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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

This paper proposes a non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion (VC) method using a variant of the conditional variational autoencoder (VAE) called an auxiliary classifier VAE (ACVAE). The proposed method has three key features. First, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-13 Hirokazu Kameoka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Kou Tanaka , Nobukatsu Hojo

Building cross-lingual voice conversion (VC) systems for multiple speakers and multiple languages has been a challenging task for a long time. This paper describes a parallel non-autoregressive network to achieve bilingual and code-switched…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Yaogen Yang , Haozhe Zhang , Xiaoyi Qin , Shanshan Liang , Huahua Cui , Mingyang Xu , Ming Li

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

Primary goal of an emotional voice conversion (EVC) system is to convert the emotion of a given speech signal from one style to another style without modifying the linguistic content of the signal. Most of the state-of-the-art approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Nirmesh Shah , Mayank Kumar Singh , Naoya Takahashi , Naoyuki Onoe

Language style transferring rephrases text with specific stylistic attributes while preserving the original attribute-independent content. One main challenge in learning a style transfer system is a lack of parallel data where the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Zhirui Zhang , Shuo Ren , Shujie Liu , Jianyong Wang , Peng Chen , Mu Li , Ming Zhou , Enhong Chen

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

This paper proposes a new task called spatial voice conversion, which aims to convert a target voice while preserving spatial information and non-target signals. Traditional voice conversion methods focus on single-channel waveforms,…

We present an unsupervised non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion (VC) method using a generative adversarial network (GAN) called StarGAN v2. Using a combination of adversarial source classifier loss and perceptual loss, our model…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yinghao Aaron Li , Ali Zare , Nima Mesgarani

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

This paper presents AC-VC (Almost Causal Voice Conversion), a phonetic posteriorgrams based voice conversion system that can perform any-to-many voice conversion while having only 57.5 ms future look-ahead. The complete system is composed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Damien Ronssin , Milos Cernak

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

In this paper, we propose a model to perform style transfer of speech to singing voice. Contrary to the previous signal processing-based methods, which require high-quality singing templates or phoneme synchronization, we explore a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Shrutina Agarwal , Sriram Ganapathy , Naoya Takahashi

Privacy-preserving voice conversion aims to remove only the attributes of speech audio that convey identity information, keeping other speech characteristics intact. This paper presents a mechanism for privacy-preserving voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jacob J Webber , Oliver Watts , Gustav Eje Henter , Jennifer Williams , Simon King

Accent Conversion (AC) seeks to change the accent of speech from one (source) to another (target) while preserving the speech content and speaker identity. However, many AC approaches rely on source-target parallel speech data. We propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Yi Zhou , Zhizheng Wu , Mingyang Zhang , Xiaohai Tian , Haizhou Li

Artificially generated speech is increasingly embedded in everyday life. Voice cloning in particular enables applications where identity preservation is important, such as completing a recording, dubbing in a new language, or preserving the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kaitlyn Zhou , Federico Bianchi , Martijn Bartelds , Anna Pot , Yongchan Kwon , James Zou

Non-parallel text style transfer is an important task in natural language generation. However, previous studies concentrate on the token or sentence level, such as sentence sentiment and formality transfer, but neglect long style transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xuekai Zhu , Jian Guan , Minlie Huang , Juan Liu

Voice conversion is a task of synthesizing an utterance with target speaker's voice while maintaining linguistic information of the source utterance. While a speaker can produce varying utterances from a single script with different…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Soobin Suh , Dabi Ahn , Heewoong Park , Jonghun Park

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

Recently, voice conversion (VC) has been widely studied. Many VC systems use disentangle-based learning techniques to separate the speaker and the linguistic content information from a speech signal. Subsequently, they convert the voice by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Yen-Hao Chen , Da-Yi Wu , Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-yi Lee
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