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This paper proposes a new task called spatial voice conversion, which aims to convert a target voice while preserving spatial information and non-target signals. Traditional voice conversion methods focus on single-channel waveforms,…

This paper explores multi-modal controllable Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) where the voice can be generated from face image, and the characteristics of output speech (e.g., pace, noise level, distance, tone, place) can be controllable with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Minsu Kim , Pingchuan Ma , Honglie Chen , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Singing voice conversion is to convert the source singing voice into the target singing voice except for the content. Currently, flow-based models can complete the task of voice conversion, but they struggle to effectively extract latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Hui Li , Hongyu Wang , Zhijin Chen , Bohan Sun , Bo Li

Most of the previous approaches to lyrics-to-audio alignment used a pre-developed automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that innately suffered from several difficulties to adapt the speech model to individual singers. A significant…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Sungkyun Chang , Kyogu Lee

Automatic transcription of monophonic/polyphonic music is a challenging task due to the lack of availability of large amounts of transcribed data. In this paper, we propose a data augmentation method that converts natural speech to singing…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Sakya Basak , Shrutina Agarwal , Sriram Ganapathy , Naoya Takahashi

Text-to-Speech (TTS) has recently seen great progress in synthesizing high-quality speech owing to the rapid development of parallel TTS systems, but producing speech with naturalistic prosodic variations, speaking styles and emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their remarkable capabilities across various language tasks. Inspired by the success of text-to-text translation refinement, this paper investigates how LLMs can improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Huaixia Dou , Xinyu Tian , Xinglin Lyu , Jie Zhu , Junhui Li , Lifan Guo

Speech segmentation is an essential part of speech translation (ST) systems in real-world scenarios. Since most ST models are designed to process speech segments, long-form audio must be partitioned into shorter segments before translation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Jaesong Lee , Soyoon Kim , Hanbyul Kim , Joon Son Chung

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) aims to generate expressive and high-quality vocals from musical scores, requiring precise modeling of pitch, duration, and articulation. While diffusion-based models have achieved remarkable success in image…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kehan Sui , Jinxu Xiang , Fang Jin

Speech to speech translation (S2ST) is a transformative technology that bridges global communication gaps, enabling real time multilingual interactions in diplomacy, tourism, and international trade. Our review examines the evolution of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Mohammad Sarim , Saim Shakeel , Laeeba Javed , Jamaluddin , Mohammad Nadeem

Unlike text, speech conveys information about the speaker, such as gender, through acoustic cues like pitch. This gives rise to modality-specific bias concerns. For example, in speech translation (ST), when translating from languages with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Lina Conti , Dennis Fucci , Marco Gaido , Matteo Negri , Guillaume Wisniewski , Luisa Bentivogli

Speech-to-text translation (ST) is a cross-modal task that involves converting spoken language into text in a different language. Previous research primarily focused on enhancing speech translation by facilitating knowledge transfer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Chengwei Zhang , Yue Zhou , Rui Zhao , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

This paper presents a method for end-to-end cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) which aims to preserve the target language's pronunciation regardless of the original speaker's language. The model used is based on a non-attentive Tacotron…

As one of the most intuitive interfaces known to humans, natural language has the potential to mediate many tasks that involve human-computer interaction, especially in application-focused fields like Music Information Retrieval. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Ilaria Manco , Emmanouil Benetos , Elio Quinton , György Fazekas

How to solve the data scarcity problem for end-to-end speech-to-text translation (ST)? It's well known that data augmentation is an efficient method to improve performance for many tasks by enlarging the dataset. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Xuxin Cheng , Qianqian Dong , Fengpeng Yue , Tom Ko , Mingxuan Wang , Yuexian Zou

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) has seen remarkable advancements in recent years. However, compared to speech and general audio data, publicly available singing datasets remain limited. In practice, this data scarcity often leads to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yiwen Zhao , Jiatong Shi , Yuxun Tang , William Chen , Shinji Watanabe

In this study, we present an innovative technique for speaker adaptation in order to improve the accuracy of segmentation with application to unit-selection Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems. Unlike conventional techniques for speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Claudio Zito , Fabio Tesser , Mauro Nicolao , Piero Cosi

Self-supervised speech pre-training empowers the model with the contextual structure inherent in the speech signal while self-supervised text pre-training empowers the model with linguistic information. Both of them are beneficial for…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zhuoyuan Yao , Shuo Ren , Sanyuan Chen , Ziyang Ma , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie

Zero-shot singing voice synthesis (SVS) with style transfer and style control aims to generate high-quality singing voices with unseen timbres and styles (including singing method, emotion, rhythm, technique, and pronunciation) from audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Yu Zhang , Ziyue Jiang , Ruiqi Li , Changhao Pan , Jinzheng He , Rongjie Huang , Chuxin Wang , Zhou Zhao

Stuttering is a speech disorder where the natural flow of speech is interrupted by blocks, repetitions or prolongations of syllables, words and phrases. The majority of existing automatic speech recognition (ASR) interfaces perform poorly…