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The goal of voice conversion is to transform source speech into a target voice, keeping the content unchanged. In this paper, we focus on self-supervised representation learning for voice conversion. Specifically, we compare discrete and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Benjamin van Niekerk , Marc-André Carbonneau , Julian Zaïdi , Mathew Baas , Hugo Seuté , Herman Kamper

Voice conversion as the style transfer task applied to speech, refers to converting one person's speech into a new speech that sounds like another person's. Up to now, there has been a lot of research devoted to better implementation of VC…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Yimin Deng , Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) needs to be robust to speaker differences. Voice Conversion (VC) modifies speaker characteristics of input speech. This is an attractive feature for ASR data augmentation. In this paper, we demonstrate…

Traditional vocoder-based statistical parametric speech synthesis can be advantageous in applications that require low computational complexity. Recent neural vocoders, which can produce high naturalness, still cannot fulfill the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Ali Raheem Mandeel , Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi , Tamás Gábor Csapó

Substantial improvements have been achieved in recent years in voice conversion, which converts the speaker characteristics of an utterance into those of another speaker without changing the linguistic content of the utterance. Nonetheless,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Chien-yu Huang , Yist Y. Lin , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

Speech time reversal refers to the process of reversing the entire speech signal in time, causing it to play backward. Such signals are completely unintelligible since the fundamental structures of phonemes and syllables are destroyed.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Ishan D. Biyani , Nirmesh J. Shah , Ashishkumar P. Gudmalwar , Pankaj Wasnik , Rajiv R. Shah

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) is a technique that enables any singer to perform any song. To achieve this, it is essential to obtain speaker-agnostic representations from the source audio, which poses a significant challenge. A common…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xueyao Zhang , Zihao Fang , Yicheng Gu , Haopeng Chen , Lexiao Zou , Junan Zhang , Liumeng Xue , Zhizheng Wu

Accent conversion (AC) transforms a non-native speaker's accent into a native accent while maintaining the speaker's voice timbre. In this paper, we propose approaches to improving accent conversion applicability, as well as quality. First…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Wenjie Li , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Yushi Zhao , Wei Li , Kang Wang , Hao Huang , Yuxuan Wang , Zejun Ma

We present Translatotron 2, a neural direct speech-to-speech translation model that can be trained end-to-end. Translatotron 2 consists of a speech encoder, a linguistic decoder, an acoustic synthesizer, and a single attention module that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Ye Jia , Michelle Tadmor Ramanovich , Tal Remez , Roi Pomerantz

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

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

In this work, we address the task of voice conversion (VC) using a vector-based interface. To align audio embeddings across speakers, we employ discrete optimal transport (OT) and approximate the transport map using the barycentric…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Anton Selitskiy , Maitreya Kocharekar

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer timbre from a source speaker to any unseen target speaker while preserving linguistic content. Growing application scenarios demand models with streaming inference capabilities. This has…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Guobin Ma , Jixun Yao , Ziqian Ning , Yuepeng Jiang , Lingxin Xiong , Lei Xie , Pengcheng Zhu

This paper presents a method of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion using non-parallel training data. In this method, disentangled linguistic and speaker representations are extracted from acoustic features, and voice conversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

Currently, zero-shot voice conversion systems are capable of synthesizing the voice of unseen speakers. However, most existing approaches struggle to accurately replicate the speaking style of the source speaker or mimic the distinctive…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Kaidi Wang , Wenhao Guan , Ziyue Jiang , Hukai Huang , Peijie Chen , Weijie Wu , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

We present an end-to-end method for transforming audio from one style to another. For the case of speech, by conditioning on speaker identities, we can train a single model to transform words spoken by multiple people into multiple target…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Albert Haque , Michelle Guo , Prateek Verma

We introduce the visual acoustic matching task, in which an audio clip is transformed to sound like it was recorded in a target environment. Given an image of the target environment and a waveform for the source audio, the goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Changan Chen , Ruohan Gao , Paul Calamia , Kristen Grauman

In real-world voice conversion applications, environmental noise in source speech and user demands for expressive output pose critical challenges. Traditional ASR-based methods ensure noise robustness but suppress prosody richness, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Yuepeng Jiang , Ziqian Ning , Shuai Wang , Chengjia Wang , Mengxiao Bi , Pengcheng Zhu , Zhonghua Fu , Lei Xie

This study presents an innovative Zero-Shot any-to-any Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) method, leveraging a novel clustering-based phoneme representation to effectively separate content, timbre, and singing style. This approach enables…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Wangjin Zhou , Fengrun Zhang , Yiming Liu , Wenhao Guan , Yi Zhao , Tatsuya Kawahara

The research presents a voice conversion model using coefficient mapping and neural network. Most previous works on parametric speech synthesis did not account for losses in spectral details causing over smoothing and invariably, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Olaide Ayodeji Agbolade , Samson A. Oyetunji