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Voice conversion is a challenging task which transforms the voice characteristics of a source speaker to a target speaker without changing linguistic content. Recently, there have been many works on many-to-many Voice Conversion (VC) based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Manh Luong , Viet Anh Tran

Automatic dubbing, which generates a corresponding version of the input speech in another language, could be widely utilized in many real-world scenarios such as video and game localization. In addition to synthesizing the translated…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jingbei Li , Sipan Li , Ping Chen , Luwen Zhang , Yi Meng , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang

Recent works on voice conversion (VC) focus on preserving the rhythm and the intonation as well as the linguistic content. To preserve these features from the source, we decompose current non-parallel VC systems into two encoders and one…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Kang-wook Kim , Seung-won Park , Junhyeok Lee , Myun-chul Joe

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer the source speaker timbre to arbitrary unseen target speaker timbre, while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Although the voice of generated speech can be controlled by providing the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Junjie Li , Yiwei Guo , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Expressive voice conversion (VC) conducts speaker identity conversion for emotional speakers by jointly converting speaker identity and emotional style. Emotional style modeling for arbitrary speakers in expressive VC has not been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Zongyang Du , Junchen Lu , Kun Zhou , Lakshmish Kaushik , Berrak Sisman

We introduce a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion (VC) model based on the Transformer architecture with text-to-speech (TTS) pretraining. Seq2seq VC models are attractive owing to their ability to convert prosody. While…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Yi-Chiao Wu , Hirokazu Kameoka , Tomoki Toda

Expressive synthetic speech is essential for many human-computer interaction and audio broadcast scenarios, and thus synthesizing expressive speech has attracted much attention in recent years. Previous methods performed the expressive…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yi Lei , Shan Yang , Xinsheng Wang , Lei Xie

Cross-speaker emotion transfer speech synthesis aims to synthesize emotional speech for a target speaker by transferring the emotion from reference speech recorded by another (source) speaker. In this task, extracting speaker-independent…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Tao Li , Xinsheng Wang , Qicong Xie , Zhichao Wang , Mingqi Jiang , Lei Xie

Training neural networks for source separation involves presenting a mixture recording at the input of the network and updating network parameters in order to produce an output that resembles the clean source. Consequently, supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shrikant Venkataramani , Efthymios Tzinis , Paris Smaragdis

This paper introduces a novel method for transmitting video data over noisy wireless channels with high efficiency and controllability. The method derivates from model division multiple access (MDMA) to extract common semantic features from…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Zhicheng Bao , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Cong Li , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang

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

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

Target speech separation refers to extracting a target speaker's voice from an overlapped audio of simultaneous talkers. Previously the use of visual modality for target speech separation has demonstrated great potentials. This work…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Rongzhi Gu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Lianwu Chen , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

Voice disorders significantly impact patient quality of life, yet non-invasive automated diagnosis remains under-explored due to both the scarcity of pathological voice data, and the variability in recording sources. This work introduces…

Factorizing speech as disentangled speech representations is vital to achieve highly controllable style transfer in voice conversion (VC). Conventional speech representation learning methods in VC only factorize speech as speaker and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Jie Wang , Jingbei Li , Xintao Zhao , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Helen Meng

Voice conversion (VC) is a task that transforms voice from target audio to source without losing linguistic contents, it is challenging especially when source and target speakers are unseen during training (zero-shot VC). Previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shijun Wang , Damian Borth

Recent work has explored sequence-to-sequence latent variable models for expressive speech synthesis (supporting control and transfer of prosody and style), but has not presented a coherent framework for understanding the trade-offs between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Eric Battenberg , Soroosh Mariooryad , Daisy Stanton , RJ Skerry-Ryan , Matt Shannon , David Kao , Tom Bagby

The end-to-end speech synthesis model can directly take an utterance as reference audio, and generate speech from the text with prosody and speaker characteristics similar to the reference audio. However, an appropriate acoustic embedding…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Cheng Gong , Longbiao Wang , Zhenhua Ling , Ju Zhang , Jianwu Dang

Most music generation models directly generate a single music mixture. To allow for more flexible and controllable generation, the Multi-Source Diffusion Model (MSDM) has been proposed to model music as a mixture of multiple instrumental…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Zhongweiyang Xu , Debottam Dutta , Yu-Lin Wei , Romit Roy Choudhury

Multi-modal multi-party conversation (MMC) is a less studied yet important topic of research due to that it well fits real-world scenarios and thus potentially has more widely-used applications. Compared with the traditional multi-modal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yueqian Wang , Xiaojun Meng , Yuxuan Wang , Jianxin Liang , Qun Liu , Dongyan Zhao