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In accented voice conversion or accent conversion, we seek to convert the accent in speech from one another while preserving speaker identity and semantic content. In this study, we formulate a novel method for creating multi-accented…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Sho Inoue , Shuai Wang , Wanxing Wang , Pengcheng Zhu , Mengxiao Bi , Haizhou Li

Building dialogue generation systems in a zero-shot scenario remains a huge challenge, since the typical zero-shot approaches in dialogue generation rely heavily on large-scale pre-trained language generation models such as GPT-3 and T5.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Yongkang Liu , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang

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

The Multi-speaker Multi-style Voice Cloning Challenge (M2VoC) aims to provide a common sizable dataset as well as a fair testbed for the benchmarking of the popular voice cloning task. Specifically, we formulate the challenge to adapt an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Qicong Xie , Xiaohai Tian , Guanghou Liu , Kun Song , Lei Xie , Zhiyong Wu , Hai Li , Song Shi , Haizhou Li , Fen Hong , Hui Bu , Xin Xu

This paper presents a cross-lingual voice conversion framework that adopts a modularized neural network. The modularized neural network has a common input structure that is shared for both languages, and two separate output modules, one for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Yi Zhou , Xiaohai Tian , Emre Yılmaz , Rohan Kumar Das , Haizhou Li

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

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

We propose a new paradigm for maintaining speaker identity in dysarthric voice conversion (DVC). The poor quality of dysarthric speech can be greatly improved by statistical VC, but as the normal speech utterances of a dysarthria patient…

Voice conversion refers to transferring speaker identity with well-preserved content. Better disentanglement of speech representations leads to better voice conversion. Recent studies have found that phonetic information from input audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yimin Deng , Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

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

The goal of voice conversion is to transform source speech into a target voice, keeping the content unchanged. In this paper, we focus on self-supervised representation learning for voice conversion. Specifically, we compare discrete and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Benjamin van Niekerk , Marc-André Carbonneau , Julian Zaïdi , Mathew Baas , Hugo Seuté , Herman Kamper

Non-parallel voice conversion (VC) is a technique for training voice converters without a parallel corpus. Cycle-consistent adversarial network-based VCs (CycleGAN-VC and CycleGAN-VC2) are widely accepted as benchmark methods. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Nobukatsu Hojo

Recently, there have been significant advancements in voice conversion, resulting in high-quality performance. However, there are still two critical challenges in this field. Firstly, current voice conversion methods have limited robustness…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Le Xu , Jiangyan Yi , Tao Wang , Yong Ren , Rongxiu Zhong , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao

As a foundational technology for intelligent human-computer interaction, voice conversion (VC) seeks to transform speech from any source timbre into any target timbre. Traditional voice conversion methods based on Generative Adversarial…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wenhan Yao , Fen Xiao , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , YongQiang He , Weiping Wen

Streaming voice conversion (VC) is the task of converting the voice of one person to another in real-time. Previous streaming VC methods use phonetic posteriorgrams (PPGs) extracted from automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Yuanzhe Chen , Ming Tu , Tang Li , Xin Li , Qiuqiang Kong , Jiaxin Li , Zhichao Wang , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang

Singing voice conversion is converting the timbre in the source singing to the target speaker's voice while keeping singing content the same. However, singing data for target speaker is much more difficult to collect compared with normal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Liqiang Zhang , Chengzhu Yu , Heng Lu , Chao Weng , Chunlei Zhang , Yusong Wu , Xiang Xie , Zijin Li , Dong Yu

Streaming voice conversion has become increasingly popular for its potential in real-time applications. The recently proposed DualVC 2 has achieved robust and high-quality streaming voice conversion with a latency of about 180ms.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Ziqian Ning , Shuai Wang , Pengcheng Zhu , Zhichao Wang , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie , Mengxiao Bi

This paper introduces Taco-VC, a novel architecture for voice conversion based on Tacotron synthesizer, which is a sequence-to-sequence with attention model. The training of multi-speaker voice conversion systems requires a large number of…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Roee Levy Leshem , Raja Giryes

Direct speech-to-speech translation achieves high-quality results through the introduction of discrete units obtained from self-supervised learning. This approach circumvents delays and cascading errors associated with model cascading.…

Recent advancements in personalized speech generation have brought synthetic speech increasingly close to the realism of target speakers' recordings, yet multimodal speaker generation remains on the rise. This paper introduces UniSpeaker, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhengyan Sheng , Zhihao Du , Heng Lu , Shiliang Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling