence (Seq2Seq) model integrating the structure of Hidden Semi-Markov Models (HSMMs) into its attention mechanism. In speech synthesis, it has been shown that methods based on Seq2Seq models using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yoshihiko Nankaku , Kenta Sumiya , Takenori Yoshimura , Shinji Takaki , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Keiichi Tokuda

Recent trends in neural network based text-to-speech/speech synthesis pipelines have employed recurrent Seq2seq architectures that can synthesize realistic sounding speech directly from text characters. These systems however have complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Gary Wang

Voice conversion (VC) is a task to transform a person's voice to different style while conserving linguistic contents. Previous state-of-the-art on VC is based on sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model, which could mislead linguistic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Tae-Ho Kim , Sungjae Cho , Shinkook Choi , Sejik Park , Soo-Young Lee

Voice conversion (VC) using sequence-to-sequence learning of context posterior probabilities is proposed. Conventional VC using shared context posterior probabilities predicts target speech parameters from the context posterior…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hiroyuki Miyoshi , Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Non-autoregressive (non-AR) sequence-to-seqeunce (seq2seq) models for voice conversion (VC) is attractive in its ability to effectively model the temporal structure while enjoying boosted intelligibility and fast inference thanks to non-AR…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Wen-Chin Huang , Kazuhiro Kobayashi , Tomoki Toda

This work proposes a novel approach based on sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models for context-aware conversational systems. Exist- ing seq2seq models have been shown to be good for generating natural responses in a data-driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Silje Christensen , Simen Johnsrud , Massimiliano Ruocco , Heri Ramampiaro

This paper proposes a voice conversion (VC) method based on a sequence-to-sequence (S2S) learning framework, which enables simultaneous conversion of the voice characteristics, pitch contour, and duration of input speech. We previously…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Hirokazu Kameoka , Wen-Chin Huang , Kou Tanaka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Nobukatsu Hojo , Tomoki Toda

This paper proposes a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model with a musical note position-aware attention mechanism for singing voice synthesis (SVS). A seq2seq modeling approach that can simultaneously perform acoustic and temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda
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