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The primary characteristic of robust speaker representations is that they are invariant to factors of variability not related to speaker identity. Disentanglement of speaker representations is one of the techniques used to improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Raghuveer Peri , Haoqi Li , Krishna Somandepalli , Arindam Jati , Shrikanth Narayanan

In realistic speech enhancement settings for end-user devices, we often encounter only a few speakers and noise types that tend to reoccur in the specific acoustic environment. We propose a novel personalized speech enhancement method to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Sunwoo Kim , Minje Kim

Morphing techniques generate artificial biometric samples that combine features from multiple individuals, allowing each contributor to be verified against a single enrolled template. While extensively studied in face recognition, this…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Bharath Krishnamurthy , Ajita Rattani

We propose noise-robust voice conversion (VC) which takes into account the recording quality and environment of noisy source speech. Conventional denoising training improves the noise robustness of a VC model by learning noisy-to-clean VC…

Voice conversion (VC) aims to modify the speaker's timbre while retaining speech content. Previous approaches have tokenized the outputs from self-supervised into semantic tokens, facilitating disentanglement of speech content information.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhengyang Chen , Shuai Wang , Mingyang Zhang , Xuechen Liu , Junichi Yamagishi , Yanmin Qian

The problem of audio-to-audio (A2A) style transfer involves replacing the style features of the source audio with those from the target audio while preserving the content related attributes of the source audio. In this paper, we propose an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Soumya Dutta , Sriram Ganapathy

Though significant progress has been made for the voice conversion (VC) of typical speech, VC for atypical speech, e.g., dysarthric and second-language (L2) speech, remains a challenge, since it involves correcting for atypical prosody…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Disong Wang , Songxiang Liu , Lifa Sun , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Voice conversion (VC) can be achieved by first extracting source content information and target speaker information, and then reconstructing waveform with these information. However, current approaches normally either extract dirty content…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jingyi li , Weiping tu , Li xiao

With the help of discrete neural audio codecs, large language models (LLM) have increasingly been recognized as a promising methodology for zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis. However, sampling based decoding strategies bring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Bing Han , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Sanyuan Chen , Lingwei Meng , Yanming Qian , Yanqing Liu , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li , Furu Wei

Tools to generate high quality synthetic speech signal that is perceptually indistinguishable from speech recorded from human speakers are easily available. Several approaches have been proposed for detecting synthetic speech. Many of these…

In recent years, the rapid progress in speaker verification (SV) technology has been driven by the extraction of speaker representations based on deep learning. However, such representations are still vulnerable to emotion variability. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jingguang Tian , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

Zero-shot Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis shows great promise for personalized voice customization through voice cloning. However, current methods for achieving zero-shot TTS heavily rely on large model scales and extensive training datasets…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Qianniu Chen , Xiaoyang Hao , Bowen Li , Yue Liu , Li Lu

Disentangled representation learning in speech processing has lagged behind other domains, largely due to the lack of datasets with annotated generative factors for robust evaluation. To address this, we propose SynSpeech, a novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Yusuf Brima , Ulf Krumnack , Simone Pika , Gunther Heidemann

The information bottleneck auto-encoder is a tool for disentanglement commonly used for voice transformation. The successful disentanglement relies on the right choice of bottleneck size. Previous bottleneck auto-encoders created the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Frederik Bous , Axel Roebel

In this paper, we introduce a zero-shot Voice Transfer (VT) module that can be seamlessly integrated into a multi-lingual Text-to-speech (TTS) system to transfer an individual's voice across languages. Our proposed VT module comprises a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Fadi Biadsy , Youzheng Chen , Isaac Elias , Kyle Kastner , Gary Wang , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Voice conversion technologies have been greatly improved in recent years with the help of deep learning, but their capabilities of producing natural sounding utterances in different conditions remain unclear. In this paper, we gave a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Tzu-hsien Huang , Jheng-hao Lin , Chien-yu Huang , Hung-yi Lee

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

Voice conversion (VC) consists of digitally altering the voice of an individual to manipulate part of its content, primarily its identity, while maintaining the rest unchanged. Research in neural VC has accomplished considerable…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Laurent Benaroya , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

Contrastive speaker embedding assumes that the contrast between the positive and negative pairs of speech segments is attributed to speaker identity only. However, this assumption is incorrect because speech signals contain not only speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Youzhi Tu , Man-Wai Mak , Jen-Tzung Chien

Any-to-any voice conversion problem aims to convert voices for source and target speakers, which are out of the training data. Previous works wildly utilize the disentangle-based models. The disentangle-based model assumes the speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Qiqi Wang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao