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Voice conversion (VC) modifies voice characteristics while preserving linguistic content. This paper presents the Stepback network, a novel model for converting speaker identity using non-parallel data. Unlike traditional VC methods that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Qian Yang , Calbert Graham

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

Emotional Voice Conversion, or emotional VC, is a technique of converting speech from one emotion state into another one, keeping the basic linguistic information and speaker identity. Previous approaches for emotional VC need parallel data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Helen Meng

As a foundational technology for intelligent human-computer interaction, voice conversion (VC) seeks to transform speech from any source timbre into any target timbre. Traditional voice conversion methods based on Generative Adversarial…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wenhan Yao , Fen Xiao , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , YongQiang He , Weiping Wen

Controllable emotional voice conversion (EVC) aims to manipulate emotional expressions to increase the diversity of synthesized speech. Existing methods typically rely on predefined labels, reference audios, or prespecified factor values,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Tianhua Qi , Shiyan Wang , Cheng Lu , Tengfei Song , Hao Yang , Zhanglin Wu , Wenming Zheng

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer the source speaker timbre to arbitrary unseen target speaker timbre, while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Although the voice of generated speech can be controlled by providing the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Junjie Li , Yiwei Guo , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Voice conversion (VC) transforms an utterance to sound like another person without changing the linguistic content. A recently proposed generative adversarial network-based VC method, StarGANv2-VC is very successful in generating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Arnab Das , Suhita Ghosh , Tim Polzehl , Sebastian Stober

Emotional state of a speaker is found to have significant effect in speech production, which can deviate speech from that arising from neutral state. This makes identifying speakers with different emotions a challenging task as generally…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-09 Biswajit Dev Sarma , Rohan Kumar Das

Despite great advances, achieving high-fidelity emotional voice conversion (EVC) with flexible and interpretable control remains challenging. This paper introduces ClapFM-EVC, a novel EVC framework capable of generating high-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yu Pan , Yanni Hu , Yuguang Yang , Jixun Yao , Jianhao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

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

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

Singing voice conversion aims to transform a source singing voice into that of a target singer while preserving the original lyrics, melody, and various vocal techniques. In this paper, we propose a high-fidelity singing voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yiquan Zhou , Wenyu Wang , Hongwu Ding , Jiacheng Xu , Jihua Zhu , Xin Gao , Shihao Li

This paper aims to synthesize the target speaker's speech with desired speaking style and emotion by transferring the style and emotion from reference speech recorded by other speakers. We address this challenging problem with a two-stage…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Xinfa Zhu , Yi Lei , Kun Song , Yongmao Zhang , Tao Li , Lei Xie

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

This paper introduces FastVC, an end-to-end model for fast Voice Conversion (VC). The proposed model can convert speech of arbitrary length from multiple source speakers to multiple target speakers. FastVC is based on a conditional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Oriol Barbany Mayor , Milos Cernak

Voice conversion is a task to convert a non-linguistic feature of a given utterance. Since naturalness of speech strongly depends on its pitch pattern, in some applications, it would be desirable to keep the original rise/fall pitch pattern…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 Chihiro Watanabe , Hirokazu Kameoka

Any-to-any voice conversion (VC) aims to convert the timbre of utterances from and to any speakers seen or unseen during training. Various any-to-any VC approaches have been proposed like AUTOVC, AdaINVC, and FragmentVC. AUTOVC, and AdaINVC…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Jheng-hao Lin , Yist Y. Lin , Chung-Ming Chien , Hung-yi Lee

Voice conversion (VC) is a task that transforms voice from target audio to source without losing linguistic contents, it is challenging especially when source and target speakers are unseen during training (zero-shot VC). Previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shijun Wang , Damian Borth

In real-world voice conversion applications, environmental noise in source speech and user demands for expressive output pose critical challenges. Traditional ASR-based methods ensure noise robustness but suppress prosody richness, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Yuepeng Jiang , Ziqian Ning , Shuai Wang , Chengjia Wang , Mengxiao Bi , Pengcheng Zhu , Zhonghua Fu , Lei Xie

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…