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Free-form, text-based audio editing remains a persistent challenge, despite progress in inversion-based neural methods. Current approaches rely on slow inversion procedures, limiting their practicality. We present a virtual-consistency…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Matthieu Cervera , Francesco Paissan , Mirco Ravanelli , Cem Subakan

Voice conversion aims to modify the source speaker's voice to resemble the target speaker while preserving the original speech content. Despite notable advancements in voice conversion these days, multi-lingual voice conversion (including…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Jiawei Huang , Chen Zhang , Yi Ren , Ziyue Jiang , Zhenhui Ye , Jinglin Liu , Jinzheng He , Xiang Yin , Zhou Zhao

We propose TES-VC (Text-driven Environment and Speaker controllable Voice Conversion), a text-driven voice conversion framework with independent control of speaker timbre and environmental acoustics. TES-VC processes simultaneous text…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jiawei Jin , Zhihan Yang , Yixuan Zhou , Zhiyong Wu

Generative voice technologies are rapidly evolving, offering opportunities for more personalized and inclusive experiences. Traditional one-shot voice conversion (VC) requires a target recording during inference, limiting ease of usage in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Jiarui Hai , Karan Thakkar , Helin Wang , Zengyi Qin , Mounya Elhilali

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has gradually become popular as it has many advantages compared with cascade S2ST. However, current research mainly focuses on the accuracy of semantic translation and ignores the speech style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Kun Song , Yi Ren , Yi Lei , Chunfeng Wang , Kun Wei , Lei Xie , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma

Conventional voice conversion modifies voice characteristics from a source speaker to a target speaker, relying on audio input from both sides. However, this process becomes infeasible when clean audio is unavailable, such as in silent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yifan Liu , Yu Fang , Zhouhan Lin

Recently, voice conversion (VC) has been widely studied. Many VC systems use disentangle-based learning techniques to separate the speaker and the linguistic content information from a speech signal. Subsequently, they convert the voice by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Yen-Hao Chen , Da-Yi Wu , Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-yi Lee

The language model (LM) approach based on acoustic and linguistic prompts, such as VALL-E, has achieved remarkable progress in the field of zero-shot audio generation. However, existing methods still have some limitations: 1) repetitions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yakun Song , Zhuo Chen , Xiaofei Wang , Ziyang Ma , Xie Chen

Current talking face generation methods mainly focus on speech-lip synchronization. However, insufficient investigation on the facial talking style leads to a lifeless and monotonous avatar. Most previous works fail to imitate expressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Liyang Chen , Zhiyong Wu , Runnan Li , Weihong Bao , Jun Ling , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao

We present VoiceStar, the first zero-shot TTS model that achieves both output duration control and extrapolation. VoiceStar is an autoregressive encoder-decoder neural codec language model, that leverages a novel Progress-Monitoring Rotary…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Puyuan Peng , Shang-Wen Li , Abdelrahman Mohamed , David Harwath

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

Robustness is critical in zero-shot singing voice conversion (SVC). This paper introduces two novel methods to strengthen the robustness of the kNN-VC framework for SVC. First, kNN-VC's core representation, WavLM, lacks harmonic emphasis,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Keren Shao , Ke Chen , Matthew Baas , Shlomo Dubnov

This paper presents FastSVC, a light-weight cross-domain singing voice conversion (SVC) system, which can achieve high conversion performance, with inference speed 4x faster than real-time on CPUs. FastSVC uses Conformer-based phoneme…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Na Hu , Dan Su , Helen Meng

We propose a new speech discrete token vocoder, vec2wav 2.0, which advances voice conversion (VC). We use discrete tokens from speech self-supervised models as the content features of source speech, and treat VC as a prompted vocoding task.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Yiwei Guo , Zhihan Li , Junjie Li , Chenpeng Du , Hankun Wang , Shuai Wang , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

One-shot voice conversion aims to change the timbre of any source speech to match that of the unseen target speaker with only one speech sample. Existing methods face difficulties in satisfactory speech representation disentanglement and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Pengcheng Li , Jianzong Wang , Xulong Zhang , Yong Zhang , Jing Xiao , Ning Cheng

The advancement of diffusion-based text-to-music generation has opened new avenues for zero-shot music editing. However, existing methods fail to achieve stem-specific timbre transfer, which requires altering specific stems while strictly…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haowen Li , Tianxiang Li , Yi Yang , Boyu Cao , Qi Liu

Cross-lingual voice conversion (VC) is a task that aims to synthesize target voices with the same content while source and target speakers speak in different languages. Its challenge lies in the fact that the source and target data are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Che-Jui Chang

Voice conversion aims to convert source speech into a target voice using recordings of the target speaker as a reference. Newer models are producing increasingly realistic output. But what happens when models are fed with non-standard data,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Matthew Baas , Herman Kamper

Despite recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) models, audio-visual-to-audio-visual (AV2AV) translation still faces a critical challenge: maintaining speaker consistency between the original and translated vocal and facial features. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Sungwoo Cho , Jeongsoo Choi , Sungnyun Kim , Se-Young Yun