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In this work, we present DiffVoice, a novel text-to-speech model based on latent diffusion. We propose to first encode speech signals into a phoneme-rate latent representation with a variational autoencoder enhanced by adversarial training,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Zhijun Liu , Yiwei Guo , Kai Yu

Zero-shot singing voice conversion (SVC) transforms a source singer's timbre to an unseen target speaker's voice while preserving melodic content without fine-tuning. Existing methods model speaker timbre and vocal content separately,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bingsong Bai , Yizhong Geng , Fengping Wang , Cong Wang , Puyuan Guo , Yingming Gao , Ya Li

Style voice conversion aims to transform the speaking style of source speech into a desired style while keeping the original speaker's identity. However, previous style voice conversion approaches primarily focus on well-defined domains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-09 Xinfa Zhu , Lei He , Yujia Xiao , Xi Wang , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao , Lei Xie

Talking head generation with arbitrary identities and speech audio remains a crucial problem in the realm of the virtual metaverse. Recently, diffusion models have become a popular generative technique in this field with their strong…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xinyang Li , Gen Li , Zhihui Lin , Yichen Qian , GongXin Yao , Weinan Jia , Aowen Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

Diffusion-based models for robotic control, including vision-language-action (VLA) and vision-action (VA) policies, have demonstrated significant capabilities. Yet their advancement is constrained by the high cost of acquiring large-scale…

Voice conversion is a task of synthesizing an utterance with target speaker's voice while maintaining linguistic information of the source utterance. While a speaker can produce varying utterances from a single script with different…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Soobin Suh , Dabi Ahn , Heewoong Park , Jonghun Park

The goal of cross-speaker style transfer in TTS is to transfer a speech style from a source speaker with expressive data to a target speaker with only neutral data. In this context, we propose using a pre-trained singing voice conversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Leonardo B. de M. M. Marques , Lucas H. Ueda , Mário U. Neto , Flávio O. Simões , Fernando Runstein , Bianca Dal Bó , Paula D. P. Costa

We introduce DISSC, a novel, lightweight method that converts the rhythm, pitch contour and timbre of a recording to a target speaker in a textless manner. Unlike DISSC, most voice conversion (VC) methods focus primarily on timbre, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Gallil Maimon , Yossi Adi

Cross-speaker style transfer aims to extract the speech style of the given reference speech, which can be reproduced in the timbre of arbitrary target speakers. Existing methods on this topic have explored utilizing utterance-level style…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Xiang Li , Changhe Song , Xianhao Wei , Zhiyong Wu , Jia Jia , Helen Meng

Voice Conversion (VC) modifies speech to match a target speaker while preserving linguistic content. Traditional methods usually extract speaker information directly from speech while neglecting the explicit utilization of linguistic…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Fengjin Li , Jie Wang , Yadong Niu , Yongqing Wang , Meng Meng , Jian Luan , Zhiyong Wu

With the development of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) technology, high-quality voice conversion (VC) can be achieved by extracting source content information and target speaker information to reconstruct…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Houjian Guo , Chaoran Liu , Carlos Toshinori Ishi , Hiroshi Ishiguro

Text-based audio generation models have limitations as they cannot encompass all the information in audio, leading to restricted controllability when relying solely on text. To address this issue, we propose a novel model that enhances the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Zhifang Guo , Jianguo Mao , Rui Tao , Long Yan , Kazushige Ouchi , Hong Liu , Xiangdong Wang

Speech emotion conversion is the task of converting the expressed emotion of a spoken utterance to a target emotion while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. While most existing works in speech emotion conversion rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Navin Raj Prabhu , Bunlong Lay , Simon Welker , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock , Timo Gerkmann

Voice conversion is a method that allows for the transformation of speaking style while maintaining the integrity of linguistic information. There are many researchers using deep generative models for voice conversion tasks. Generative…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

In this paper, we present CopyCat2 (CC2), a novel model capable of: a) synthesizing speech with different speaker identities, b) generating speech with expressive and contextually appropriate prosody, and c) transferring prosody at…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Sri Karlapati , Penny Karanasou , Mateusz Lajszczak , Ammar Abbas , Alexis Moinet , Peter Makarov , Ray Li , Arent van Korlaar , Simon Slangen , Thomas Drugman

Controllable emotional voice conversion (EVC) aims to manipulate emotional expressions to increase the diversity of synthesized speech. Existing methods typically rely on predefined labels, reference audios, or prespecified factor values,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Tianhua Qi , Shiyan Wang , Cheng Lu , Tengfei Song , Hao Yang , Zhanglin Wu , Wenming Zheng

In voice conversion (VC) applications, diffusion and flow-matching models have exhibited exceptional speech quality and speaker similarity performances. However, they are limited by slow conversion owing to their iterative inference.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

Voice conversion models have developed for decades, and current mainstream research focuses on non-streaming voice conversion. However, streaming voice conversion is more suitable for practical application scenarios than non-streaming voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ziyi Chen , Haoran Miao , Pengyuan Zhang

Voice conversion (VC) models have demonstrated impressive few-shot conversion quality on the clean, native speech populations they're trained on. However, when source or target speech accents, background noise conditions, or microphone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Avani Tanna , Michael Saxon , Amr El Abbadi , William Yang Wang

Speech language models refer to language models with speech processing and understanding capabilities. One key desirable capability for speech language models is the ability to capture the intricate interdependency between content and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Kaizhi Qian , Xulin Fan , Junrui Ni , Slava Shechtman , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Chuang Gan , Yang Zhang