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Voice conversion has gained increasing popularity in many applications of speech synthesis. The idea is to change the voice identity from one speaker into another while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Many voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Bac Nguyen , Fabien Cardinaux

Although state-of-the-art parallel WaveNet has addressed the issue of real-time waveform generation, there remains problems. Firstly, due to the noisy input signal of the model, there is still a gap between the quality of generated and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Qiao Tian , Xucheng Wan , Shan Liu

We propose AudioStyleGAN (ASGAN), a new generative adversarial network (GAN) for unconditional speech synthesis. As in the StyleGAN family of image synthesis models, ASGAN maps sampled noise to a disentangled latent vector which is then…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Matthew Baas , Herman Kamper

When trained on multimodal image datasets, normal Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are usually outperformed by class-conditional GANs and ensemble GANs, but conditional GANs is restricted to labeled datasets and ensemble GANs lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Haifeng Shi , Guanyu Cai , Yuqin Wang , Shaohua Shang , Lianghua He

We present the Voice Conversion Challenge 2018, designed as a follow up to the 2016 edition with the aim of providing a common framework for evaluating and comparing different state-of-the-art voice conversion (VC) systems. The objective of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-13 Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba , Junichi Yamagishi , Tomoki Toda , Daisuke Saito , Fernando Villavicencio , Tomi Kinnunen , Zhenhua Ling

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

In recent years, large-scale pre-trained speech language models (SLMs) have demonstrated remarkable advancements in various generative speech modeling applications, such as text-to-speech synthesis, voice conversion, and speech enhancement.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

In the generator of typical Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), a noise is inputted to generate fake samples via a series of convolutional operations. However, current noise generation models merely relies on the information from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Shaoning Zeng , Bob Zhang

Non-parallel voice conversion (VC) is a technique for learning mappings between source and target speeches without using a parallel corpus. Recently, cycle-consistent adversarial network (CycleGAN)-VC and CycleGAN-VC2 have shown promising…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Nobukatsu Hojo

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in image-to-image translation for two domains. However, existing approaches have limited scalability and robustness in handling more than two domains, since different models should be built…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Yunjey Choi , Minje Choi , Munyoung Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Sunghun Kim , Jaegul Choo

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

We present a novel high-fidelity real-time neural vocoder called VocGAN. A recently developed GAN-based vocoder, MelGAN, produces speech waveforms in real-time. However, it often produces a waveform that is insufficient in quality or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Jinhyeok Yang , Junmo Lee , Youngik Kim , Hoonyoung Cho , Injung Kim

Adversarial waveform generation has been a popular approach as the backend of singing voice conversion (SVC) to generate high-quality singing audio. However, the instability of GAN also leads to other problems, such as pitch jitters and U/V…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Haohan Guo , Zhiping Zhou , Fanbo Meng , Kai Liu

Recently, GAN based speech synthesis methods, such as MelGAN, have become very popular. Compared to conventional autoregressive based methods, parallel structures based generators make waveform generation process fast and stable. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Qiao Tian , Yi Chen , Zewang Zhang , Heng Lu , Linghui Chen , Lei Xie , Shan Liu

This paper proposes a source-filter-based generative adversarial neural vocoder named SF-GAN, which achieves high-fidelity waveform generation from input acoustic features by introducing F0-based source excitation signals to a neural filter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Ye-Xin Lu , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

This paper proposes Scyclone, a high-quality voice conversion (VC) technique without parallel data training. Scyclone improves speech naturalness and speaker similarity of the converted speech by introducing CycleGAN-based spectrogram…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Masaya Tanaka , Takashi Nose , Aoi Kanagaki , Ryohei Shimizu , Akira Ito

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

Recent advancement in Generative Adversarial Networks in speech synthesis domain[3],[2] have shown, that it's possible to train GANs [8] in a reliable manner for high quality coherent waveform generation from mel-spectograms. We propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Luka Chkhetiani , Levan Bejanidze

Text-to-audio (TTA) generation can significantly benefit the media industry by reducing production costs and enhancing work efficiency. However, most current TTA models (primarily diffusion-based) suffer from slow inference speeds and high…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-30 HaeChun Chung

Primary goal of an emotional voice conversion (EVC) system is to convert the emotion of a given speech signal from one style to another style without modifying the linguistic content of the signal. Most of the state-of-the-art approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Nirmesh Shah , Mayank Kumar Singh , Naoya Takahashi , Naoyuki Onoe