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Accent conversion has rapidly progressed alongside growing interest in improving global cross-cultural communication. This survey presents an overview of the evolution of accent conversion methodologies, analyzing how the field has…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yurii Halychanskyi , Jianfeng Steven Guo , Volodymyr Kindratenko

Numerous voice conversion (VC) techniques have been proposed for the conversion of voices among different speakers. Although good quality of the converted speech can be observed when VC is applied in a clean environment, the quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Yun-Ju Chan , Chiang-Jen Peng , Syu-Siang Wang , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao , Tai-Shih Chi

Singing voice conversion is a task to convert a song sang by a source singer to the voice of a target singer. In this paper, we propose using a parallel data free, many-to-one voice conversion technique on singing voices. A phonetic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-12 Xin Chen , Wei Chu , Jinxi Guo , Ning Xu

In this paper, we propose computationally efficient and high-quality methods for statistical voice conversion (VC) with direct waveform modification based on spectral differentials. The conventional method with a minimum-phase filter…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Takaaki Saeki , Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Conveying the linguistic content and maintaining the source speech's speaking style, such as intonation and emotion, is essential in voice conversion (VC). However, in a low-resource situation, where only limited utterances from the target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Zhichao Wang , Xinsheng Wang , Lei Xie , Yuanzhe Chen , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang

Domain mismatch between training and testing can lead to significant degradation in performance in many machine learning scenarios. Unfortunately, this is not a rare situation for automatic speech recognition deployments in real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Wei-Ning Hsu , Yu Zhang , James Glass

Nowadays, recognition-synthesis-based methods have been quite popular with voice conversion (VC). By introducing linguistics features with good disentangling characters extracted from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, the VC…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Xintao Zhao , Shuai Wang , Yang Chao , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng

Any-to-any voice conversion problem aims to convert voices for source and target speakers, which are out of the training data. Previous works wildly utilize the disentangle-based models. The disentangle-based model assumes the speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Qiqi Wang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) focuses on converting a speech utterance from a source to a target emotion; it can thus be a key enabling technology for human-computer interaction applications and beyond. However, EVC remains an unsolved…

Despite recent technology advancements, the effectiveness of neural approaches to end-to-end speech-to-text translation is still limited by the paucity of publicly available training corpora. We tackle this limitation with a method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Viet-Nhat Nguyen , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

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

Data augmentation is an inexpensive way to increase training data diversity and is commonly achieved via transformations of existing data. For tasks such as classification, there is a good case for learning representations of the data that…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Turab Iqbal , Karim Helwani , Arvindh Krishnaswamy , Wenwu Wang

This paper introduces a novel application of Test-Time Training (TTT) for Speech Enhancement, addressing the challenges posed by unpredictable noise conditions and domain shifts. This method combines a main speech enhancement task with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Avishkar Behera , Riya Ann Easow , Venkatesh Parvathala , K. Sri Rama Murty

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

Deep learning technologies have significantly advanced the performance of target speaker extraction (TSE) tasks. To enhance the generalization and robustness of these algorithms when training data is insufficient, data augmentation is a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Junjie Li , Ke Zhang , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li , Man-Wai Mak , Kong Aik Lee

Recently, sequence-to-sequence (seq-to-seq) models have been successfully applied in text-to-speech (TTS) to synthesize speech for single-language text. To synthesize speech for multiple languages usually requires multi-lingual speech from…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Haitong Zhang , Yue Lin

Deep neural network based speech enhancement approaches aim to learn a noisy-to-clean transformation using a supervised learning paradigm. However, such a trained-well transformation is vulnerable to unseen noises that are not included in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Heqing Zou , Linhui Sun , Eng Siong Chng

Incorporating cross-speaker style transfer in text-to-speech (TTS) models is challenging due to the need to disentangle speaker and style information in audio. In low-resource expressive data scenarios, voice conversion (VC) can generate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Lucas H. Ueda , Leonardo B. de M. M. Marques , Flávio O. Simões , Mário U. Neto , Fernando Runstein , Bianca Dal Bó , Paula D. P. Costa

State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) systems require several hours of recorded speech data to generate high-quality synthetic speech. When using reduced amounts of training data, standard TTS models suffer from speech quality and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Adam Gabryś , Goeric Huybrechts , Manuel Sam Ribeiro , Chung-Ming Chien , Julian Roth , Giulia Comini , Roberto Barra-Chicote , Bartek Perz , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

Voice Conversion (VC) for unseen speakers, also known as zero-shot VC, is an attractive research topic as it enables a range of applications like voice customizing, animation production, and others. Recent work in this area made progress…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Shijun Wang , Dimche Kostadinov , Damian Borth