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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

Speech quality estimation has recently undergone a paradigm shift from human-hearing expert designs to machine-learning models. However, current models rely mainly on supervised learning, which is time-consuming and expensive for label…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Szu-Wei Fu , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Yu Tsao , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Disentangling content and speaking style information is essential for zero-shot non-parallel voice conversion (VC). Our previous study investigated a novel framework with disentangled sequential variational autoencoder (DSVAE) as the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Jiachen Lian , Chunlei Zhang , Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli , Dong Yu

This work examines the content and usefulness of disentangled phone and speaker representations from two separately trained VQ-VAE systems: one trained on multilingual data and another trained on monolingual data. We explore the multi- and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Jennifer Williams , Jason Fong , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi

We present a unified system to realize one-shot voice conversion (VC) on the pitch, rhythm, and speaker attributes. Existing works generally ignore the correlation between prosody and language content, leading to the degradation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Li-Wei Chen , Shinji Watanabe , Alexander Rudnicky

Traditional voice conversion (VC) methods typically attempt to separate speaker identity and linguistic information into distinct representations, which are then combined to reconstruct the audio. However, effectively disentangling these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Huu Tuong Tu , Huan Vu , cuong tien nguyen , Dien Hy Ngo , Nguyen Thi Thu Trang

Cross-lingual voice conversion (VC) is a task that aims to synthesize target voices with the same content while source and target speakers speak in different languages. Its challenge lies in the fact that the source and target data are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Che-Jui Chang

In this work, we propose a zero-shot voice conversion method using speech representations trained with self-supervised learning. First, we develop a multi-task model to decompose a speech utterance into features such as linguistic content,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Shehzeen Hussain , Paarth Neekhara , Jocelyn Huang , Jason Li , Boris Ginsburg

Though significant progress has been made for speaker-dependent Video-to-Speech (VTS) synthesis, little attention is devoted to multi-speaker VTS that can map silent video to speech, while allowing flexible control of speaker identity, all…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Disong Wang , Shan Yang , Dan Su , Xunying Liu , Dong Yu , Helen Meng

Text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) are two different tasks both aiming at generating high quality speaking voice according to different input modality. Due to their similarity, this paper proposes UnifySpeech, which brings TTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Haogeng Liu , Tao Wang , Ruibo Fu , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao

Voice conversion (VC) aims at altering a person's voice to make it sound similar to the voice of another person while preserving linguistic content. Existing methods suffer from a dilemma between content intelligibility and speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Siyuan Shan , Yang Li , Amartya Banerjee , Junier B. Oliva

Identity, accent, style, and emotions are essential components of human speech. Voice conversion (VC) techniques process the speech signals of two input speakers and other modalities of auxiliary information such as prompts and emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Xining Song , Zhihua Wei , Rui Wang , Haixiao Hu , Yanxiang Chen , Meng Han

Voice Conversion (VC) is a technique that aims to transform the non-linguistic information of a source utterance to change the perceived identity of the speaker. While there is a rich literature on VC, most proposed methods are trained and…

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

Zero-shot voice conversion aims to transfer the voice of a source speaker to that of a speaker unseen during training, while preserving the content information. Although various methods have been proposed to reconstruct speaker information…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Anastasia Avdeeva , Aleksei Gusev

With advances in deep learning, neural network based speech enhancement (SE) has developed rapidly in the last decade. Meanwhile, the self-supervised pre-trained model and vector quantization (VQ) have achieved excellent performance on many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Xiao-Ying Zhao , Qiu-Shi Zhu , Jie Zhang

Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (VC) aims to transform the source speaker's timbre into an arbitrary unseen one while retaining speech content. Most prior work focuses on preserving the source's prosody, while fine-grained timbre information may…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Jialong Zuo , Shengpeng Ji , Minghui Fang , Mingze Li , Ziyue Jiang , Xize Cheng , Xiaoda Yang , Chen Feiyang , Xinyu Duan , Zhou Zhao

Building cross-lingual voice conversion (VC) systems for multiple speakers and multiple languages has been a challenging task for a long time. This paper describes a parallel non-autoregressive network to achieve bilingual and code-switched…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Yaogen Yang , Haozhe Zhang , Xiaoyi Qin , Shanshan Liang , Huahua Cui , Mingyang Xu , Ming Li

Voice Conversion (VC) converts the voice of a source speech to that of a target while maintaining the source's content. Speech can be mainly decomposed into four components: content, timbre, rhythm and pitch. Unfortunately, most related…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Zhonghua Liu , Shijun Wang , Ning Chen

Any-to-any voice conversion problem aims to convert voices for source and target speakers, which are out of the training data. Previous works wildly utilize the disentangle-based models. The disentangle-based model assumes the speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Qiqi Wang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao