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Non-parallel voice conversion (VC) is a technique for training voice converters without a parallel corpus. Cycle-consistent adversarial network-based VCs (CycleGAN-VC and CycleGAN-VC2) are widely accepted as benchmark methods. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Nobukatsu Hojo

Voice conversion (VC) aims at conversion of speaker characteristic without altering content. Due to training data limitations and modeling imperfections, it is difficult to achieve believable speaker mimicry without introducing processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-05 Tomi Kinnunen , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba , Junichi Yamagishi , Tomoki Toda , Daisuke Saito , Fernando Villavicencio , Zhenhua Ling

Existing Voice Cloning (VC) tasks aim to convert a paragraph text to a speech with desired voice specified by a reference audio. This has significantly boosted the development of artificial speech applications. However, there also exist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Qi Chen , Yuanqing Li , Yuankai Qi , Jiaqiu Zhou , Mingkui Tan , Qi Wu

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) 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

This paper focuses on using voice conversion (VC) to improve the speech intelligibility of surgical patients who have had parts of their articulators removed. Due to the difficulty of data collection, VC without parallel data is highly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-26 Li-Wei Chen , Hung-Yi Lee , Yu Tsao

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

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

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

Non-parallel voice conversion (VC) is typically achieved using lossy representations of the source speech. However, ensuring only speaker identity information is dropped whilst all other information from the source speech is retained is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Thomas Merritt , Abdelhamid Ezzerg , Piotr Biliński , Magdalena Proszewska , Kamil Pokora , Roberto Barra-Chicote , Daniel Korzekwa

Singing voice conversion is a task to convert a song sang by a source singer to the voice of a target singer. In this paper, we propose using a parallel data free, many-to-one voice conversion technique on singing voices. A phonetic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-12 Xin Chen , Wei Chu , Jinxi Guo , Ning Xu

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

Voice conversion is to generate a new speech with the source content and a target voice style. In this paper, we focus on one general setting, i.e., non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion, which is close to the real-world scenario. As…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jian Ma , Zhedong Zheng , Hao Fei , Feng Zheng , Tat-seng Chua , Yi Yang

We propose a new paradigm for maintaining speaker identity in dysarthric voice conversion (DVC). The poor quality of dysarthric speech can be greatly improved by statistical VC, but as the normal speech utterances of a dysarthria patient…

Previously, we introduced VoiceGrad, a nonparallel voice conversion (VC) technique enabling mel-spectrogram conversion from source to target speakers using a score-based diffusion model. The concept involves training a score network to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Hirokazu Kameoka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

In this paper, we propose a model to perform style transfer of speech to singing voice. Contrary to the previous signal processing-based methods, which require high-quality singing templates or phoneme synchronization, we explore a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Shrutina Agarwal , Sriram Ganapathy , Naoya Takahashi

In this paper, we propose a novel voice conversion strategy to resolve the mismatch between the training and conversion scenarios when parallel speech corpus is unavailable for training. Based on auto-encoder and disentanglement frameworks,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Yoohwan Kwon , Soo-Whan Chung , Hee-Soo Heo , Hong-Goo Kang

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

Animal vocalization denoising is a task similar to human speech enhancement, which is relatively well-studied. In contrast to the latter, it comprises a higher diversity of sound production mechanisms and recording environments, and this…

This paper proposes a new task called spatial voice conversion, which aims to convert a target voice while preserving spatial information and non-target signals. Traditional voice conversion methods focus on single-channel waveforms,…