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Nowadays, as more and more systems achieve good performance in traditional voice conversion (VC) tasks, people's attention gradually turns to VC tasks under extreme conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel method for zero-shot voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Haozhe Zhang , Zexin Cai , Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li

One-shot voice conversion(VC) aims to change the timbre of any source speech to match that of the target speaker with only one speech sample. Existing style transfer-based VC methods relied on speech representation disentanglement and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Wenhan Yao , Zedong Xing , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , Yongqiang He , Weiping Wen

Voice style transfer, also called voice conversion, seeks to modify one speaker's voice to generate speech as if it came from another (target) speaker. Previous works have made progress on voice conversion with parallel training data and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Siyang Yuan , Pengyu Cheng , Ruiyi Zhang , Weituo Hao , Zhe Gan , Lawrence Carin

Voice conversion (VC) can be achieved by first extracting source content information and target speaker information, and then reconstructing waveform with these information. However, current approaches normally either extract dirty content…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jingyi li , Weiping tu , Li xiao

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transform source speech into arbitrary unseen target voice while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Recent VC methods have made significant progress, but semantic losses in the decoupling…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Linhan Ma , Xinfa Zhu , Yuanjun Lv , Zhichao Wang , Ziqian Wang , Wendi He , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Xie

Voice conversion (VC) systems are widely used for several applications, from speaker anonymisation to personalised speech synthesis. Supervised approaches learn a mapping between different speakers using parallel data, which is expensive to…

Speech signals contain a lot of sensitive information, such as the speaker's identity, which raises privacy concerns when speech data get collected. Speaker anonymization aims to transform a speech signal to remove the source speaker's…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Pierre Champion , Denis Jouvet , Anthony Larcher

The imitation of voice, targeted on specific speech attributes such as timbre and speaking style, is crucial in speech generation. However, existing methods rely heavily on annotated data, and struggle with effectively disentangling timbre…

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert the original speaker's timbre to any target speaker while keeping the linguistic content. Current mainstream zero-shot voice conversion approaches depend on pre-trained recognition models to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yuke Li , Xinfa Zhu , Hanzhao Li , JiXun Yao , WenJie Tian , XiPeng Yang , YunLin Chen , Zhifei Li , Lei Xie

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert a source utterance into the voice of an unseen target speaker while preserving its linguistic content. Although recent systems have improved conversion quality, building zero-shot VC systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Qixi Zheng , Yuxiang Zhao , Tianrui Wang , Wenxi Chen , Kele Xu , Yikang Li , Qinyuan Chen , Xipeng Qiu , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Vector quantization (VQ) transforms continuous image features into discrete representations, providing compressed, tokenized inputs for generative models. However, VQ-based frameworks suffer from several issues, such as non-smooth latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sicheng Yang , Xing Hu , Qiang Wu , Dawei Yang

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

Most current zero-shot voice conversion methods rely on externally supervised components, particularly speaker encoders, for training. To explore alternatives that eliminate this dependency, this paper introduces GenVC, a novel framework…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Zexin Cai , Henry Li Xinyuan , Ashi Garg , Leibny Paola García-Perera , Kevin Duh , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Matthew Wiesner , Nicholas Andrews

Speech tokenization is crucial in digital speech processing, converting continuous speech signals into discrete units for various computational tasks. This paper introduces a novel speech tokenizer with broad applicability across downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Wonjin Jung , Sungil Kang , Dong-Yeon Cho

We present a novel approach to any-to-one (A2O) voice conversion (VC) in a sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) framework. A2O VC aims to convert any speaker, including those unseen during training, to a fixed target speaker. We utilize…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Wen-Chin Huang , Yi-Chiao Wu , Tomoki Hayashi , Tomoki Toda

Voice conversion (VC) aims to modify the speaker's identity while preserving the linguistic content. Commonly, VC methods use an encoder-decoder architecture, where disentangling the speaker's identity from linguistic information is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Philip H. Lee , Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Berrak Sisman

In this paper, we explore vector quantization for acoustic unit discovery. Leveraging unlabelled data, we aim to learn discrete representations of speech that separate phonetic content from speaker-specific details. We propose two neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Benjamin van Niekerk , Leanne Nortje , Herman Kamper

Nowadays, recognition-synthesis-based methods have been quite popular with voice conversion (VC). By introducing linguistics features with good disentangling characters extracted from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, the VC…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Xintao Zhao , Shuai Wang , Yang Chao , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng

This paper presents a novel task, zero-shot voice conversion based on face images (zero-shot FaceVC), which aims at converting the voice characteristics of an utterance from any source speaker to a newly coming target speaker, solely…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zheng-Yan Sheng , Yang Ai , Yan-Nian Chen , Zhen-Hua Ling

Typically, singing voice conversion (SVC) depends on an embedding vector, extracted from either a speaker lookup table (LUT) or a speaker recognition network (SRN), to model speaker identity. However, singing contains more expressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Xu Li , Shansong Liu , Ying Shan