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Generative adversarial network (GAN) models can synthesize highquality audio signals while ensuring fast sample generation. However, they are difficult to train and are prone to several issues including mode collapse and divergence. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Teysir Baoueb , Haocheng Liu , Mathieu Fontaine , Jonathan Le Roux , Gael Richard

We present a novel typical-to-atypical voice conversion approach (DuTa-VC), which (i) can be trained with nonparallel data (ii) first introduces diffusion probabilistic model (iii) preserves the target speaker identity (iv) is aware of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Helin Wang , Thomas Thebaud , Jesus Villalba , Myra Sydnor , Becky Lammers , Najim Dehak , Laureano Moro-Velazquez

One-shot voice conversion has received significant attention since only one utterance from source speaker and target speaker respectively is required. Moreover, source speaker and target speaker do not need to be seen during training.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hongqiang Du , Lei Xie

Accurately estimating and simulating the physical properties of objects from real-world sound recordings is of great practical importance in the fields of vision, graphics, and robotics. However, the progress in these directions has been…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xutong Jin , Chenxi Xu , Ruohan Gao , Jiajun Wu , Guoping Wang , Sheng 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

This paper introduces PFlow-VC, a conditional flow matching voice conversion model that leverages fine-grained discrete pitch tokens and target speaker prompt information for expressive voice conversion (VC). Previous VC works primarily…

Voice conversion (VC) is a task that transforms the source speaker's timbre, accent, and tones in audio into another one's while preserving the linguistic content. It is still a challenging work, especially in a one-shot setting.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Da-Yi Wu , Yen-Hao Chen , Hung-Yi Lee

Most neural vocoders are limited to one type: either GAN or diffusion-based. While state-of-the-art models like Vocos and WaveNeXt use powerful ConvNeXt-based generators, they have only been used in GAN frameworks and have limited…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Wangzixi Zhou , Takuma Okamoto , Yamato Ohtani , Sakriani Sakti , Hisashi Kawai

Expressive voice conversion aims to transfer both speaker identity and expressive attributes from a target speech to a given source speech. In this work, we improve over a self-supervised, non-autoregressive framework with a conditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Seymanur Akti , Tuan Nam Nguyen , Alexander Waibel

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

Voice conversion (VC) techniques aim to modify speaker identity of an utterance while preserving the underlying linguistic information. Most VC approaches ignore modeling of the speaking style (e.g. emotion and emphasis), which may contain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Shiyin Kang , Na Hu , Xunying Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Helen Meng

Voice conversion for speaker anonymization is an emerging field in speech processing research. Many state-of-the-art approaches are based on the resynthesis of the phoneme posteriorgrams (PPG), the fundamental frequency (F0) of the input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Nils Peters

Generalization is a main issue for current audio deepfake detectors, which struggle to provide reliable results on out-of-distribution data. Given the speed at which more and more accurate synthesis methods are developed, it is very…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Alessandro Pianese , Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Luisa Verdoliva

Voice Conversion (VC) is a technique that aims to transform the non-linguistic information of a source utterance to change the perceived identity of the speaker. While there is a rich literature on VC, most proposed methods are trained and…

Voice conversion (VC) aims to modify the speaker's identity while preserving the linguistic content. Commonly, VC methods use an encoder-decoder architecture, where disentangling the speaker's identity from linguistic information is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Philip H. Lee , Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Berrak Sisman

Speaker change detection is an important task in multi-party interactions such as meetings and conversations. In this paper, we address the speaker change detection task from the perspective of sequence transduction. Specifically, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zhiyun Fan , Linhao Dong , Meng Cai , Zejun Ma , Bo Xu

AI-synthesized voice technology has the potential to create realistic human voices for beneficial applications, but it can also be misused for malicious purposes. While existing AI-synthesized voice detection models excel in intra-domain…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hainan Ren , Li Lin , Chun-Hao Liu , Xin Wang , Shu Hu

The estimation of glottal flow from a speech waveform is a key method for speech analysis and parameterization. Significant research effort has been made to dissociate the first vocal tract resonance from the glottal formant (the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Olivier Perrotin , Ian Vince McLoughlin

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

Despite recent progress in generative adversarial network (GAN)-based vocoders, where the model generates raw waveform conditioned on acoustic features, it is challenging to synthesize high-fidelity audio for numerous speakers across…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Sang-gil Lee , Wei Ping , Boris Ginsburg , Bryan Catanzaro , Sungroh Yoon