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In this paper, we present an open-source software for developing a nonparallel voice conversion (VC) system named crank. Although we have released an open-source VC software based on the Gaussian mixture model named sprocket in the last VC…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Kazuhiro Kobayashi , Wen-Chin Huang , Yi-Chiao Wu , Patrick Lumban Tobing , Tomoki Hayashi , Tomoki Toda

Voice conversion (VC) stands as a crucial research area in speech synthesis, enabling the transformation of a speaker's vocal characteristics to resemble another while preserving the linguistic content. This technology has broad…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sandipan Dhar , Nanda Dulal Jana , Swagatam Das

This paper presents an end-to-end text-to-speech system with low latency on a CPU, suitable for real-time applications. The system is composed of an autoregressive attention-based sequence-to-sequence acoustic model and the LPCNet vocoder…

This paper presents a method of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion using non-parallel training data. In this method, disentangled linguistic and speaker representations are extracted from acoustic features, and voice conversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

State-of-the-art sequence-to-sequence acoustic networks, that convert a phonetic sequence to a sequence of spectral features with no explicit prosody prediction, generate speech with close to natural quality, when cascaded with neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Slava Shechtman , Carmel Rabinovitz , Alex Sorin , Zvi Kons , Ron Hoory

In this paper, we describe our speech generation system for the first Audio Deep Synthesis Detection Challenge (ADD 2022). Firstly, we build an any-to-many voice conversion (VC) system to convert source speech with arbitrary language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Cheng Wen , Tingwei Guo , Xingjun Tan , Rui Yan , Shuran Zhou , Chuandong Xie , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

Recently, voice conversion (VC) without parallel data has been successfully adapted to multi-target scenario in which a single model is trained to convert the input voice to many different speakers. However, such model suffers from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Ju-chieh Chou , Cheng-chieh Yeh , Hung-yi Lee

Recent advancements in end-to-end neural speech codecs enable compressing audio at extremely low bitrates while maintaining high-fidelity reconstruction. Meanwhile, low computational complexity and low latency are crucial for real-time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Leyan Yang , Ronghui Hu , Yang Xu , Jing Lu

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

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) aims to transform a source singing voice into a target singer while preserving lyrics and melody. Most existing SVC methods depend on F0 extractors to capture the lead melody from clean vocals. However, no…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chen Geng , Meng Chen , Ruohua Zhou , Ruolan Liu , Weifeng Zhao

Phonetic speech transcription is crucial for fine-grained linguistic analysis and downstream speech applications. While Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) is a widely used approach for such tasks due to its efficiency, it often…

Background sound is an informative form of art that is helpful in providing a more immersive experience in real-application voice conversion (VC) scenarios. However, prior research about VC, mainly focusing on clean voices, pay rare…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Jixun Yao , Yi Lei , Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Ziqian Ning , Lei Xie , Hai Li , Junhui Liu , Danming Xie

Recent works in speech recognition rely either on connectionist temporal classification (CTC) or sequence-to-sequence models for character-level recognition. CTC assumes conditional independence of individual characters, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Stavros Petridis , Themos Stafylakis , Pingchuan Ma , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Maja Pantic

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…

Combining end-to-end speech translation (ST) and non-autoregressive (NAR) generation is promising in language and speech processing for their advantages of less error propagation and low latency. In this paper, we investigate the potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Chen Xu , Xiaoqian Liu , Xiaowen Liu , Qingxuan Sun , Yuhao Zhang , Murun Yang , Qianqian Dong , Tom Ko , Mingxuan Wang , Tong Xiao , Anxiang Ma , Jingbo Zhu

Speaking rate refers to the average number of phonemes within some unit time, while the rhythmic patterns refer to duration distributions for realizations of different phonemes within different phonetic structures. Both are key components…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Cheng-chieh Yeh , Po-chun Hsu , Ju-chieh Chou , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

Voice conversion (VC) using deep learning technologies can now generate high quality one-to-many voices and thus has been used in some practical application fields, such as entertainment and healthcare. However, voice conversion can pose…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Qiang Huang

One-shot voice conversion(VC) aims to change the timbre of any source speech to match that of the target speaker with only one speech sample. Existing style transfer-based VC methods relied on speech representation disentanglement and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Wenhan Yao , Zedong Xing , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , Yongqiang He , Weiping Wen

Voice Conversion(VC) refers to changing the timbre of a speech while retaining the discourse content. Recently, many works have focused on disentangle-based learning techniques to separate the timbre and the linguistic content information…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Inspired by recent work on neural network image generation which rely on backpropagation towards the network inputs, we present a proof-of-concept system for speech texture synthesis and voice conversion based on two mechanisms: approximate…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Jan Chorowski , Ron J. Weiss , Rif A. Saurous , Samy Bengio