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Despite rapid progress in the voice style transfer (VST) field, recent zero-shot VST systems still lack the ability to transfer the voice style of a novel speaker. In this paper, we present HierVST, a hierarchical adaptive end-to-end…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Sang-Hoon Lee , Ha-Yeong Choi , Hyung-Seok Oh , Seong-Whan Lee

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert the original speaker's timbre to any target speaker while keeping the linguistic content. Current mainstream zero-shot voice conversion approaches depend on pre-trained recognition models to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yuke Li , Xinfa Zhu , Hanzhao Li , JiXun Yao , WenJie Tian , XiPeng Yang , YunLin Chen , Zhifei Li , Lei Xie

Zero-shot voice conversion aims to transform a source speech utterance to match the timbre of a reference speech from an unseen speaker. Traditional approaches struggle with timbre leakage, insufficient timbre representation, and mismatches…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Songting Liu

Acoustic echo and background noise pose challenges on speech enhancement in hands-free systems and speakerphones. Discriminatively trained end-to-end methods represent a powerful solution for joint acoustic echo control (AEC) and denoising.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Haljan Lugo Girao , Ernst Seidel , Pejman Mowlaee , Ziyue Zhao , Tim Fingscheidt

A diffusion-based voice conversion (VC) model (e.g., VoiceGrad) can achieve high speech quality and speaker similarity; however, its conversion process is slow owing to iterative sampling. FastVoiceGrad overcomes this limitation by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

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

We propose a speech enhancement system that combines speaker-agnostic speech restoration with voice conversion (VC) to obtain a studio-level quality speech signal. While voice conversion models are typically used to change speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

In recent years, diffusion-based generative models have demonstrated remarkable performance in speech conversion, including Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and others. However, the advantages of these models come at the cost…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Pengyu Ren , Wenhao Guan , Kaidi Wang , Peijie Chen , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

Diffusion-based generative models have exhibited powerful generative performance in recent years. However, as many attributes exist in the data distribution and owing to several limitations of sharing the model parameters across all levels…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Ha-Yeong Choi , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Previously, we introduced VoiceGrad, a nonparallel voice conversion (VC) technique enabling mel-spectrogram conversion from source to target speakers using a score-based diffusion model. The concept involves training a score network to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Hirokazu Kameoka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

We propose a highly controllable voice manipulation system that can perform any-to-any voice conversion (VC) and prosody modulation simultaneously. State-of-the-art VC systems can transfer sentence-level characteristics such as speaker,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Kyungguen Byun , Sunkuk Moon , Erik Visser

Voice conversion is a common speech synthesis task which can be solved in different ways depending on a particular real-world scenario. The most challenging one often referred to as one-shot many-to-many voice conversion consists in copying…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Vadim Popov , Ivan Vovk , Vladimir Gogoryan , Tasnima Sadekova , Mikhail Kudinov , Jiansheng Wei

Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (VC) aims to transform the source speaker's timbre into an arbitrary unseen one while retaining speech content. Most prior work focuses on preserving the source's prosody, while fine-grained timbre information may…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Jialong Zuo , Shengpeng Ji , Minghui Fang , Mingze Li , Ziyue Jiang , Xize Cheng , Xiaoda Yang , Chen Feiyang , Xinyu Duan , Zhou Zhao

Zero-shot voice conversion aims to transfer the voice of a source speaker to that of a speaker unseen during training, while preserving the content information. Although various methods have been proposed to reconstruct speaker information…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Anastasia Avdeeva , Aleksei Gusev

Recent progress in deep generative models has improved the quality of neural vocoders in speech domain. However, generating a high-quality singing voice remains challenging due to a wider variety of musical expressions in pitch, loudness,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Naoya Takahashi , Mayank Kumar , Singh , Yuki Mitsufuji

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

Diffusion-based voice conversion (VC) techniques such as VoiceGrad have attracted interest because of their high VC performance in terms of speech quality and speaker similarity. However, a notable limitation is the slow inference caused by…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

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

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

Singing voice conversion (SVC) is one promising technique which can enrich the way of human-computer interaction by endowing a computer the ability to produce high-fidelity and expressive singing voice. In this paper, we propose DiffSVC, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Dan Su , Helen Meng
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