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Singing voice synthesis (SVS) aims to generate expressive and high-quality vocals from musical scores, requiring precise modeling of pitch, duration, and articulation. While diffusion-based models have achieved remarkable success in image…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kehan Sui , Jinxu Xiang , Fang Jin

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

Deep learning techniques for separating audio into different sound sources face several challenges. Standard architectures require training separate models for different types of audio sources. Although some universal separators employ a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ke Chen , Xingjian Du , Bilei Zhu , Zejun Ma , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

Identity, accent, style, and emotions are essential components of human speech. Voice conversion (VC) techniques process the speech signals of two input speakers and other modalities of auxiliary information such as prompts and emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Xining Song , Zhihua Wei , Rui Wang , Haixiao Hu , Yanxiang Chen , Meng Han

Speech emotion conversion is the task of converting the expressed emotion of a spoken utterance to a target emotion while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. While most existing works in speech emotion conversion rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Navin Raj Prabhu , Bunlong Lay , Simon Welker , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock , Timo Gerkmann

Transformer-based models have dominated natural language processing and other areas in the last few years due to their superior (zero-shot) performance on benchmark datasets. However, these models are poorly understood due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Shaeke Salman , Md Montasir Bin Shams , Xiuwen Liu , Lingjiong Zhu

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

The goal of accent conversion (AC) is to convert the accent of speech into the target accent while preserving the content and speaker identity. AC enables a variety of applications, such as language learning, speech content creation, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Dongya Jia , Qiao Tian , Kainan Peng , Jiaxin Li , Yuanzhe Chen , Mingbo Ma , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang

We present VoiceShop, a novel speech-to-speech framework that can modify multiple attributes of speech, such as age, gender, accent, and speech style, in a single forward pass while preserving the input speaker's timbre. Previous works have…

Diffusion-based singing voice conversion (SVC) models have shown better synthesis quality compared to traditional methods. However, in cross-domain SVC scenarios, where there is a significant disparity in pitch between the source and target…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Bingsong Bai , Fengping Wang , Yingming Gao , Ya Li

In voice conversion (VC), it is crucial to preserve complete semantic information while accurately modeling the target speaker's timbre and prosody. This paper proposes FabasedVC to achieve VC with enhanced similarity in timbre, prosody,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Wenyu Wang , Zhetao Hu , Yiquan Zhou , Jiacheng Xu , Zhiyu Wu , Chen Li , Shihao Li

Existing large-scale zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) models deliver high speech quality but suffer from slow inference speeds due to massive parameters. To address this issue, this paper introduces ZipVoice, a high-quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Han Zhu , Wei Kang , Zengwei Yao , Liyong Guo , Fangjun Kuang , Zhaoqing Li , Weiji Zhuang , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

General-purpose audio representations aim to map acoustically variable instances of the same event to nearby points, resolving content identity in a zero-shot setting. Unlike supervised classification benchmarks that measure adaptability…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Maris Basha , Anja Zai , Sabine Stoll , Richard Hahnloser

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

Speech Translation (ST) is the task of translating speech in one language into text in another language. Traditional cascaded approaches for ST, using Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Machine Translation (MT) systems, are prone to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Tu Anh Dinh

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

We propose an unsupervised learning method to disentangle speech into content representation and speaker identity representation. We apply this method to the challenging one-shot cross-lingual voice conversion task to demonstrate the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Hui Lu , Disong Wang , Xixin Wu , Zhiyong Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Timbre transfer techniques aim at converting the sound of a musical piece generated by one instrument into the same one as if it was played by another instrument, while maintaining as much as possible the content in terms of musical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Luca Comanducci , Fabio Antonacci , Augusto Sarti

This paper revisits the neural vocoder task through the lens of audio restoration and propose a novel diffusion vocoder called BridgeVoC. Specifically, by rank analysis, we compare the rank characteristics of Mel-spectrum with other common…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Andong Li , Tong Lei , Rilin Chen , Kai Li , Meng Yu , Xiaodong Li , Dong Yu , Chengshi Zheng

One-shot voice cloning aims to transform speaker voice and speaking style in speech synthesized from a text-to-speech (TTS) system, where only a shot recording from the target reference speech can be used. Out-of-domain transfer is still a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Rui Li , Dong Pu , Minnie Huang , Bill Huang