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Popular neural network-based speech enhancement systems operate on the magnitude spectrogram and ignore the phase mismatch between the noisy and clean speech signals. Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) show promise in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Deepak Baby

We propose SelfVC, a training strategy to iteratively improve a voice conversion model with self-synthesized examples. Previous efforts on voice conversion focus on factorizing speech into explicitly disentangled representations that…

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

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

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

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

Voice conversion (VC) models have demonstrated impressive few-shot conversion quality on the clean, native speech populations they're trained on. However, when source or target speech accents, background noise conditions, or microphone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Avani Tanna , Michael Saxon , Amr El Abbadi , William Yang Wang

This paper shows that StarGAN-VC, a spectral envelope transformation method for non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion (VC), is capable of emotional VC (EVC). Although StarGAN-VC has been shown to enable speaker identity conversion, its…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Asuka Moritani , Ryo Ozaki , Shoki Sakamoto , Hirokazu Kameoka , Tadahiro Taniguchi

For deep learning-based speech enhancement (SE) systems, the training-test acoustic mismatch can cause notable performance degradation. To address the mismatch issue, numerous noise adaptation strategies have been derived. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Chi-Chang Lee , Cheng-Hung Hu , Yu-Chen Lin , Chu-Song Chen , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

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

Joint training of speech enhancement model (SE) and speech recognition model (ASR) is a common solution for robust ASR in noisy environments. SE focuses on improving the auditory quality of speech, but the enhanced feature distribution is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Tianrui Wang , Weibin Zhu , Yingying Gao , Junlan Feng , Shilei Zhang

We propose TES-VC (Text-driven Environment and Speaker controllable Voice Conversion), a text-driven voice conversion framework with independent control of speaker timbre and environmental acoustics. TES-VC processes simultaneous text…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jiawei Jin , Zhihan Yang , Yixuan Zhou , Zhiyong Wu

Speech enhancement is a task to improve the intelligibility and perceptual quality of degraded speech signal. Recently, neural networks based methods have been applied to speech enhancement. However, many neural network based methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Qiuqiang Kong , Haohe Liu , Xingjian Du , Li Chen , Rui Xia , Yuxuan Wang

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

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

The human brain contextually exploits heterogeneous sensory information to efficiently perform cognitive tasks including vision and hearing. For example, during the cocktail party situation, the human auditory cortex contextually integrates…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Amir Hussain

This work adapts two recent architectures of generative models and evaluates their effectiveness for the conversion of whispered speech to normal speech. We incorporate the normal target speech into the training criterion of…

Training a semi-supervised end-to-end speech recognition system using noisy student training has significantly improved performance. However, this approach requires a substantial amount of paired speech-text and unlabeled speech, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Chia-Yu Li , Ngoc Thang Vu

Deep learning has become a de facto method of choice for speech enhancement tasks with significant improvements in speech quality. However, real-time processing with reduced size and computations for low-power edge devices drastically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Monisankha Pal , Arvind Ramanathan , Ted Wada , Ashutosh Pandey

The research in Environmental Sound Classification (ESC) has been progressively growing with the emergence of deep learning algorithms. However, data scarcity poses a major hurdle for any huge advance in this domain. Data augmentation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Aswathy Madhu , Suresh K