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Voice conversion (VC) aims to modify the speaker's identity while preserving the linguistic content. Commonly, VC methods use an encoder-decoder architecture, where disentangling the speaker's identity from linguistic information is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Philip H. Lee , Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Berrak Sisman

Voice Conversion (VC) aims to modify a speaker's timbre while preserving linguistic content. While recent VC models achieve strong performance, most struggle in real-time streaming scenarios due to high latency, dependence on ASR modules,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhao Guo , Ziqian Ning , Guobin Ma , Lei Xie

Voice conversion has emerged as a pivotal technology in numerous applications ranging from assistive communication to entertainment. In this paper, we present RT-VC, a zero-shot real-time voice conversion system that delivers ultra-low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Yisi Liu , Chenyang Wang , Hanjo Kim , Raniya Khan , Gopala Anumanchipalli

A diffusion-based voice conversion (VC) model (e.g., VoiceGrad) can achieve high speech quality and speaker similarity; however, its conversion process is slow owing to iterative sampling. FastVoiceGrad overcomes this limitation by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

Domain mismatch problem caused by speaker-unrelated feature has been a major topic in speaker recognition. In this paper, we propose an explicit disentanglement framework to unravel speaker-relevant features from speaker-unrelated features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Sung Hwan Mun , Min Hyun Han , Minchan Kim , Dongjune Lee , Nam Soo Kim

This paper presents a novel task, zero-shot voice conversion based on face images (zero-shot FaceVC), which aims at converting the voice characteristics of an utterance from any source speaker to a newly coming target speaker, solely…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zheng-Yan Sheng , Yang Ai , Yan-Nian Chen , Zhen-Hua Ling

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

Self-supervised learning in speech involves training a speech representation network on a large-scale unannotated speech corpus, and then applying the learned representations to downstream tasks. Since the majority of the downstream tasks…

Timbre and pitch are the two main perceptual properties of musical sounds. Depending on the target applications, we sometimes prefer to focus on one of them, while reducing the effect of the other. Researchers have managed to hand-craft…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Yun-Ning Hung , Yi-An Chen , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) transfers a source singer's timbre to a target while keeping melody and lyrics. The key challenge in any-to-any SVC is adapting unseen speaker timbres to source audio without quality degradation. Existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Wei Chen , Binzhu Sha , Dan Luo , Jing Yang , Zhuo Wang , Fan Fan , Zhiyong Wu

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer the timbre from the source speaker to an arbitrary unseen speaker while preserving the original linguistic content. Despite recent advancements in zero-shot VC using language model-based or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Jixun Yao , Yuguang Yang , Yu Pan , Ziqian Ning , Jiaohao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Xie

Despite recent advances in zero-shot voice conversion (VC), achieving speaker similarity and naturalness comparable to ground-truth recordings remains a significant challenge. In this letter, we propose CTEFM-VC, a zero-shot VC framework…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yu Pan , Yuguang Yang , Jixun Yao , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

Voice Conversion (VC) is a technique that aims to transform the non-linguistic information of a source utterance to change the perceived identity of the speaker. While there is a rich literature on VC, most proposed methods are trained and…

Despite remarkable advancements in recent voice conversion (VC) systems, enhancing speaker similarity in zero-shot scenarios remains challenging. This challenge arises from the difficulty of generalizing and adapting speaker characteristics…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ha-Yeong Choi , Jaehan Park

We introduce a novel representation learning method to disentangle pose-dependent as well as view-dependent factors from 2D human poses. The method trains a network using cross-view mutual information maximization (CV-MIM) which maximizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Long Zhao , Yuxiao Wang , Jiaping Zhao , Liangzhe Yuan , Jennifer J. Sun , Florian Schroff , Hartwig Adam , Xi Peng , Dimitris Metaxas , Ting Liu

We propose using self-supervised discrete representations for the task of speech resynthesis. To generate disentangled representation, we separately extract low-bitrate representations for speech content, prosodic information, and speaker…

Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion remains an interesting but challenging speech processing task. Recently, AutoVC, a conditional autoencoder based method, achieved excellent conversion results by disentangling the speaker identity…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Zhen Zeng , Edward Xiao , Jing Xiao

Self-supervised representation learning approaches have grown in popularity due to the ability to train models on large amounts of unlabeled data and have demonstrated success in diverse fields such as natural language processing, computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 John Harvill , Jarred Barber , Arun Nair , Ramin Pishehvar

Zero-shot voice conversion aims to transfer the voice of a source speaker to that of a speaker unseen during training, while preserving the content information. Although various methods have been proposed to reconstruct speaker information…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Anastasia Avdeeva , Aleksei Gusev

Expressive zero-shot voice conversion (VC) is a critical and challenging task that aims to transform the source timbre into an arbitrary unseen speaker while preserving the original content and expressive qualities. Despite recent progress…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yuguang Yang , Yu Pan , Jixun Yao , Xiang Zhang , Jianhao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Xie , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao
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