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This paper presents the sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) baseline system for the voice conversion challenge (VCC) 2020. We consider a naive approach for voice conversion (VC), which is to first transcribe the input speech with an automatic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Shinji Watanabe , Tomoki Toda

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

Image-to-image translation is a new field in computer vision with multiple potential applications in the medical domain. However, for supervised image translation frameworks, co-registered datasets, paired in a pixel-wise sense, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Karim Armanious , Chenming Jiang , Sherif Abdulatif , Thomas Küstner , Sergios Gatidis , Bin Yang

Current methods for image-to-image translation produce compelling results, however, the applied transformation is difficult to control, since existing mechanisms are often limited and non-intuitive. We propose ParGAN, a generalization of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Diego Martin Arroyo , Alessio Tonioni , Federico Tombari

In this study, we introduce a new augmentation technique to enhance the resilience of sound event classification (SEC) systems against device variability through the use of CycleGAN. We also present a unique dataset to evaluate this method.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Myeonghoon Ryu , Hongseok Oh , Suji Lee , Han Park

Although diffusion models in text-to-speech have become a popular choice due to their strong generative ability, the intrinsic complexity of sampling from diffusion models harms their efficiency. Alternatively, we propose VoiceFlow, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Yiwei Guo , Chenpeng Du , Ziyang Ma , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Voice Conversion research in recent times has increasingly focused on improving the zero-shot capabilities of existing methods. Despite remarkable advancements, current architectures still tend to struggle in zero-shot cross-lingual…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Advait Joglekar , Divyanshu Singh , Rooshil Rohit Bhatia , S. Umesh

Applying changes to an input speech signal to change the perceived speaker of speech to a target while maintaining the content of the input is a challenging but interesting task known as Voice conversion (VC). Over the last few years, this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Olga Slizovskaia , Jordi Janer , Pritish Chandna , Oscar Mayor

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

Custom voice is to construct a personal speech synthesis system by adapting the source speech synthesis model to the target model through the target few recordings. The solution to constructing a custom voice is to combine an adaptive…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Xin Yuan , Yongbing Feng , Mingming Ye , Cheng Tuo , Minghang Zhang

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

VIS-NIR face recognition remains a challenging task due to the distinction between spectral components of two modalities and insufficient paired training data. Inspired by the CycleGAN, this paper presents a method aiming to translate VIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Huijiao Wang , Li Wang , Xulei Yang , Lei Yu , Haijian Zhang

Whispered speech lacks vocal-fold excitation, making intelligible conversion challenging. We propose WhisperVC, a three-stage framework for low-resource whisper-to-normal (W2N) conversion that decouples cross-domain alignment from speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Dong Liu , Juan Liu , Wei Ju , Yao Tian , Ming Li

Here we present a novel approach to conditioning the SampleRNN generative model for voice conversion (VC). Conventional methods for VC modify the perceived speaker identity by converting between source and target acoustic features. Our…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Cong Zhou , Michael Horgan , Vivek Kumar , Cristina Vasco , Dan Darcy

Voice conversion aims to modify the source speaker's voice to resemble the target speaker while preserving the original speech content. Despite notable advancements in voice conversion these days, multi-lingual voice conversion (including…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Jiawei Huang , Chen Zhang , Yi Ren , Ziyue Jiang , Zhenhui Ye , Jinglin Liu , Jinzheng He , Xiang Yin , Zhou Zhao

Background sound is an informative form of art that is helpful in providing a more immersive experience in real-application voice conversion (VC) scenarios. However, prior research about VC, mainly focusing on clean voices, pay rare…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Jixun Yao , Yi Lei , Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Ziqian Ning , Lei Xie , Hai Li , Junhui Liu , Danming Xie

We propose Universal MelGAN, a vocoder that synthesizes high-fidelity speech in multiple domains. To preserve sound quality when the MelGAN-based structure is trained with a dataset of hundreds of speakers, we added multi-resolution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Won Jang , Dan Lim , Jaesam Yoon

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

In this work, we propose a new mathematical vocoder algorithm(modified spectral inversion) that generates a waveform from acoustic features without phase estimation. The main benefit of using our proposed method is that it excludes the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Hyun Gon Ryu , Jeong-Hoon Kim , Simon See

Unsupervised cross-spectral stereo matching aims at recovering disparity given cross-spectral image pairs without any supervision in the form of ground truth disparity or depth. The estimated depth provides additional information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Mingyang Liang , Xiaoyang Guo , Hongsheng Li , Xiaogang Wang , You Song