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This paper presents an advanced end-to-end singing voice synthesis (SVS) system based on the source-filter mechanism that directly translates lyrical and melodic cues into expressive and high-fidelity human-like singing. Similarly to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Jianwei Cui , Yu Gu , Chao Weng , Jie Zhang , Liping Chen , Lirong Dai

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

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is essential for effective human-machine interaction, aiming to identify speakers' emotional states in multi-turn dialogues. Early text-based methods struggle with complex scenarios like sarcasm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Linan ZHU , Zihao Zhai , Xiao Han , Yuqian Fu , Xiangfan Chen , Xiangjie Kong , Guojiang Shen

This paper presents the T02 team's system for the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2023 (SVCC2023). Our system entails a VITS-based SVC model, incorporating three modules: a feature extractor, a voice converter, and a post-processor.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yiquan Zhou , Meng Chen , Yi Lei , Jihua Zhu , Weifeng Zhao

This paper introduces voice reenactement as the task of voice conversion (VC) in which the expressivity of the source speaker is preserved during conversion while the identity of a target speaker is transferred. To do so, an original…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Frederik Bous , Laurent Benaroya , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

A singing voice conversion model converts a song in the voice of an arbitrary source singer to the voice of a target singer. Recently, methods that leverage self-supervised audio representations such as HuBERT and Wav2Vec 2.0 have helped…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Tejas Jayashankar , Jilong Wu , Leda Sari , David Kant , Vimal Manohar , Qing He

Recently, audio-visual speech enhancement has been tackled in the unsupervised settings based on variational auto-encoders (VAEs), where during training only clean data is used to train a generative model for speech, which at test time is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Mostafa Sadeghi , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

As voice assistants (VAs) become increasingly integrated into daily life, the need for emotion-aware systems that can recognize and respond appropriately to user emotions has grown. While significant progress has been made in speech emotion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yong Ma , Yuchong Zhang , Di Fu , Stephanie Zubicueta Portales , Danica Kragic , Morten Fjeld

Streaming voice conversion has become increasingly popular for its potential in real-time applications. The recently proposed DualVC 2 has achieved robust and high-quality streaming voice conversion with a latency of about 180ms.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Ziqian Ning , Shuai Wang , Pengcheng Zhu , Zhichao Wang , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie , Mengxiao Bi

Audio deepfake is so sophisticated that the lack of effective detection methods is fatal. While most detection systems primarily rely on low-level acoustic features or pretrained speech representations, they frequently neglect high-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xiaokang Li , Yicheng Gong , Dinghao Zou , Xin Cao , Sunbowen Lee

Speech foundation models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in speech-related tasks. Nevertheless, these models often struggle with non-verbal audio data, such as vocalizations, baby crying, etc., which are critical for various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Alkis Koudounas , Moreno La Quatra , Marco Sabato Siniscalchi , Elena Baralis

Melody preservation is crucial in singing voice conversion (SVC). However, in many scenarios, audio is often accompanied with background music (BGM), which can cause audio distortion and interfere with the extraction of melody and other key…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Wei Chen , Binzhu Sha , Jing Yang , Zhuo Wang , Fan Fan , Zhiyong Wu

We introduce HybridVC, a voice conversion (VC) framework built upon a pre-trained conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE) that combines the strengths of a latent model with contrastive learning. HybridVC supports text and audio prompts,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Xinlei Niu , Jing Zhang , Charles Patrick Martin

This paper presents FastSVC, a light-weight cross-domain singing voice conversion (SVC) system, which can achieve high conversion performance, with inference speed 4x faster than real-time on CPUs. FastSVC uses Conformer-based phoneme…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Na Hu , Dan Su , Helen Meng

One-shot voice conversion aims to change the timbre of any source speech to match that of the unseen target speaker with only one speech sample. Existing methods face difficulties in satisfactory speech representation disentanglement and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Pengcheng Li , Jianzong Wang , Xulong Zhang , Yong Zhang , Jing Xiao , Ning Cheng

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

This paper presents a new voice conversion (VC) framework capable of dealing with both additive noise and reverberation, and its performance evaluation. There have been studied some VC researches focusing on real-world circumstances where…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yeonjong Choi , Chao Xie , Tomoki Toda

In this work, we explore the dependencies between speaker recognition and emotion recognition. We first show that knowledge learned for speaker recognition can be reused for emotion recognition through transfer learning. Then, we show the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Raghavendra Pappagari , Tianzi Wang , Jesus Villalba , Nanxin Chen , Najim Dehak

Speech-driven 3D face animation aims to generate realistic facial expressions that match the speech content and emotion. However, existing methods often neglect emotional facial expressions or fail to disentangle them from speech content.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Ziqiao Peng , Haoyu Wu , Zhenbo Song , Hao Xu , Xiangyu Zhu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

The ideal goal of voice conversion is to convert the source speaker's speech to sound naturally like the target speaker while maintaining the linguistic content and the prosody of the source speech. However, current approaches are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Qicong Xie , Shan Yang , Yi Lei , Lei Xie , Dan Su