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Expressive voice conversion aims to transfer both speaker identity and expressive attributes from a target speech to a given source speech. In this work, we improve over a self-supervised, non-autoregressive framework with a conditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Seymanur Akti , Tuan Nam Nguyen , Alexander Waibel

In addition to conveying the linguistic content from source speech to converted speech, maintaining the speaking style of source speech also plays an important role in the voice conversion (VC) task, which is essential in many scenarios…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Zhichao Wang , Xinsheng Wang , Qicong Xie , Tao Li , Lei Xie , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang

Speech generation for machine dubbing adds complexity to conventional Text-To-Speech solutions as the generated output is required to match the expressiveness, emotion and speaking rate of the source content. Capturing and transferring…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Jakub Swiatkowski , Duo Wang , Mikolaj Babianski , Giuseppe Coccia , Patrick Lumban Tobing , Ravichander Vipperla , Viacheslav Klimkov , Vincent Pollet

The goal of hate speech detection is to filter negative online content aiming at certain groups of people. Due to the easy accessibility of social media platforms it is crucial to protect everyone which requires building hate speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Irina Bigoulaeva , Viktor Hangya , Iryna Gurevych , Alexander Fraser

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) with discrete self-supervised representations has achieved remarkable accuracy, but is unable to preserve the speaker timbre of the source speech. Meanwhile, the scarcity of high-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yongqi Wang , Jionghao Bai , Rongjie Huang , Ruiqi Li , Zhiqing Hong , Zhou Zhao

Text-style transfer aims to convert text given in one domain into another by paraphrasing the sentence or substituting the keywords without altering the content. By necessity, state-of-the-art methods have evolved to accommodate nonparallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Xing Han , Jessica Lundin

This paper presents a simple yet effective method to achieve prosody transfer from a reference speech signal to synthesized speech. The main idea is to incorporate well-known acoustic correlates of prosody such as pitch and loudness…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Siddharth Gururani , Kilol Gupta , Dhaval Shah , Zahra Shakeri , Jervis Pinto

Non-parallel text style transfer is an important task in natural language generation. However, previous studies concentrate on the token or sentence level, such as sentence sentiment and formality transfer, but neglect long style transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xuekai Zhu , Jian Guan , Minlie Huang , Juan Liu

Cross-lingual alignment in pretrained language models enables knowledge transfer across languages. Similar alignment has been reported in Whisper-style speech encoders, based on spoken translation retrieval using representational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ryan Soh-Eun Shim , Domenico De Cristofaro , Chengzhi Martin Hu , Alessandro Vietti , Barbara Plank

Style transfer for out-of-domain (OOD) speech synthesis aims to generate speech samples with unseen style (e.g., speaker identity, emotion, and prosody) derived from an acoustic reference, while facing the following challenges: 1) The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Rongjie Huang , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Chenye Cui , Zhou Zhao

The task of few-shot style transfer for voice cloning in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims at transferring speaking styles of an arbitrary source speaker to a target speaker's voice using very limited amount of neutral data. This is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Songxiang Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu

Recently, there has been great interest in the field of audio style transfer, where a stylized audio is generated by imposing the style of a reference audio on the content of a target audio. We improve on the current approaches which use…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Dhruv Ramani , Samarjit Karmakar , Anirban Panda , Asad Ahmed , Pratham Tangri

Style transfer is the task of rephrasing the text to contain specific stylistic properties without changing the intent or affect within the context. This paper introduces a new method for automatic style transfer. We first learn a latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Shrimai Prabhumoye , Yulia Tsvetkov , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Alan W Black

Voice conversion as the style transfer task applied to speech, refers to converting one person's speech into a new speech that sounds like another person's. Up to now, there has been a lot of research devoted to better implementation of VC…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Yimin Deng , Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Stylistic text generation plays a vital role in enhancing communication by reflecting the nuances of individual expression. This paper presents a novel approach for generating text in a specific speaker's style across different languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Karishma Thakrar , Katrina Lawrence , Kyle Howard

Textual style transfer is the task of transforming stylistic properties of text while preserving meaning. Target "styles" can be defined in numerous ways, ranging from single attributes (e.g, formality) to authorship (e.g, Shakespeare).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Zachary Horvitz , Ajay Patel , Chris Callison-Burch , Zhou Yu , Kathleen McKeown

Prosody plays an important role in characterizing the style of a speaker or an emotion, but most non-parallel voice or emotion style transfer algorithms do not convert any prosody information. Two major components of prosody are pitch and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Jinjun Xiong , Chuang Gan , David Cox , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Prosody Transfer (PT) is a technique that aims to use the prosody from a source audio as a reference while synthesising speech. Fine-grained PT aims at capturing prosodic aspects like rhythm, emphasis, melody, duration, and loudness, from a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Sri Karlapati , Alexis Moinet , Arnaud Joly , Viacheslav Klimkov , Daniel Sáez-Trigueros , Thomas Drugman

Speech signals encompass various information across multiple levels including content, speaker, and style. Disentanglement of these information, although challenging, is important for applications such as voice conversion. The contrastive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Yuying Xie , Michael Kuhlmann , Frederik Rautenberg , Zheng-Hua Tan , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

This paper presents Daft-Exprt, a multi-speaker acoustic model advancing the state-of-the-art for cross-speaker prosody transfer on any text. This is one of the most challenging, and rarely directly addressed, task in speech synthesis,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Julian Zaïdi , Hugo Seuté , Benjamin van Niekerk , Marc-André Carbonneau