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We present S$^2$Voice, the winning system of the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge (SVCC) 2025 for both the in-domain and zero-shot singing style conversion tracks. Built on the strong two-stage Vevo baseline, S$^2$Voice advances style…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Ziqian Wang , Xianjun Xia , Chuanzeng Huang , Lei Xie

Nowadays, as more and more systems achieve good performance in traditional voice conversion (VC) tasks, people's attention gradually turns to VC tasks under extreme conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel method for zero-shot voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Haozhe Zhang , Zexin Cai , Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li

Speaker Verification (SV) is a task to verify the claimed identity of the claimant using his/her voice sample. Though there exists an ample amount of research in SV technologies, the development concerning a multilingual conversation is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Jagabandhu Mishra , Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee , S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna

We propose a unified framework for Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) and Conversion (SVC), addressing the limitations of existing approaches in cross-domain SVS/SVC, poor output musicality, and scarcity of singing data. Our framework enables…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Shuqi Dai , Yunyun Wang , Roger B. Dannenberg , Zeyu Jin

With the proliferation of speech deepfake generators, it becomes crucial not only to assess the authenticity of synthetic audio but also to trace its origin. While source attribution models attempt to address this challenge, they often…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Viola Negroni , Davide Salvi , Paolo Bestagini , Stefano Tubaro

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems in practice are greatly vulnerable to spoofing attacks. The latest voice conversion technologies are able to produce perceptually natural sounding speech that mimics any target speakers. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-30 Xiaohai Tian , Rohan Kumar Das , Haizhou Li

In this paper, we describe our speech generation system for the first Audio Deep Synthesis Detection Challenge (ADD 2022). Firstly, we build an any-to-many voice conversion (VC) system to convert source speech with arbitrary language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Cheng Wen , Tingwei Guo , Xingjun Tan , Rui Yan , Shuran Zhou , Chuandong Xie , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

This paper introduces FastVC, an end-to-end model for fast Voice Conversion (VC). The proposed model can convert speech of arbitrary length from multiple source speakers to multiple target speakers. FastVC is based on a conditional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Oriol Barbany Mayor , Milos Cernak

Voice conversion (VC) is a task to transform a person's voice to different style while conserving linguistic contents. Previous state-of-the-art on VC is based on sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model, which could mislead linguistic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Tae-Ho Kim , Sungjae Cho , Shinkook Choi , Sejik Park , Soo-Young Lee

Applying changes to an input speech signal to change the perceived speaker of speech to a target while maintaining the content of the input is a challenging but interesting task known as Voice conversion (VC). Over the last few years, this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Olga Slizovskaia , Jordi Janer , Pritish Chandna , Oscar Mayor

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) system is a type of bio-metric authentication. It can be attacked by an intruder, who falsifies data in order to get access to protected information. Countermeasures (CM) are special algorithms that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Petr Grinberg , Vladislav Shikhov

This paper describes the TSUP team's submission to the ISCSLP 2022 conversational short-phrase speaker diarization (CSSD) challenge which particularly focuses on short-phrase conversations with a new evaluation metric called conversational…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Bowen Pang , Huan Zhao , Gaosheng Zhang , Xiaoyue Yang , Yang Sun , Li Zhang , Qing Wang , Lei Xie

Recent advances in sophisticated synthetic speech generated from text-to-speech (TTS) or voice conversion (VC) systems cause threats to the existing automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems. Since such synthetic speech is generated from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Youngsik Eom , Yeonghyeon Lee , Ji Sub Um , Hoirin Kim

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…

The INTERSPEECH 2020 Far-Field Speaker Verification Challenge (FFSVC 2020) addresses three different research problems under well-defined conditions: far-field text-dependent speaker verification from single microphone array, far-field…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li , Hui Bu , Wei Rao , Rohan Kumar Das , Shrikanth Narayanan , Haizhou Li

Multi-talker speech recognition (MTASR) faces unique challenges in disentangling and transcribing overlapping speech. To address these challenges, this paper investigates the role of Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) in speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Jiawen Kang , Lingwei Meng , Mingyu Cui , Yuejiao Wang , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

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

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

This paper presents a novel framework for multi-talker automatic speech recognition without the need for auxiliary information. Serialized Output Training (SOT), a widely used approach, suffers from recognition errors due to speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Asahi Sakuma , Hiroaki Sato , Ryuga Sugano , Tadashi Kumano , Yoshihiko Kawai , Tetsuji Ogawa

Verifying the identity of a speaker is crucial in modern human-machine interfaces, e.g., to ensure privacy protection or to enable biometric authentication. Classical speaker verification (SV) approaches estimate a fixed-dimensional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Ahmad Aloradi , Wolfgang Mack , Mohamed Elminshawi , Emanuël A. P. Habets