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Voice style transfer, also called voice conversion, seeks to modify one speaker's voice to generate speech as if it came from another (target) speaker. Previous works have made progress on voice conversion with parallel training data and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Siyang Yuan , Pengyu Cheng , Ruiyi Zhang , Weituo Hao , Zhe Gan , Lawrence Carin

Voice Conversion (VC) aims to convert the style of a source speaker, such as timbre and pitch, to the style of any target speaker while preserving the linguistic content. However, the ground truth of the converted speech does not exist in a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Ziqi Liang , Xulong Zhang , Chang Liu , Xiaoyang Qu , Weifeng Zhao , Jianzong Wang

Voice conversion has emerged as a pivotal technology in numerous applications ranging from assistive communication to entertainment. In this paper, we present RT-VC, a zero-shot real-time voice conversion system that delivers ultra-low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Yisi Liu , Chenyang Wang , Hanjo Kim , Raniya Khan , Gopala Anumanchipalli

Voice Conversion (VC) is a technique that aims to transform the non-linguistic information of a source utterance to change the perceived identity of the speaker. While there is a rich literature on VC, most proposed methods are trained and…

Despite remarkable advancements in recent voice conversion (VC) systems, enhancing speaker similarity in zero-shot scenarios remains challenging. This challenge arises from the difficulty of generalizing and adapting speaker characteristics…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ha-Yeong Choi , Jaehan Park

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

We introduce MaskVCT, a zero-shot voice conversion (VC) model that offers multi-factor controllability through multiple classifier-free guidances (CFGs). While previous VC models rely on a fixed conditioning scheme, MaskVCT integrates…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Junhyeok Lee , Helin Wang , Yaohan Guan , Thomas Thebaud , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak

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

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) converts source speech into the voice of any desired speaker using only one utterance of the speaker without requiring additional model updates. Typical methods use a speaker representation from a pre-trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Zhichao Wang , Liumeng Xue , Qiuqiang Kong , Lei Xie , Yuanzhe Chen , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang

Style voice conversion aims to transform the style of source speech to a desired style according to real-world application demands. However, the current style voice conversion approach relies on pre-defined labels or reference speech to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Jixun Yao , Yuguang Yang , Yi Lei , Ziqian Ning , Yanni Hu , Yu Pan , Jingjing Yin , Hongbin Zhou , Heng Lu , Lei Xie

Singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to convert a singer's voice to another singer's from a reference audio while keeping the original semantics. However, existing SVC methods can hardly perform zero-shot due to incomplete feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zihao Wang , Le Ma , Yongsheng Feng , Xin Pan , Yuhang Jin , Kejun Zhang

In this work, we propose a zero-shot voice conversion method using speech representations trained with self-supervised learning. First, we develop a multi-task model to decompose a speech utterance into features such as linguistic content,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Shehzeen Hussain , Paarth Neekhara , Jocelyn Huang , Jason Li , Boris Ginsburg

Currently, zero-shot voice conversion systems are capable of synthesizing the voice of unseen speakers. However, most existing approaches struggle to accurately replicate the speaking style of the source speaker or mimic the distinctive…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Kaidi Wang , Wenhao Guan , Ziyue Jiang , Hukai Huang , Peijie Chen , Weijie Wu , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

Voice cloning (VC)-resistant watermarking is an emerging technique for tracing and preventing unauthorized cloning. Existing methods effectively trace traditional VC models by training them on watermarked audio but fail in zero-shot VC…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Haiyun Li , Zhiyong Wu , Xiaofeng Xie , Jingran Xie , Yaoxun Xu , Hanyang Peng

Voice conversion (VC) modifies voice characteristics while preserving linguistic content. This paper presents the Stepback network, a novel model for converting speaker identity using non-parallel data. Unlike traditional VC methods that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Qian Yang , Calbert Graham

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

Face-based Voice Conversion (FVC) is a novel task that leverages facial images to generate the target speaker's voice style. Previous work has two shortcomings: (1) suffering from obtaining facial embeddings that are well-aligned with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Yan Rong , Li Liu

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

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

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