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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are machine learning networks based around creating synthetic data. Voice Conversion (VC) is a subset of voice translation that involves translating the paralinguistic features of a source speaker to a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Samuel J. Broughton , Md Asif Jalal , Roger K. Moore

Voice conversion (VC) using sequence-to-sequence learning of context posterior probabilities is proposed. Conventional VC using shared context posterior probabilities predicts target speech parameters from the context posterior…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hiroyuki Miyoshi , Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Factorizing speech as disentangled speech representations is vital to achieve highly controllable style transfer in voice conversion (VC). Conventional speech representation learning methods in VC only factorize speech as speaker and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Jie Wang , Jingbei Li , Xintao Zhao , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Helen Meng

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

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

Voice conversion is the task to transform voice characteristics of source speech while preserving content information. Nowadays, self-supervised representation learning models are increasingly utilized in content extraction. However, in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yimin Deng , Jianzong Wang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

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

We propose a flexible framework that deals with both singer conversion and singers vocal technique conversion. The proposed model is trained on non-parallel corpora, accommodates many-to-many conversion, and leverages recent advances of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Yin-Jyun Luo , Chin-Chen Hsu , Kat Agres , Dorien Herremans

The goal of voice conversion is to transform the speech of a source speaker to sound like that of a reference speaker while preserving the original content. A key challenge is to extract disentangled linguistic content from the source and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jaehun Kim , Ji-Hoon Kim , Yeunju Choi , Tan Dat Nguyen , Seongkyu Mun , Joon Son Chung

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

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

Neural audio codecs (NACs), which use neural networks to generate compact audio representations, have garnered interest for their applicability to many downstream tasks -- especially quantized codecs due to their compatibility with large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Ryo Aihara , Yoshiki Masuyama , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Jonathan Le Roux

The goal of voice conversion (VC) is to convert input voice to match the target speaker's voice while keeping text and prosody intact. VC is usually used in entertainment and speaking-aid systems, as well as applied for speech data…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 A. Kashkin , I. Karpukhin , S. Shishkin

Voice conversion (VC) is a task to transform a person's voice to different style while conserving linguistic contents. Previous state-of-the-art on VC is based on sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model, which could mislead linguistic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Tae-Ho Kim , Sungjae Cho , Shinkook Choi , Sejik Park , Soo-Young Lee

Voice conversion is a task of synthesizing an utterance with target speaker's voice while maintaining linguistic information of the source utterance. While a speaker can produce varying utterances from a single script with different…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Soobin Suh , Dabi Ahn , Heewoong Park , Jonghun Park

As experts in voice modification, trans-feminine gender-affirming voice teachers have unique perspectives on voice that confound current understandings of speaker identity. To demonstrate this, we present the Versatile Voice Dataset (VVD),…

Unsupervised Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (VC) aims to modify the speaker characteristic of an utterance to match an unseen target speaker without relying on parallel training data. Recently, self-supervised learning of speech representation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Trung Dang , Dung Tran , Peter Chin , Kazuhito Koishida

Recently, voice conversion (VC) has been widely studied. Many VC systems use disentangle-based learning techniques to separate the speaker and the linguistic content information from a speech signal. Subsequently, they convert the voice by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Yen-Hao Chen , Da-Yi Wu , Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-yi Lee

Voice conversion is to generate a new speech with the source content and a target voice style. In this paper, we focus on one general setting, i.e., non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion, which is close to the real-world scenario. As…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jian Ma , Zhedong Zheng , Hao Fei , Feng Zheng , Tat-seng Chua , Yi Yang

Voice conversion (VC) could be used to improve speech recognition systems in low-resource languages by using it to augment limited training data. However, VC has not been widely used for this purpose because of practical issues such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Matthew Baas , Herman Kamper