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Text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) are two different tasks both aiming at generating high quality speaking voice according to different input modality. Due to their similarity, this paper proposes UnifySpeech, which brings TTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Haogeng Liu , Tao Wang , Ruibo Fu , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao

Voice conversion (VC) aims at altering a person's voice to make it sound similar to the voice of another person while preserving linguistic content. Existing methods suffer from a dilemma between content intelligibility and speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Siyuan Shan , Yang Li , Amartya Banerjee , Junier B. Oliva

In this work, we propose a zero-shot voice conversion method using speech representations trained with self-supervised learning. First, we develop a multi-task model to decompose a speech utterance into features such as linguistic content,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Shehzeen Hussain , Paarth Neekhara , Jocelyn Huang , Jason Li , Boris Ginsburg

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…

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

Voice conversion (VC) using sequence-to-sequence learning of context posterior probabilities is proposed. Conventional VC using shared context posterior probabilities predicts target speech parameters from the context posterior…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hiroyuki Miyoshi , Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

In a typical voice conversion system, prior works utilize various acoustic features (e.g., the pitch, voiced/unvoiced flag, aperiodicity) of the source speech to control the prosody of generated waveform. However, the prosody is related…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Zheng Lian , Zhengqi Wen

As parallel training data is scarce for one-shot voice conversion (VC) tasks, waveform reconstruction is typically performed by various VC systems. A typical one-shot VC system comprises a content encoder and a speaker encoder. However, two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Songjun Cao , Qinghua Wu , Jie Chen , Jin Li , Long Ma

This paper introduces PFlow-VC, a conditional flow matching voice conversion model that leverages fine-grained discrete pitch tokens and target speaker prompt information for expressive voice conversion (VC). Previous VC works primarily…

This research presents a neural network based voice conversion (VC) model. While it is a known fact that voiced sounds and prosody are the most important component of the voice conversion framework, what is not known is their objective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Olaide Agbolade

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

Zero-shot voice conversion is a technique that alters the speaker identity of an input speech to match a target speaker using only a single reference utterance, without requiring additional training. Recent approaches extensively utilize…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Youngjun Sim , Jinsung Yoon , Wooyeol Jeong , Young-Joo Suh

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

We study the problem of cross-lingual voice conversion in non-parallel speech corpora and one-shot learning setting. Most prior work require either parallel speech corpora or enough amount of training data from a target speaker. However, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi , Taehwan Kim

We propose SelfVC, a training strategy to iteratively improve a voice conversion model with self-synthesized examples. Previous efforts on voice conversion focus on factorizing speech into explicitly disentangled representations that…

Recent advancements in textless speech-to-speech translation systems have been driven by the adoption of self-supervised learning techniques. Although most state-of-the-art systems adopt a similar architecture to transform source language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-29 Jarod Duret , Yannick Estève , Titouan Parcollet

Voice conversion aims to transform source speech into a different target voice. However, typical voice conversion systems do not account for rhythm, which is an important factor in the perception of speaker identity. To bridge this gap, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Benjamin van Niekerk , Marc-André Carbonneau , Herman Kamper

We propose UnitSpeech, a speaker-adaptive speech synthesis method that fine-tunes a diffusion-based text-to-speech (TTS) model using minimal untranscribed data. To achieve this, we use the self-supervised unit representation as a pseudo…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Heeseung Kim , Sungwon Kim , Jiheum Yeom , Sungroh Yoon

The rapid spread of media content synthesis technology and the potentially damaging impact of audio and video deepfakes on people's lives have raised the need to implement systems able to detect these forgeries automatically. In this work…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Luigi Attorresi , Davide Salvi , Clara Borrelli , Paolo Bestagini , Stefano Tubaro

One-shot voice cloning aims to transform speaker voice and speaking style in speech synthesized from a text-to-speech (TTS) system, where only a shot recording from the target reference speech can be used. Out-of-domain transfer is still a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Rui Li , Dong Pu , Minnie Huang , Bill Huang