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We present a novel typical-to-atypical voice conversion approach (DuTa-VC), which (i) can be trained with nonparallel data (ii) first introduces diffusion probabilistic model (iii) preserves the target speaker identity (iv) is aware of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Helin Wang , Thomas Thebaud , Jesus Villalba , Myra Sydnor , Becky Lammers , Najim Dehak , Laureano Moro-Velazquez

Applying changes to an input speech signal to change the perceived speaker of speech to a target while maintaining the content of the input is a challenging but interesting task known as Voice conversion (VC). Over the last few years, this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Olga Slizovskaia , Jordi Janer , Pritish Chandna , Oscar Mayor

The objective of this paper is to learn representations of speaker identity without access to manually annotated data. To do so, we develop a self-supervised learning objective that exploits the natural cross-modal synchrony between faces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Arsha Nagrani , Joon Son Chung , Samuel Albanie , Andrew Zisserman

We propose a neural network for zero-shot voice conversion (VC) without any parallel or transcribed data. Our approach uses pre-trained models for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker embedding, obtained from a speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yurii Rebryk , Stanislav Beliaev

Most existing audio-text retrieval (ATR) approaches typically rely on a single-level interaction to associate audio and text, limiting their ability to align different modalities and leading to suboptimal matches. In this work, we present a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yifei Xin , Zhihong Zhu , Xuxin Cheng , Xusheng Yang , Yuexian Zou

Large intra-class variation is the result of changes in multiple object characteristics. Images, however, only show the superposition of different variable factors such as appearance or shape. Therefore, learning to disentangle and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Dominik Lorenz , Leonard Bereska , Timo Milbich , Björn Ommer

Zero-shot voice conversion is a technique that alters the speaker identity of an input speech to match a target speaker using only a single reference utterance, without requiring additional training. Recent approaches extensively utilize…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Youngjun Sim , Jinsung Yoon , Wooyeol Jeong , Young-Joo Suh

Zero-shot voice conversion aims to transfer the voice of a source speaker to that of a speaker unseen during training, while preserving the content information. Although various methods have been proposed to reconstruct speaker information…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Anastasia Avdeeva , Aleksei Gusev

We present an end-to-end deep network model that performs meeting diarization from single-channel audio recordings. End-to-end diarization models have the advantage of handling speaker overlap and enabling straightforward handling of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Soumi Maiti , Hakan Erdogan , Kevin Wilson , Scott Wisdom , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey

Automatic speech recognition research focuses on training and evaluating on static datasets. Yet, as speech models are increasingly deployed on personal devices, such models encounter user-specific distributional shifts. To simulate this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Anuj Diwan , Ching-Feng Yeh , Wei-Ning Hsu , Paden Tomasello , Eunsol Choi , David Harwath , Abdelrahman Mohamed

The popular frameworks for self-supervised learning of speech representations have largely focused on frame-level masked prediction of speech regions. While this has shown promising downstream task performance for speech recognition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Varun Krishna , Sriram Ganapathy

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

The careful construction of audio representations has become a dominant feature in the design of approaches to many speech tasks. Increasingly, such approaches have emphasized "disentanglement", where a representation contains only parts of…

Disentangling uncorrelated information in speech utterances is a crucial research topic within speech community. Different speech-related tasks focus on extracting distinct speech representations while minimizing the affects of other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Siqi Zheng , Luyao Cheng , Yafeng Chen , Hui Wang , Qian Chen

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

While many recent any-to-any voice conversion models succeed in transferring some target speech's style information to the converted speech, they still lack the ability to faithfully reproduce the speaking style of the target speaker. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Hyungseob Lim , Kyungguen Byun , Sunkuk Moon , Erik Visser

Speech separation aims to separate individual voice from an audio mixture of multiple simultaneous talkers. Although audio-only approaches achieve satisfactory performance, they build on a strategy to handle the predefined conditions,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Peng Zhang , Jiaming Xu , Jing shi , Yunzhe Hao , Bo Xu

Voice conversion has gained increasing popularity in many applications of speech synthesis. The idea is to change the voice identity from one speaker into another while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Many voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Bac Nguyen , Fabien Cardinaux

This paper presents our systems (denoted as T13) for the singing voice conversion challenge (SVCC) 2023. For both in-domain and cross-domain English singing voice conversion (SVC) tasks (Task 1 and Task 2), we adopt a recognition-synthesis…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Ryuichi Yamamoto , Reo Yoneyama , Lester Phillip Violeta , Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Toda

We introduce a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion (VC) model based on the Transformer architecture with text-to-speech (TTS) pretraining. Seq2seq VC models are attractive owing to their ability to convert prosody. While…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Yi-Chiao Wu , Hirokazu Kameoka , Tomoki Toda