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Recent language model (LM) advancements have showcased impressive zero-shot voice conversion (VC) performance. However, existing LM-based VC models usually apply offline conversion from source semantics to acoustic features, demanding the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Zhichao Wang , Yuanzhe Chen , Xinsheng Wang , Lei Xie , Yuping Wang

This paper presents a novel framework to build a voice conversion (VC) system by learning from a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system, that is called TTS-VC transfer learning. We first develop a multi-speaker speech synthesis system with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-07 Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Li Zhao , Haizhou Li

Speaker identity is one of the important characteristics of human speech. In voice conversion, we change the speaker identity from one to another, while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Voice conversion involves multiple speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Berrak Sisman , Junichi Yamagishi , Simon King , Haizhou Li

Voice conversion (VC) has made progress in feature disentanglement, but it is still difficult to balance timbre and content information. This paper evaluates the pre-trained model features commonly used in voice conversion, and proposes an…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Wenyu Wang , Yiquan Zhou , Jihua Zhu , Hongwu Ding , Jiacheng Xu , Shihao Li

As a foundational technology for intelligent human-computer interaction, voice conversion (VC) seeks to transform speech from any source timbre into any target timbre. Traditional voice conversion methods based on Generative Adversarial…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wenhan Yao , Fen Xiao , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , YongQiang He , Weiping Wen

Existing automated dubbing methods are usually designed for Professionally Generated Content (PGC) production, which requires massive training data and training time to learn a person-specific audio-video mapping. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Linsen Song , Wayne Wu , Chaoyou Fu , Chen Change Loy , Ran He

We propose TES-VC (Text-driven Environment and Speaker controllable Voice Conversion), a text-driven voice conversion framework with independent control of speaker timbre and environmental acoustics. TES-VC processes simultaneous text…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jiawei Jin , Zhihan Yang , Yixuan Zhou , Zhiyong Wu

In voice conversion (VC), an approach showing promising results in the latest voice conversion challenge (VCC) 2020 is to first use an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model to transcribe the source speech into the underlying linguistic…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Xinjian Li , Shinji Watanabe , Tomoki Toda

Style voice conversion aims to transform the speaking style of source speech into a desired style while keeping the original speaker's identity. However, previous style voice conversion approaches primarily focus on well-defined domains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-09 Xinfa Zhu , Lei He , Yujia Xiao , Xi Wang , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao , Lei Xie

Inverse Text Normalization (ITN) is crucial for converting spoken Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) outputs into well-formatted written text, enhancing both readability and usability. Despite its importance, the integration of streaming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Luong Ho , Khanh Le , Vinh Pham , Bao Nguyen , Tan Tran , Duc Chau

Adaptive video streaming plays a crucial role in ensuring high-quality video streaming services. Despite extensive research efforts devoted to Adaptive BitRate (ABR) techniques, the current reinforcement learning (RL)-based ABR algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Shuoyao Wang , Jiawei Lin , Fangwei Ye

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

We propose a speech enhancement system that combines speaker-agnostic speech restoration with voice conversion (VC) to obtain a studio-level quality speech signal. While voice conversion models are typically used to change speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

Voice conversion is becoming increasingly popular, and a growing number of application scenarios require models with streaming inference capabilities. The recently proposed DualVC attempts to achieve this objective through streaming model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Ziqian Ning , Yuepeng Jiang , Pengcheng Zhu , Shuai Wang , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie , Mengxiao Bi

This research project investigates the application of deep learning to timbre transfer, where the timbre of a source audio can be converted to the timbre of a target audio with minimal loss in quality. The adopted approach combines…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Russell Sammut Bonnici , Charalampos Saitis , Martin Benning

Voice conversion is a task of synthesizing an utterance with target speaker's voice while maintaining linguistic information of the source utterance. While a speaker can produce varying utterances from a single script with different…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Soobin Suh , Dabi Ahn , Heewoong Park , Jonghun Park

Speech resynthesis is a generic task for which we want to synthesize audio with another audio as input, which finds applications for media monitors and journalists.Among different tasks addressed by speech resynthesis, voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Thibault Gaudier , Marie Tahon , Anthony Larcher , Yannick Estève

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

One-shot voice conversion (VC), which performs conversion across arbitrary speakers with only a single target-speaker utterance for reference, can be effectively achieved by speech representation disentanglement. Existing work generally…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Disong Wang , Liqun Deng , Yu Ting Yeung , Xiao Chen , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Conventional voice conversion modifies voice characteristics from a source speaker to a target speaker, relying on audio input from both sides. However, this process becomes infeasible when clean audio is unavailable, such as in silent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yifan Liu , Yu Fang , Zhouhan Lin