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Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) is a technique that enables any singer to perform any song. To achieve this, it is essential to obtain speaker-agnostic representations from the source audio, which poses a significant challenge. A common…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xueyao Zhang , Zihao Fang , Yicheng Gu , Haopeng Chen , Lexiao Zou , Junan Zhang , Liumeng Xue , Zhizheng Wu

The first spoofing-aware speaker verification (SASV) challenge aims to integrate research efforts in speaker verification and anti-spoofing. We extend the speaker verification scenario by introducing spoofed trials to the usual set of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Jee-weon Jung , Hemlata Tak , Hye-jin Shim , Hee-Soo Heo , Bong-Jin Lee , Soo-Whan Chung , Ha-Jin Yu , Nicholas Evans , Tomi Kinnunen

Traditional voice conversion (VC) methods typically attempt to separate speaker identity and linguistic information into distinct representations, which are then combined to reconstruct the audio. However, effectively disentangling these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Huu Tuong Tu , Huan Vu , cuong tien nguyen , Dien Hy Ngo , Nguyen Thi Thu Trang

Voice conversion (VC) techniques aim to modify speaker identity of an utterance while preserving the underlying linguistic information. Most VC approaches ignore modeling of the speaking style (e.g. emotion and emphasis), which may contain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Shiyin Kang , Na Hu , Xunying Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Helen Meng

Voice conversion (VC) using sequence-to-sequence learning of context posterior probabilities is proposed. Conventional VC using shared context posterior probabilities predicts target speech parameters from the context posterior…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hiroyuki Miyoshi , Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

The rapid advancement of AI-generated singing voices, which now closely mimic natural human singing and align seamlessly with musical scores, has led to heightened concerns for artists and the music industry. Unlike spoken voice, singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-09 You Zhang , Yongyi Zang , Jiatong Shi , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Jionghao Han , Yuxun Tang , Tomoki Toda , Zhiyao Duan

This report describes our speaker verification systems for the tasks of the CN-Celeb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2022 (CNSRC 2022). This challenge includes two tasks, namely speaker verification(SV) and speaker retrieval(SR). The SV task…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Yu Zheng , Yihao Chen , Jinghan Peng , Yajun Zhang , Min Liu , Minqiang Xu

This paper proposes a voice conversion (VC) method based on a sequence-to-sequence (S2S) learning framework, which enables simultaneous conversion of the voice characteristics, pitch contour, and duration of input speech. We previously…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Hirokazu Kameoka , Wen-Chin Huang , Kou Tanaka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Nobukatsu Hojo , Tomoki Toda

Voice conversion (VC) and text-to-speech (TTS) are two tasks that share a similar objective, generating speech with a target voice. However, they are usually developed independently under vastly different frameworks. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi

This document outlines the Text-dependent Speaker Verification (TdSV) Challenge 2024, which centers on analyzing and exploring novel approaches for text-dependent speaker verification. The primary goal of this challenge is to motive…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zeinali Hossein , Lee Kong Aik , Alam Jahangir , Burget Lukas

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

This work details our approach to achieving a leading system with a 1.79% pooled equal error rate (EER) on the evaluation set of the Controlled Singing Voice Deepfake Detection (CtrSVDD). The rapid advancement of generative AI models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Anmol Guragain , Tianchi Liu , Zihan Pan , Hardik B. Sailor , Qiongqiong Wang

In voice conversion (VC), an approach showing promising results in the latest voice conversion challenge (VCC) 2020 is to first use an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model to transcribe the source speech into the underlying linguistic…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Xinjian Li , Shinji Watanabe , Tomoki Toda

This document describes the Short-duration Speaker Verification (SdSV) Challenge 2021. The main goal of the challenge is to evaluate new technologies for text-dependent (TD) and text-independent (TI) speaker verification (SV) in a short…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Hossein Zeinali , Kong Aik Lee , Jahangir Alam , Lukas Burget

Neural evaluation metrics derived for numerous speech generation tasks have recently attracted great attention. In this paper, we propose SVSNet, the first end-to-end neural network model to assess the speaker voice similarity between…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Cheng-Hung Hu , Yu-Huai Peng , Junichi Yamagishi , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

With the advancements in singing voice generation and the growing presence of AI singers on media platforms, the inaugural Singing Voice Deepfake Detection (SVDD) Challenge aims to advance research in identifying AI-generated singing voices…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 You Zhang , Yongyi Zang , Jiatong Shi , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Tomoki Toda , Zhiyao Duan

Singing voice conversion aims to transform a source singing voice into that of a target singer while preserving the original lyrics, melody, and various vocal techniques. In this paper, we propose a high-fidelity singing voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yiquan Zhou , Wenyu Wang , Hongwu Ding , Jiacheng Xu , Jihua Zhu , Xin Gao , Shihao Li

Any-to-any singing voice conversion (SVC) is confronted with the challenge of ``timbre leakage'' issue caused by inadequate disentanglement between the content and the speaker timbre. To address this issue, this study introduces NeuCoSVC, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Binzhu Sha , Xu Li , Zhiyong Wu , Ying Shan , Helen Meng

Voice conversion (VC) aims at conversion of speaker characteristic without altering content. Due to training data limitations and modeling imperfections, it is difficult to achieve believable speaker mimicry without introducing processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-05 Tomi Kinnunen , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba , Junichi Yamagishi , Tomoki Toda , Daisuke Saito , Fernando Villavicencio , Zhenhua Ling

This paper presents a novel framework to build a voice conversion (VC) system by learning from a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system, that is called TTS-VC transfer learning. We first develop a multi-speaker speech synthesis system with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-07 Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Li Zhao , Haizhou Li