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Cross-lingual voice conversion (CLVC) is a quite challenging task since the source and target speakers speak different languages. This paper proposes a CLVC framework based on bottleneck features and deep neural network (DNN). In the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-12 M Kiran Reddy , K Sreenivasa Rao

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

In this work, we propose a joint system combining a talking face generation system with a text-to-speech system that can generate multilingual talking face videos from only the text input. Our system can synthesize natural multilingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Hyoung-Kyu Song , Sang Hoon Woo , Junhyeok Lee , Seungmin Yang , Hyunjae Cho , Youseong Lee , Dongho Choi , Kang-wook Kim

One-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert speech from any source speaker to an arbitrary target speaker with only a few seconds of reference speech from the target speaker. This relies heavily on disentangling the speaker's identity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

We introduce a novel speech synthesis system, called NAUTILUS, that can generate speech with a target voice either from a text input or a reference utterance of an arbitrary source speaker. By using a multi-speaker speech corpus to train…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi

While neural methods for text-to-speech (TTS) have shown great advances in modeling multiple speakers, even in zero-shot settings, the amount of data needed for those approaches is generally not feasible for the vast majority of the world's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Florian Lux , Julia Koch , Ngoc Thang Vu

This paper presents a cross-lingual voice conversion framework that adopts a modularized neural network. The modularized neural network has a common input structure that is shared for both languages, and two separate output modules, one for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Yi Zhou , Xiaohai Tian , Emre Yılmaz , Rohan Kumar Das , Haizhou Li

This paper proposes a voice conversion (VC) method using sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq or S2S) learning, which flexibly converts not only the voice characteristics but also the pitch contour and duration of input speech. The proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Damian Kwasny , Takuhiro Kaneko , Nobukatsu Hojo

Voice conversion is a challenging task which transforms the voice characteristics of a source speaker to a target speaker without changing linguistic content. Recently, there have been many works on many-to-many Voice Conversion (VC) based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Manh Luong , Viet Anh Tran

Neural TTS has shown it can generate high quality synthesized speech. In this paper, we investigate the multi-speaker latent space to improve neural TTS for adapting the system to new speakers with only several minutes of speech or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Yan Deng , Lei He , Frank Soong

In cross-lingual speech synthesis, the speech in various languages can be synthesized for a monoglot speaker. Normally, only the data of monoglot speakers are available for model training, thus the speaker similarity is relatively low…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-21 J. Yang , Lei He

Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis plays an important role in human-computer interaction. Currently, most TTS technologies focus on the naturalness of speech, namely,making the speeches sound like humans. However, the key tasks of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jinyin Chen , Linhui Ye , Zhaoyan Ming

Previous multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) approaches have considered leveraging monolingual speaker data to enable cross-lingual speech synthesis. However, such data-efficient approaches have ignored synthesizing emotional aspects of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Xinfa Zhu , Yi Lei , Tao Li , Yongmao Zhang , Hongbin Zhou , Heng Lu , Lei Xie

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

Recent works on voice conversion (VC) focus on preserving the rhythm and the intonation as well as the linguistic content. To preserve these features from the source, we decompose current non-parallel VC systems into two encoders and one…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Kang-wook Kim , Seung-won Park , Junhyeok Lee , Myun-chul Joe

Vocoders received renewed attention as main components in statistical parametric text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis and speech transformation systems. Even though there are vocoding techniques give almost accepted synthesized speech, their high…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi , Tamás Gábor Csapó , Géza Németh

We propose a linear prediction (LP)-based waveform generation method via WaveNet vocoding framework. A WaveNet-based neural vocoder has significantly improved the quality of parametric text-to-speech (TTS) systems. However, it is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Min-Jae Hwang , Frank Soong , Eunwoo Song , Xi Wang , Hyeonjoo Kang , Hong-Goo Kang

Flow-matching-based text-to-speech (TTS) models have shown high-quality speech synthesis. However, most current flow-matching-based TTS models still rely on reference transcripts corresponding to the audio prompt for synthesis. This…

Humans are adept at leveraging visual cues from lip movements for recognizing speech in adverse listening conditions. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) models follow similar approach to achieve robust speech recognition in noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Maxime Burchi , Krishna C. Puvvada , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg , Radu Timofte

This study aims at designing an environment-aware text-to-speech (TTS) system that can generate speech to suit specific acoustic environments. It is also motivated by the desire to leverage massive data of speech audio from heterogeneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Daxin Tan , Guangyan Zhang , Tan Lee