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This paper proposes a new architecture for speaker adaptation of multi-speaker neural-network speech synthesis systems, in which an unseen speaker's voice can be built using a relatively small amount of speech data without transcriptions.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-21 Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi

In realistic speech enhancement settings for end-user devices, we often encounter only a few speakers and noise types that tend to reoccur in the specific acoustic environment. We propose a novel personalized speech enhancement method to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Sunwoo Kim , Minje Kim

Several recently proposed text-to-speech (TTS) models achieved to generate the speech samples with the human-level quality in the single-speaker and multi-speaker TTS scenarios with a set of pre-defined speakers. However, synthesizing a new…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Byoung Jin Choi , Myeonghun Jeong , Minchan Kim , Sung Hwan Mun , Nam Soo Kim

Voice Conversion research in recent times has increasingly focused on improving the zero-shot capabilities of existing methods. Despite remarkable advancements, current architectures still tend to struggle in zero-shot cross-lingual…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Advait Joglekar , Divyanshu Singh , Rooshil Rohit Bhatia , S. Umesh

Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion is recently attract-ing huge research efforts in the speech processing community. A voice conversion system transforms an utterance of a source speaker to another utterance of a target speaker by…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zining Zhang , Bingsheng He , Zhenjie Zhang

By representing speaker characteristic as a single fixed-length vector extracted solely from speech, we can train a neural multi-speaker speech synthesis model by conditioning the model on those vectors. This model can also be adapted to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-09 Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi

Traditional studies on voice conversion (VC) have made progress with parallel training data and known speakers. Good voice conversion quality is obtained by exploring better alignment modules or expressive mapping functions. In this study,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Jiachen Lian , Chunlei Zhang , Dong Yu

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

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

The rapid advancement of Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech (ZS-TTS) technology has enabled high-fidelity voice synthesis from minimal audio cues, raising significant privacy and ethical concerns. Despite the threats to voice privacy, research to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Taesoo Kim , Jinju Kim , Dongchan Kim , Jong Hwan Ko , Gyeong-Moon Park

We investigate the use of zero-shot text-to-speech (ZS-TTS) as a data augmentation source for low-resource personalized speech synthesis. While synthetic augmentation can provide linguistically rich and phonetically diverse speech, naively…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Youngwon Choi , Jinwoo Oh , Hwayeon Kim , Hyeonyu Kim

Few-shot speaker adaptation is a specific Text-to-Speech (TTS) system that aims to reproduce a novel speaker's voice with a few training data. While numerous attempts have been made to the few-shot speaker adaptation system, there is still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Ji-Hoon Kim , Sang-Hoon Lee , Ji-Hyun Lee , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

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

The rapid development of large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models has led to significant advancements in modeling diverse speaker prosody and voices. However, these models often face issues such as slow inference speeds, reliance on complex…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Yinghao Aaron Li , Xilin Jiang , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

Zero-shot speaker cloning aims to synthesize speech for any target speaker unseen during TTS system building, given only a single speech reference of the speaker at hand. Although more practical in real applications, the current zero-shot…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Tao Li , Zhichao Wang , Xinfa Zhu , Jian Cong , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang , Lei Xie

The zero-shot scenario for speech generation aims at synthesizing a novel unseen voice with only one utterance of the target speaker. Although the challenges of adapting new voices in zero-shot scenario exist in both stages -- acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yi Lei , Shan Yang , Jian Cong , Lei Xie , Dan Su

We present the gradual style adaptor TTS (GSA-TTS) with a novel style encoder that gradually encodes speaking styles from an acoustic reference for zero-shot speech synthesis. GSA first captures the local style of each semantic sound unit.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Seokgi Lee , Jungjun Kim

Unsupervised Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (VC) aims to modify the speaker characteristic of an utterance to match an unseen target speaker without relying on parallel training data. Recently, self-supervised learning of speech representation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Trung Dang , Dung Tran , Peter Chin , Kazuhito Koishida

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

This paper presents a novel zero-shot learning approach towards personalized speech enhancement through the use of a sparsely active ensemble model. Optimizing speech denoising systems towards a particular test-time speaker can improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim