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In this report, we describe our submitted system for track 2 of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2022 (VoxSRC-22). We fuse a variety of good-performing models ranging from supervised models to self-supervised learning(SSL)…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Gang Liu , Tianyan Zhou , Yong Zhao , Yu Wu , Zhuo Chen , Yao Qian , Jian Wu

With the development of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) technique, it's intuitive to construct a voice conversion system by cascading an ASR and TTS system. In this paper, we present a ASR-TTS method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Li-Juan Liu , Yan-Nian Chen , Ya-Jun Hu , Yuan Jiang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

This paper describes the Microsoft end-to-end neural text to speech (TTS) system: DelightfulTTS for Blizzard Challenge 2021. The goal of this challenge is to synthesize natural and high-quality speech from text, and we approach this goal in…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Yanqing Liu , Zhihang Xu , Gang Wang , Kuan Chen , Bohan Li , Xu Tan , Jinzhu Li , Lei He , Sheng Zhao

NatiQ is end-to-end text-to-speech system for Arabic. Our speech synthesizer uses an encoder-decoder architecture with attention. We used both tacotron-based models (tacotron-1 and tacotron-2) and the faster transformer model for generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Ahmed Abdelali , Nadir Durrani , Cenk Demiroglu , Fahim Dalvi , Hamdy Mubarak , Kareem Darwish

The voice conversion task is to modify the speaker identity of continuous speech while preserving the linguistic content. Generally, the naturalness and similarity are two main metrics for evaluating the conversion quality, which has been…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ziyi Chen , Hua Hua , Yuxiang Zhang , Ming Li , Pengyuan Zhang

We introduce a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion (VC) model based on the Transformer architecture with text-to-speech (TTS) pretraining. Seq2seq VC models are attractive owing to their ability to convert prosody. While…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Yi-Chiao Wu , Hirokazu Kameoka , Tomoki Toda

We present a system for non-intrusive prediction of speech quality in noisy and enhanced speech, developed for Track 3 of the VoiceMOS 2024 Challenge. The task required estimating the ITU-T P.835 metrics SIG, BAK, and OVRL without reference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Marie Kunešová , Aleš Pražák , Jan Lehečka

This paper introduces the T23 team's system submitted to the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2023. Following the recognition-synthesis framework, our singing conversion model is based on VITS, incorporating four key modules: a prior…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Ziqian Ning , Yuepeng Jiang , Zhichao Wang , Bin Zhang , Lei Xie

We present the latest iteration of the voice conversion challenge (VCC) series, a bi-annual scientific event aiming to compare and understand different voice conversion (VC) systems based on a common dataset. This year we shifted our focus…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Wen-Chin Huang , Lester Phillip Violeta , Songxiang Liu , Jiatong Shi , Tomoki Toda

In this paper we propose a new cross-lingual Voice Conversion (VC) approach which can generate all speech parameters (MCEP, LF0, BAP) from one DNN model using PPGs (Phonetic PosteriorGrams) extracted from inputted speech using several ASR…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Qinghua Sun , Kenji Nagamatsu

This paper describes speaker verification (SV) systems submitted by the SpeakIn team to the Task 1 and Task 2 of the Far-Field Speaker Verification Challenge 2022 (FFSVC2022). SV tasks of the challenge focus on the problem of fully…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Yu Zheng , Jinghan Peng , Yihao Chen , Yajun Zhang , Jialong Wang , Min Liu , Minqiang Xu

We present our system (denoted as T05) for the VoiceMOS Challenge (VMC) 2024. Our system was designed for the VMC 2024 Track 1, which focused on the accurate prediction of naturalness mean opinion score (MOS) for high-quality synthetic…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Kaito Baba , Wataru Nakata , Yuki Saito , Hiroshi Saruwatari

The Voice Conversion Challenge 2020 is the third edition under its flagship that promotes intra-lingual semiparallel and cross-lingual voice conversion (VC). While the primary evaluation of the challenge submissions was done through…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Rohan Kumar Das , Tomi Kinnunen , Wen-Chin Huang , Zhenhua Ling , Junichi Yamagishi , Yi Zhao , Xiaohai Tian , Tomoki Toda

This research presents a neural network based voice conversion (VC) model. While it is a known fact that voiced sounds and prosody are the most important component of the voice conversion framework, what is not known is their objective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Olaide Agbolade

Speaker identity is one of the important characteristics of human speech. In voice conversion, we change the speaker identity from one to another, while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Voice conversion involves multiple speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Berrak Sisman , Junichi Yamagishi , Simon King , Haizhou Li

This paper presents a system for the 2024 Text-Dependent Speaker Verification (TdSV) Challenge. The system achieved a Minimum Detection Cost Function (MinDCF) of 0.0461 and an Equal Error Rate (EER) of 1.3\%. Our approach focused on…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Amir Mohammad Rostami , Pourya Jafarzadeh

This paper proposes speaker-adaptive neural vocoders for parametric text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Recently proposed WaveNet-based neural vocoding systems successfully generate a time sequence of speech signal with an autoregressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Eunwoo Song , Jin-Seob Kim , Kyungguen Byun , Hong-Goo Kang

The goal of voice conversion (VC) is to convert input voice to match the target speaker's voice while keeping text and prosody intact. VC is usually used in entertainment and speaking-aid systems, as well as applied for speech data…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 A. Kashkin , I. Karpukhin , S. Shishkin

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

In this work, we present the system description of the UIAI entry for the short-duration speaker verification (SdSV) challenge 2020. Our focus is on Task 1 dedicated to text-dependent speaker verification. We investigate different feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Md Sahidullah , Achintya Kumar Sarkar , Ville Vestman , Xuechen Liu , Romain Serizel , Tomi Kinnunen , Zheng-Hua Tan , Emmanuel Vincent