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This paper presents the T02 team's system for the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2023 (SVCC2023). Our system entails a VITS-based SVC model, incorporating three modules: a feature extractor, a voice converter, and a post-processor.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yiquan Zhou , Meng Chen , Yi Lei , Jihua Zhu , Weifeng Zhao

Multilingual speaker verification (SV) remains challenging due to limited cross-lingual data and language-dependent information in speaker embeddings. This paper presents a language-invariant multilingual SV system for the TidyVoice 2026…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Ze Li , Xiaoxiao Miao , Juan Liu , Ming Li

The goal of voice conversion is to transform the speech of a source speaker to sound like that of a reference speaker while preserving the original content. A key challenge is to extract disentangled linguistic content from the source and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jaehun Kim , Ji-Hoon Kim , Yeunju Choi , Tan Dat Nguyen , Seongkyu Mun , Joon Son Chung

Existing singing voice synthesis (SVS) models largely rely on fine-grained, phoneme-level durations, which limits their practical application. These methods overlook the complementary role of visual information in duration prediction.To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Ke Gu , Zhicong Wu , Peng Bai , Sitong Qiao , Zhiqi Jiang , Junchen Lu , Xiaodong Shi , Xinyuan Qian

Any-to-any singing voice conversion (SVC) is confronted with the challenge of ``timbre leakage'' issue caused by inadequate disentanglement between the content and the speaker timbre. To address this issue, this study introduces NeuCoSVC, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Binzhu Sha , Xu Li , Zhiyong Wu , Ying Shan , Helen Meng

We present OmniVoice, a massively multilingual zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) model that scales to over 600 languages. At its core is a novel diffusion language model-style discrete non-autoregressive (NAR) architecture. Unlike conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Han Zhu , Lingxuan Ye , Wei Kang , Zengwei Yao , Liyong Guo , Fangjun Kuang , Zhifeng Han , Weiji Zhuang , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

Building cross-lingual voice conversion (VC) systems for multiple speakers and multiple languages has been a challenging task for a long time. This paper describes a parallel non-autoregressive network to achieve bilingual and code-switched…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Yaogen Yang , Haozhe Zhang , Xiaoyi Qin , Shanshan Liang , Huahua Cui , Mingyang Xu , Ming Li

This paper studies zero-shot cross-lingual transfer of vision-language models. Specifically, we focus on multilingual text-to-video search and propose a Transformer-based model that learns contextualized multilingual multimodal embeddings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Po-Yao Huang , Mandela Patrick , Junjie Hu , Graham Neubig , Florian Metze , Alexander Hauptmann

This paper presents a novel task, zero-shot voice conversion based on face images (zero-shot FaceVC), which aims at converting the voice characteristics of an utterance from any source speaker to a newly coming target speaker, solely…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zheng-Yan Sheng , Yang Ai , Yan-Nian Chen , Zhen-Hua Ling

The goal of cross-speaker style transfer in TTS is to transfer a speech style from a source speaker with expressive data to a target speaker with only neutral data. In this context, we propose using a pre-trained singing voice conversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Leonardo B. de M. M. Marques , Lucas H. Ueda , Mário U. Neto , Flávio O. Simões , Fernando Runstein , Bianca Dal Bó , Paula D. P. Costa

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…

In this paper, we propose MakeSinger, a semi-supervised training method for singing voice synthesis (SVS) via classifier-free diffusion guidance. The challenge in SVS lies in the costly process of gathering aligned sets of text, pitch, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Semin Kim , Myeonghun Jeong , Hyeonseung Lee , Minchan Kim , Byoung Jin Choi , Nam Soo Kim

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 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…

Zero-shot voice conversion is becoming an increasingly popular research topic, as it promises the ability to transform speech to sound like any speaker. However, relatively little work has been done on end-to-end methods for this task,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-04 Wonjune Kang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Deb Roy

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert the original speaker's timbre to any target speaker while keeping the linguistic content. Current mainstream zero-shot voice conversion approaches depend on pre-trained recognition models to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yuke Li , Xinfa Zhu , Hanzhao Li , JiXun Yao , WenJie Tian , XiPeng Yang , YunLin Chen , Zhifei Li , Lei Xie

Recent developments in neural speech synthesis and vocoding have sparked a renewed interest in voice conversion (VC). Beyond timbre transfer, achieving controllability on para-linguistic parameters such as pitch and Speed is critical in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Meiying Chen , Zhiyao Duan

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) is a technique that enables any singer to perform any song. To achieve this, it is essential to obtain speaker-agnostic representations from the source audio, which poses a significant challenge. A common…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xueyao Zhang , Zihao Fang , Yicheng Gu , Haopeng Chen , Lexiao Zou , Junan Zhang , Liumeng Xue , Zhizheng Wu

Zero-shot voice conversion aims to transform a source speech utterance to match the timbre of a reference speech from an unseen speaker. Traditional approaches struggle with timbre leakage, insufficient timbre representation, and mismatches…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Songting Liu

Traditional studies on voice conversion (VC) have made progress with parallel training data and known speakers. Good voice conversion quality is obtained by exploring better alignment modules or expressive mapping functions. In this study,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Jiachen Lian , Chunlei Zhang , Dong Yu