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In this paper, we propose a non-parallel any-to-many voice conversion (VC) method termed VoiceGrad. Inspired by WaveGrad, a recently introduced novel waveform generation method, VoiceGrad is based upon the concepts of score matching and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hirokazu Kameoka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Kou Tanaka , Nobukatsu Hojo , Shogo Seki

Speech enhancement is an essential task of improving speech quality in noise scenario. Several state-of-the-art approaches have introduced visual information for speech enhancement,since the visual aspect of speech is essentially unaffected…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Xinmeng Xu , Yang Wang , Dongxiang Xu , Yiyuan Peng , Cong Zhang , Jie Jia , Binbin Chen

We propose a parallel-data-free voice-conversion (VC) method that can learn a mapping from source to target speech without relying on parallel data. The proposed method is general purpose, high quality, and parallel-data free and works…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-21 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka

Many-to-many voice conversion with non-parallel training data has seen significant progress in recent years. StarGAN-based models have been interests of voice conversion. However, most of the StarGAN-based methods only focused on voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mingjie Chen , Yanpei Shi , Thomas Hain

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are machine learning networks based around creating synthetic data. Voice Conversion (VC) is a subset of voice translation that involves translating the paralinguistic features of a source speaker to a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Samuel J. Broughton , Md Asif Jalal , Roger K. Moore

Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion is recently attract-ing huge research efforts in the speech processing community. A voice conversion system transforms an utterance of a source speaker to another utterance of a target speaker by…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zining Zhang , Bingsheng He , Zhenjie Zhang

Recently, cycle-consistent adversarial network (Cycle-GAN) has been successfully applied to voice conversion to a different speaker without parallel data, although in those approaches an individual model is needed for each target speaker.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Ju-chieh Chou , Cheng-chieh Yeh , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become exceedingly popular in a wide range of data-driven research fields, due in part to their success in image generation. Their ability to generate new samples, often from only a small amount…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Thomas Wiest , Nicholas Cummins , Alice Baird , Simone Hantke , Judith Dineley , Björn Schuller

We propose Parallel WaveGAN, a distillation-free, fast, and small-footprint waveform generation method using a generative adversarial network. In the proposed method, a non-autoregressive WaveNet is trained by jointly optimizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-07 Ryuichi Yamamoto , Eunwoo Song , Jae-Min Kim

Cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks have been widely used in non-parallel voice conversion (VC). Their ability to learn mappings between source and target features without relying on parallel training data eliminates the need…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dominik Wagner , Ilja Baumann , Tobias Bocklet

Audio signals are sampled at high temporal resolutions, and learning to synthesize audio requires capturing structure across a range of timescales. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have seen wide success at generating images that are…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Chris Donahue , Julian McAuley , Miller Puckette

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

This paper shows that StarGAN-VC, a spectral envelope transformation method for non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion (VC), is capable of emotional VC (EVC). Although StarGAN-VC has been shown to enable speaker identity conversion, its…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Asuka Moritani , Ryo Ozaki , Shoki Sakamoto , Hirokazu Kameoka , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Singing voice conversion aims to convert singer's voice from source to target without changing singing content. Parallel training data is typically required for the training of singing voice conversion system, that is however not practical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Junchen Lu , Kun Zhou , Berrak Sisman , Haizhou Li

Voice Conversion (VC) modifies speech to match a target speaker while preserving linguistic content. Traditional methods usually extract speaker information directly from speech while neglecting the explicit utilization of linguistic…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Fengjin Li , Jie Wang , Yadong Niu , Yongqing Wang , Meng Meng , Jian Luan , Zhiyong Wu

When trained on multimodal image datasets, normal Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are usually outperformed by class-conditional GANs and ensemble GANs, but conditional GANs is restricted to labeled datasets and ensemble GANs lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Haifeng Shi , Guanyu Cai , Yuqin Wang , Shaohua Shang , Lianghua He

This paper presents an adversarial learning method for recognition-synthesis based non-parallel voice conversion. A recognizer is used to transform acoustic features into linguistic representations while a synthesizer recovers output…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

We introduce a novel method for emotion conversion in speech that does not require parallel training data. Our approach loosely relies on a cycle-GAN schema to minimize the reconstruction error from converting back and forth between emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Ravi Shankar , Jacob Sager , Archana Venkataraman

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 paper, we describe our speech generation system for the first Audio Deep Synthesis Detection Challenge (ADD 2022). Firstly, we build an any-to-many voice conversion (VC) system to convert source speech with arbitrary language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Cheng Wen , Tingwei Guo , Xingjun Tan , Rui Yan , Shuran Zhou , Chuandong Xie , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li