English
Related papers

Related papers: Converting Anyone's Voice: End-to-End Expressive V…

200 papers

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

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

Wav2vec2 has achieved success in applying Transformer architecture and self-supervised learning to speech recognition. Recently, these have come to be used not only for speech recognition but also for the entire speech processing. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Harunori Kawano , Sota Shimizu

Voice conversion (VC) aims at altering a person's voice to make it sound similar to the voice of another person while preserving linguistic content. Existing methods suffer from a dilemma between content intelligibility and speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Siyuan Shan , Yang Li , Amartya Banerjee , Junier B. Oliva

Current voice conversion (VC) methods can successfully convert timbre of the audio. As modeling source audio's prosody effectively is a challenging task, there are still limitations of transferring source style to the converted speech. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Zhichao Wang , Xinyong Zhou , Fengyu Yang , Tao Li , Hongqiang Du , Lei Xie , Wendong Gan , Haitao Chen , Hai Li

Conveying the linguistic content and maintaining the source speech's speaking style, such as intonation and emotion, is essential in voice conversion (VC). However, in a low-resource situation, where only limited utterances from the target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Zhichao Wang , Xinsheng Wang , Lei Xie , Yuanzhe Chen , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang

Decoding EEG signals for imagined speech is a challenging task due to the high-dimensional nature of the data and low signal-to-noise ratio. In recent years, denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have emerged as promising…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Soowon Kim , Young-Eun Lee , Seo-Hyun Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Recently, voice conversion (VC) without parallel data has been successfully adapted to multi-target scenario in which a single model is trained to convert the input voice to many different speakers. However, such model suffers from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Ju-chieh Chou , Cheng-chieh Yeh , Hung-yi Lee

Voice conversion has gained increasing popularity in many applications of speech synthesis. The idea is to change the voice identity from one speaker into another while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Many voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Bac Nguyen , Fabien Cardinaux

Human emotional speech is, by its very nature, a variant signal. This results in dynamics intrinsic to automatic emotion classification based on speech. In this work, we explore a spectral decomposition method stemming from fluid-dynamics,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Shuiyang Mao , P. C. Ching , Tan Lee

Recently, the application of diffusion probabilistic models has advanced speech enhancement through generative approaches. However, existing diffusion-based methods have focused on the generation process in high-dimensional waveform or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Shengkui Zhao , Zexu Pan , Kun Zhou , Yukun Ma , Chong Zhang , Bin Ma

Any-to-any singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to transfer a target singer's timbre to other songs using a short voice sample. However many diffusion model based any-to-any SVC methods, which have achieved impressive results, usually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Shihao Chen , Yu Gu , Jianwei Cui , Jie Zhang , Rilin Chen , Lirong Dai

Human speech conveys prosody, linguistic content, and speaker identity. This article investigates a novel speaker anonymization approach using an end-to-end network based on a Vector-Quantized Variational Auto-Encoder (VQ-VAE) to deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Sotheara Leang , Anderson Augusma , Eric Castelli , Frédérique Letué , Sethserey Sam , Dominique Vaufreydaz

Recent advances in zero-shot voice conversion have exhibited potential in emotion control, yet the performance is suboptimal or inconsistent due to their limited expressive capacity. We propose Emotion-Aware Prefix for explicit emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Haoyuan Yang , Mu Yang , Jiamin Xie , Szu-Jui Chen , John H. L. Hansen

Singing voice conversion is to convert the source singing voice into the target singing voice except for the content. Currently, flow-based models can complete the task of voice conversion, but they struggle to effectively extract latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Hui Li , Hongyu Wang , Zhijin Chen , Bohan Sun , Bo Li

The images produced by diffusion models can attain excellent perceptual quality. However, it is challenging for diffusion models to guarantee distortion, hence the integration of diffusion models and image compression models still needs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Yiyang Ma , Wenhan Yang , Jiaying Liu

Despite previous success in generating audio-driven talking heads, most of the previous studies focus on the correlation between speech content and the mouth shape. Facial emotion, which is one of the most important features on natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Xinya Ji , Hang Zhou , Kaisiyuan Wang , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Xun Cao , Feng Xu

This paper presents Daft-Exprt, a multi-speaker acoustic model advancing the state-of-the-art for cross-speaker prosody transfer on any text. This is one of the most challenging, and rarely directly addressed, task in speech synthesis,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Julian Zaïdi , Hugo Seuté , Benjamin van Niekerk , Marc-André Carbonneau

Voice conversion (VC) systems are widely used for several applications, from speaker anonymisation to personalised speech synthesis. Supervised approaches learn a mapping between different speakers using parallel data, which is expensive to…

This research presents a neural network based voice conversion (VC) model. While it is a known fact that voiced sounds and prosody are the most important component of the voice conversion framework, what is not known is their objective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Olaide Agbolade