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Although voice conversion (VC) systems have shown a remarkable ability to transfer voice style, existing methods still have an inaccurate pitch and low speaker adaptation quality. To address these challenges, we introduce Diff-HierVC, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Ha-Yeong Choi , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Large pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have shown great potential in learning representations that are transferable across a wide range of downstream tasks. Different from the traditional representation learning that is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Kaiyang Zhou , Jingkang Yang , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

This paper presents AC-VC (Almost Causal Voice Conversion), a phonetic posteriorgrams based voice conversion system that can perform any-to-many voice conversion while having only 57.5 ms future look-ahead. The complete system is composed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Damien Ronssin , Milos Cernak

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems have seen significant advancements in recent years, driven by improvements in deep learning and neural network architectures. Viewing the output speech as a data distribution, previous approaches often employ…

Large pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have transformed computer vision by aligning images and text in a shared feature space, enabling robust zero-shot transfer via prompting. Soft-prompting, such as Context Optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Arsham Gholamzadeh Khoee , Yinan Yu , Robert Feldt

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

Never having seen an object and heard its sound simultaneously, can the model still accurately localize its visual position from the input audio? In this work, we concentrate on the Audio-Visual Localization and Segmentation tasks but under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Yaoting Wang , Weisong Liu , Guangyao Li , Jian Ding , Di Hu , Xi Li

Large-scale contrastive vision-language pre-training has shown significant progress in visual representation learning. Unlike traditional visual systems trained by a fixed set of discrete labels, a new paradigm was introduced in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Peng Gao , Shijie Geng , Renrui Zhang , Teli Ma , Rongyao Fang , Yongfeng Zhang , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao

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

Recent advancements in generative speech models based on audio-text prompts have enabled remarkable innovations like high-quality zero-shot text-to-speech. However, existing models still face limitations in handling diverse audio-text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Xiaofei Wang , Manthan Thakker , Zhuo Chen , Naoyuki Kanda , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Sanyuan Chen , Min Tang , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka

Creating realistic and natural-sounding synthetic speech remains a big challenge for voice identities unseen during training. As there is growing interest in synthesizing voices of new speakers, here we investigate the ability of…

The zero-shot performance of object detectors degrades when tested on different modalities, such as infrared and depth. While recent work has explored image translation techniques to adapt detectors to new modalities, these methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Heitor R. Medeiros , Atif Belal , Srikanth Muralidharan , Eric Granger , Marco Pedersoli

Speech synthesis models convert written text into natural-sounding audio. While earlier models were limited to a single speaker, recent advancements have led to the development of zero-shot systems that generate realistic speech from a wide…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Łukasz Bondaruk , Jakub Kubiak

A diffusion-based voice conversion (VC) model (e.g., VoiceGrad) can achieve high speech quality and speaker similarity; however, its conversion process is slow owing to iterative sampling. FastVoiceGrad overcomes this limitation by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

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

Conventional text-to-speech (TTS) research has predominantly focused on enhancing the quality of synthesized speech for speakers in the training dataset. The challenge of synthesizing lifelike speech for unseen, out-of-dataset speakers,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Wenbin Wang , Yang Song , Sanjay Jha

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 notable gap between user-provided and model-preferred prompts poses a significant challenge for generating high-quality images with text-to-image models, compelling the need for prompt engineering. Current studies on prompt engineering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shiyu Wu , Mingzhen Sun , Weining Wang , Yequan Wang , Jing Liu

Large-scale generative models such as GPT and DALL-E have revolutionized the research community. These models not only generate high fidelity outputs, but are also generalists which can solve tasks not explicitly taught. In contrast, speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-20 Matthew Le , Apoorv Vyas , Bowen Shi , Brian Karrer , Leda Sari , Rashel Moritz , Mary Williamson , Vimal Manohar , Yossi Adi , Jay Mahadeokar , Wei-Ning Hsu

This paper presents a novel zero-shot learning approach towards personalized speech enhancement through the use of a sparsely active ensemble model. Optimizing speech denoising systems towards a particular test-time speaker can improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim