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We present a method for converting the voices between a set of speakers. Our method is based on training multiple autoencoder paths, where there is a single speaker-independent encoder and multiple speaker-dependent decoders. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Orhan Ocal , Oguz H. Elibol , Gokce Keskin , Cory Stephenson , Anil Thomas , Kannan Ramchandran

This paper describes an end-to-end adversarial singing voice conversion (EA-SVC) approach. It can directly generate arbitrary singing waveform by given phonetic posteriorgram (PPG) representing content, F0 representing pitch, and speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Haohan Guo , Heng Lu , Na Hu , Chunlei Zhang , Shan Yang , Lei Xie , Dan Su , Dong Yu

Voice conversion aims to convert source speech into a target voice using recordings of the target speaker as a reference. Newer models are producing increasingly realistic output. But what happens when models are fed with non-standard data,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Matthew Baas , Herman Kamper

Current approaches have made great progress on image-to-image translation tasks benefiting from the success of image synthesis methods especially generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, existing methods are limited to handling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Ziqiang Zheng , Zhibin Yu , Haiyong Zheng , Yang Wu , Bing Zheng , Ping Lin

One of the obstacles in many-to-many voice conversion is the requirement of the parallel training data, which contain pairs of utterances with the same linguistic content spoken by different speakers. Since collecting such parallel data is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Keonnyeong Lee , In-Chul Yoo , Dongsuk Yook

Generative adversarial nets (GAN) has been successfully introduced for generating text to alleviate the exposure bias. However, discriminators in these models only evaluate the entire sequence, which causes feedback sparsity and mode…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Xingyuan Chen , Yanzhe Li , Peng Jin , Jiuhua Zhang , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen , Gang Song

Voice conversion (VC) systems are widely used for several applications, from speaker anonymisation to personalised speech synthesis. Supervised approaches learn a mapping between different speakers using parallel data, which is expensive to…

In this paper, we compare different audio signal representations, including the raw audio waveform and a variety of time-frequency representations, for the task of audio synthesis with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We conduct the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 Javier Nistal , Stefan Lattner , Gaël Richard

In recent years, neural vocoders have surpassed classical speech generation approaches in naturalness and perceptual quality of the synthesized speech. Computationally heavy models like WaveNet and WaveGlow achieve best results, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Ahmed Mustafa , Nicola Pia , Guillaume Fuchs

Despite remarkable success in image-to-image translation that celebrates the advancements of generative adversarial networks (GANs), very limited attempts are known for video domain translation. We study the task of video-to-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Michail C. Doukas , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

Generative adversarial network (GAN) models can synthesize highquality audio signals while ensuring fast sample generation. However, they are difficult to train and are prone to several issues including mode collapse and divergence. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Teysir Baoueb , Haocheng Liu , Mathieu Fontaine , Jonathan Le Roux , Gael Richard

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

Recent advances in neural network -based text-to-speech have reached human level naturalness in synthetic speech. The present sequence-to-sequence models can directly map text to mel-spectrogram acoustic features, which are convenient for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Lauri Juvela , Bajibabu Bollepalli , Junichi Yamagishi , Paavo Alku

Despite recent progress in generative adversarial network (GAN)-based vocoders, where the model generates raw waveform conditioned on acoustic features, it is challenging to synthesize high-fidelity audio for numerous speakers across…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Sang-gil Lee , Wei Ping , Boris Ginsburg , Bryan Catanzaro , Sungroh Yoon

Speech enhancement aims to obtain speech signals with high intelligibility and quality from noisy speech. Recent work has demonstrated the excellent performance of time-domain deep learning methods, such as Conv-TasNet. However, these…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Feiyang Xiao , Jian Guan , Qiuqiang Kong , Wenwu Wang

The speech enhancement task usually consists of removing additive noise or reverberation that partially mask spoken utterances, affecting their intelligibility. However, little attention is drawn to other, perhaps more aggressive signal…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Santiago Pascual , Joan Serrà , Antonio Bonafonte

Unsupervised domain adaption aims to learn a powerful classifier for the target domain given a labeled source data set and an unlabeled target data set. To alleviate the effect of `domain shift', the major challenge in domain adaptation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Yexun Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

In a typical voice conversion system, vocoder is commonly used for speech-to-features analysis and features-to-speech synthesis. However, vocoder can be a source of speech quality degradation. This paper presents a vocoder-free voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-18 Xiaohai Tian , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

In a recent paper, we have presented a generative adversarial network (GAN)-based model for unconditional generation of the mel-spectrograms of singing voices. As the generator of the model is designed to take a variable-length sequence of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Jen-Yu Liu , Yu-Hua Chen , Yin-Cheng Yeh , Yi-Hsuan Yang