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Emotional voice conversion (EVC) aims to change the emotional state of an utterance while preserving the linguistic content and speaker identity. In this paper, we propose a novel 2-stage training strategy for sequence-to-sequence emotional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Kun Zhou , Berrak Sisman , Haizhou Li

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) seeks to convert the emotional state of an utterance while preserving the linguistic content and speaker identity. In EVC, emotions are usually treated as discrete categories overlooking the fact that speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Kun Zhou , Berrak Sisman , Rajib Rana , Björn W. Schuller , Haizhou Li

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) is one way to generate expressive synthetic speech. Previous approaches mainly focused on modeling one-to-one mapping, i.e., conversion from one emotional state to another emotional state, with Mel-cepstral…

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

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) traditionally targets the transformation of spoken utterances from one emotional state to another, with previous research mainly focusing on discrete emotion categories. This paper departs from the norm by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Kun Zhou , Berrak Sisman , Carlos Busso , Bin Ma , Haizhou Li

Emotional voice conversion (VC) aims to convert a neutral voice to an emotional (e.g. happy) one while retaining the linguistic information and speaker identity. We note that the decoupling of emotional features from other speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Zhaojie Luo , Shoufeng Lin , Rui Liu , Jun Baba , Yuichiro Yoshikawa , Ishiguro Hiroshi

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

Voice conversion (VC) techniques aim to modify speaker identity of an utterance while preserving the underlying linguistic information. Most VC approaches ignore modeling of the speaking style (e.g. emotion and emphasis), which may contain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Shiyin Kang , Na Hu , Xunying Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Helen Meng

Expressive voice conversion (VC) conducts speaker identity conversion for emotional speakers by jointly converting speaker identity and emotional style. Emotional style modeling for arbitrary speakers in expressive VC has not been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Zongyang Du , Junchen Lu , Kun Zhou , Lakshmish Kaushik , Berrak Sisman

The human voice conveys not just words but also emotional states and individuality. Emotional voice conversion (EVC) modifies emotional expressions while preserving linguistic content and speaker identity, improving applications like…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Hsing-Hang Chou , Yun-Shao Lin , Ching-Chin Sung , Yu Tsao , Chi-Chun Lee

Realistic emotional voice conversion (EVC) aims to enhance emotional diversity of converted audios, making the synthesized voices more authentic and natural. To this end, we propose Emotional Intensity-aware Network (EINet), dynamically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Tianhua Qi , Shiyan Wang , Cheng Lu , Yan Zhao , Yuan Zong , Wenming Zheng

Speaker identity is one of the important characteristics of human speech. In voice conversion, we change the speaker identity from one to another, while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Voice conversion involves multiple speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Berrak Sisman , Junichi Yamagishi , Simon King , Haizhou Li

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

Voice conversion (VC) is a task to transform a person's voice to different style while conserving linguistic contents. Previous state-of-the-art on VC is based on sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model, which could mislead linguistic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Tae-Ho Kim , Sungjae Cho , Shinkook Choi , Sejik Park , Soo-Young Lee

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

Expressive voice conversion performs identity conversion for emotional speakers by jointly converting speaker identity and emotional style. Due to the hierarchical structure of speech emotion, it is challenging to disentangle the emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Zongyang Du , Berrak Sisman , Kun Zhou , Haizhou Li

The Emotional Voice Conversion (EVC) aims to convert the discrete emotional state from the source emotion to the target for a given speech utterance while preserving linguistic content. In this paper, we propose regularizing emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Ashishkumar Gudmalwar , Ishan D. Biyani , Nirmesh Shah , Pankaj Wasnik , Rajiv Ratn Shah

This paper presents the sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) baseline system for the voice conversion challenge (VCC) 2020. We consider a naive approach for voice conversion (VC), which is to first transcribe the input speech with an automatic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Shinji Watanabe , Tomoki Toda

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) aims to modify the emotional style of speech while preserving its linguistic content. In practical EVC, controllability, the ability to independently control speaker identity and emotional style using…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jinsung Yoon , Wooyeol Jeong , Jio Gim , Young-Joo Suh

In this paper, a neural network named Sequence-to-sequence ConvErsion NeTwork (SCENT) is presented for acoustic modeling in voice conversion. At training stage, a SCENT model is estimated by aligning the feature sequences of source and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Juan Liu , Yuan Jiang , Li-Rong Dai

Traditional voice conversion(VC) has been focused on speaker identity conversion for speech with a neutral expression. We note that emotional expression plays an essential role in daily communication, and the emotional style of speech can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Zongyang Du , Berrak Sisman , Kun Zhou , Haizhou Li
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