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Emotional voice conversion aims to convert the emotion of speech from one state to another while preserving the linguistic content and speaker identity. The prior studies on emotional voice conversion are mostly carried out under the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Kun Zhou , Berrak Sisman , Mingyang Zhang , Haizhou Li

Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion remains an interesting but challenging speech processing task. Recently, AutoVC, a conditional autoencoder based method, achieved excellent conversion results by disentangling the speaker identity…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Zhen Zeng , Edward Xiao , Jing Xiao

Learning emotion embedding from reference audio is a straightforward approach for multi-emotion speech synthesis in encoder-decoder systems. But how to get better emotion embedding and how to inject it into TTS acoustic model more…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Fengyu Yang , Jian Luan , Yujun Wang

Voice conversion (VC) is a task that transforms the source speaker's timbre, accent, and tones in audio into another one's while preserving the linguistic content. It is still a challenging work, especially in a one-shot setting.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Da-Yi Wu , Yen-Hao Chen , Hung-Yi Lee

This paper introduces voice reenactement as the task of voice conversion (VC) in which the expressivity of the source speaker is preserved during conversion while the identity of a target speaker is transferred. To do so, an original…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Frederik Bous , Laurent Benaroya , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

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

A speaker verification (SV) system offers an authentication service designed to confirm whether a given speech sample originates from a specific speaker. This technology has paved the way for various personalized applications that cater to…

We propose SelfVC, a training strategy to iteratively improve a voice conversion model with self-synthesized examples. Previous efforts on voice conversion focus on factorizing speech into explicitly disentangled representations that…

Voice conversion (VC) using deep learning technologies can now generate high quality one-to-many voices and thus has been used in some practical application fields, such as entertainment and healthcare. However, voice conversion can pose…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Qiang Huang

Singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to convert the voice of one singer to that of other singers while keeping the singing content and melody. On top of recent voice conversion works, we propose a novel model to steadily convert songs while…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Zhonghao Li , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Yuan Wan , Ling Xu , Chen Shen , Zejun Ma

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) aims to change the emotional state of an utterance while preserving the linguistic content and speaker identity. In this paper, we propose a novel 2-stage training strategy for sequence-to-sequence emotional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Kun Zhou , Berrak Sisman , Haizhou Li

In this paper, we propose a new methodology for emotional speech recognition using visual deep neural network models. We employ the transfer learning capabilities of the pre-trained computer vision deep models to have a mandate for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Waleed Ragheb , Mehdi Mirzapour , Ali Delfardi , Hélène Jacquenet , Lawrence Carbon

Voice Conversion (VC) emerged as a significant domain of research in the field of speech synthesis in recent years due to its emerging application in voice-assisting technology, automated movie dubbing, and speech-to-singing conversion to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Sandipan Dhar , Nanda Dulal Jana , Swagatam Das

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

In recent years, the rapid progress in speaker verification (SV) technology has been driven by the extraction of speaker representations based on deep learning. However, such representations are still vulnerable to emotion variability. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jingguang Tian , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

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

Building cross-lingual voice conversion (VC) systems for multiple speakers and multiple languages has been a challenging task for a long time. This paper describes a parallel non-autoregressive network to achieve bilingual and code-switched…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Yaogen Yang , Haozhe Zhang , Xiaoyi Qin , Shanshan Liang , Huahua Cui , Mingyang Xu , Ming Li

Generative voice technologies are rapidly evolving, offering opportunities for more personalized and inclusive experiences. Traditional one-shot voice conversion (VC) requires a target recording during inference, limiting ease of usage in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Jiarui Hai , Karan Thakkar , Helin Wang , Zengyi Qin , Mounya Elhilali

Speech emotion conversion is the task of modifying the perceived emotion of a speech utterance while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. In this study, we cast the problem of emotion conversion as a spoken language…

Voice conversion is to generate a new speech with the source content and a target voice style. In this paper, we focus on one general setting, i.e., non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion, which is close to the real-world scenario. As…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jian Ma , Zhedong Zheng , Hao Fei , Feng Zheng , Tat-seng Chua , Yi Yang