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As a foundational technology for intelligent human-computer interaction, voice conversion (VC) seeks to transform speech from any source timbre into any target timbre. Traditional voice conversion methods based on Generative Adversarial…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wenhan Yao , Fen Xiao , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , YongQiang He , Weiping Wen

In this work, we propose a new mathematical vocoder algorithm(modified spectral inversion) that generates a waveform from acoustic features without phase estimation. The main benefit of using our proposed method is that it excludes the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Hyun Gon Ryu , Jeong-Hoon Kim , Simon See

Voice conversion (VC) could be used to improve speech recognition systems in low-resource languages by using it to augment limited training data. However, VC has not been widely used for this purpose because of practical issues such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Matthew Baas , Herman Kamper

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

The goal of cross-speaker style transfer in TTS is to transfer a speech style from a source speaker with expressive data to a target speaker with only neutral data. In this context, we propose using a pre-trained singing voice conversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Leonardo B. de M. M. Marques , Lucas H. Ueda , Mário U. Neto , Flávio O. Simões , Fernando Runstein , Bianca Dal Bó , Paula D. P. Costa

Noise suppression (NS) algorithms are effective in improving speech quality in many cases. However, aggressive noise suppression can damage the target speech, reducing both speech intelligibility and quality despite removing the noise. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

One-shot voice conversion(VC) aims to change the timbre of any source speech to match that of the target speaker with only one speech sample. Existing style transfer-based VC methods relied on speech representation disentanglement and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Wenhan Yao , Zedong Xing , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , Yongqiang He , Weiping Wen

Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (VC) aims to transform the source speaker's timbre into an arbitrary unseen one while retaining speech content. Most prior work focuses on preserving the source's prosody, while fine-grained timbre information may…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Jialong Zuo , Shengpeng Ji , Minghui Fang , Mingze Li , Ziyue Jiang , Xize Cheng , Xiaoda Yang , Chen Feiyang , Xinyu Duan , Zhou Zhao

Transformers have become central to recent advances in audio classification. However, training an audio spectrogram transformer, e.g. AST, from scratch can be resource and time-intensive. Furthermore, the complexity of transformers heavily…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jiu Feng , Mehmet Hamza Erol , Joon Son Chung , Arda Senocak

With the development of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) technology, high-quality voice conversion (VC) can be achieved by extracting source content information and target speaker information to reconstruct…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Houjian Guo , Chaoran Liu , Carlos Toshinori Ishi , Hiroshi Ishiguro

Voice conversion (VC) modifies voice characteristics while preserving linguistic content. This paper presents the Stepback network, a novel model for converting speaker identity using non-parallel data. Unlike traditional VC methods that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Qian Yang , Calbert Graham

Voice Conversion (VC) aims to modify a speaker's timbre while preserving linguistic content. While recent VC models achieve strong performance, most struggle in real-time streaming scenarios due to high latency, dependence on ASR modules,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhao Guo , Ziqian Ning , Guobin Ma , Lei Xie

In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a quasi-periodic WaveNet (QPNet) vocoder combined with a statistical spectral conversion technique for a voice conversion task. The WaveNet (WN) vocoder has been applied as the waveform…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Yi-Chiao Wu , Patrick Lumban Tobing , Tomoki Hayashi , Kazuhiro Kobayashi , Tomoki Toda

Conveying the linguistic content and maintaining the source speech's speaking style, such as intonation and emotion, is essential in voice conversion (VC). However, in a low-resource situation, where only limited utterances from the target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Zhichao Wang , Xinsheng Wang , Lei Xie , Yuanzhe Chen , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang

Traditional voice conversion (VC) methods typically attempt to separate speaker identity and linguistic information into distinct representations, which are then combined to reconstruct the audio. However, effectively disentangling these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Huu Tuong Tu , Huan Vu , cuong tien nguyen , Dien Hy Ngo , Nguyen Thi Thu Trang

In text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC), acoustic features, such as mel spectrograms, are typically used as synthesis or conversion targets owing to their compactness and ease of learning. However, because the ultimate goal is to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert the original speaker's timbre to any target speaker while keeping the linguistic content. Current mainstream zero-shot voice conversion approaches depend on pre-trained recognition models to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yuke Li , Xinfa Zhu , Hanzhao Li , JiXun Yao , WenJie Tian , XiPeng Yang , YunLin Chen , Zhifei Li , Lei Xie

Data augmentation via voice conversion (VC) has been successfully applied to low-resource expressive text-to-speech (TTS) when only neutral data for the target speaker are available. Although the quality of VC is crucial for this approach,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Ryo Terashima , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Eunwoo Song , Yuma Shirahata , Hyun-Wook Yoon , Jae-Min Kim , Kentaro Tachibana

Zero-shot singing voice conversion (SVC) transforms a source singer's timbre to an unseen target speaker's voice while preserving melodic content without fine-tuning. Existing methods model speaker timbre and vocal content separately,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bingsong Bai , Yizhong Geng , Fengping Wang , Cong Wang , Puyuan Guo , Yingming Gao , Ya Li

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) has emerged as a significant subfield of Voice Conversion (VC), enabling the transformation of one singer's voice into another while preserving musical elements such as melody, rhythm, and timbre. Traditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yubo Huang , Xin Lai , Muyang Ye , Anran Zhu , Zixi Wang , Jingzehua Xu , Shuai Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhou , Weijie Niu
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