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This paper introduces VoxSim, a dataset of perceptual voice similarity ratings. Recent efforts to automate the assessment of speech synthesis technologies have primarily focused on predicting mean opinion score of naturalness, leaving…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-29 Junseok Ahn , Youkyum Kim , Yeunju Choi , Doyeop Kwak , Ji-Hoon Kim , Seongkyu Mun , Joon Son Chung

Non-reference speech quality models are important for a growing number of applications. The VoiceMOS 2022 challenge provided a dataset of synthetic voice conversion and text-to-speech samples with subjective labels. This study looks at the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Michael Chinen , Jan Skoglund , Chandan K A Reddy , Alessandro Ragano , Andrew Hines

Numerous voice conversion (VC) techniques have been proposed for the conversion of voices among different speakers. Although good quality of the converted speech can be observed when VC is applied in a clean environment, the quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Yun-Ju Chan , Chiang-Jen Peng , Syu-Siang Wang , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao , Tai-Shih Chi

The L3DAS22 Challenge is aimed at encouraging the development of machine learning strategies for 3D speech enhancement and 3D sound localization and detection in office-like environments. This challenge improves and extends the tasks of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Eric Guizzo , Christian Marinoni , Marco Pennese , Xinlei Ren , Xiguang Zheng , Chen Zhang , Bruno Masiero , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

This paper introduces voice reenactement as the task of voice conversion (VC) in which the expressivity of the source speaker is preserved during conversion while the identity of a target speaker is transferred. To do so, an original…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Frederik Bous , Laurent Benaroya , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

Voice conversion has gained increasing popularity in many applications of speech synthesis. The idea is to change the voice identity from one speaker into another while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Many voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Bac Nguyen , Fabien Cardinaux

This paper describes the Academia Sinica systems for the two tasks of Voice Conversion Challenge 2020, namely voice conversion within the same language (Task 1) and cross-lingual voice conversion (Task 2). For both tasks, we followed the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Yu-Huai Peng , Cheng-Hung Hu , Alexander Kang , Hung-Shin Lee , Pin-Yuan Chen , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

This paper presents a novel framework to build a voice conversion (VC) system by learning from a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system, that is called TTS-VC transfer learning. We first develop a multi-speaker speech synthesis system with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-07 Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Li Zhao , Haizhou Li

Diffusion-based singing voice conversion (SVC) models have shown better synthesis quality compared to traditional methods. However, in cross-domain SVC scenarios, where there is a significant disparity in pitch between the source and target…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Bingsong Bai , Fengping Wang , Yingming Gao , Ya Li

Singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to convert the voice of one singer to that of other singers while keeping the singing content and melody. On top of recent voice conversion works, we propose a novel model to steadily convert songs while…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Zhonghao Li , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Yuan Wan , Ling Xu , Chen Shen , Zejun Ma

The ASVspoof initiative was conceived to spearhead research in anti-spoofing for automatic speaker verification (ASV). This paper describes the third in a series of bi-annual challenges: ASVspoof 2019. With the challenge database and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Andreas Nautsch , Xin Wang , Nicholas Evans , Tomi Kinnunen , Ville Vestman , Massimiliano Todisco , Héctor Delgado , Md Sahidullah , Junichi Yamagishi , Kong Aik Lee

Disentangling speaker and content attributes of a speech signal into separate latent representations followed by decoding the content with an exchanged speaker representation is a popular approach for voice conversion, which can be trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Michael Kuhlmann , Fritz Seebauer , Janek Ebbers , Petra Wagner , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV), attracting significant attention from researchers. English is a resource-rich language that has witnessed various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen , Nghia Hieu Nguyen , Duong T. D Vo , Khanh Quoc Tran , Kiet Van Nguyen

Traditional voice conversion methods rely on parallel recordings of multiple speakers pronouncing the same sentences. For real-world applications however, parallel data is rarely available. We propose MelGAN-VC, a voice conversion method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Marco Pasini

Voice conversion as the style transfer task applied to speech, refers to converting one person's speech into a new speech that sounds like another person's. Up to now, there has been a lot of research devoted to better implementation of VC…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Yimin Deng , Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

The innate correlation between a person's face and voice has recently emerged as a compelling area of study, especially within the context of multilingual environments. This paper introduces our novel solution to the Face-Voice Association…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Wuyang Chen , Yanjie Sun , Kele Xu , Yong Dou

Spoken Dialogue Models (SDMs) have recently attracted significant attention for their ability to generate voice responses directly to users' spoken queries. Despite their increasing popularity, there exists a gap in research focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chengqian Ma , Wei Tao , Yiwen Guo

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

Accent conversion has rapidly progressed alongside growing interest in improving global cross-cultural communication. This survey presents an overview of the evolution of accent conversion methodologies, analyzing how the field has…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yurii Halychanskyi , Jianfeng Steven Guo , Volodymyr Kindratenko

We present S$^2$Voice, the winning system of the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge (SVCC) 2025 for both the in-domain and zero-shot singing style conversion tracks. Built on the strong two-stage Vevo baseline, S$^2$Voice advances style…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Ziqian Wang , Xianjun Xia , Chuanzeng Huang , Lei Xie