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Current Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems typically use separate models for speech-prompted and text-prompted timbre control. While unifying both control signals into a single model is desirable, the challenge of cross-modal alignment often…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zihao Zheng , Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Mengyue Wu , Xuenan Xu

Voice conversion (VC) aims to modify the speaker's timbre while retaining speech content. Previous approaches have tokenized the outputs from self-supervised into semantic tokens, facilitating disentanglement of speech content information.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhengyang Chen , Shuai Wang , Mingyang Zhang , Xuechen Liu , Junichi Yamagishi , Yanmin Qian

Visual language models encounter challenges in computational efficiency and latency, primarily due to the substantial redundancy in the token representations of high-resolution images and videos. Current attention/similarity-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dehua Zheng , Mouxiao Huang , Borui Jiang , Hailin Hu , Xinghao Chen

Nowadays, it is common to release audio content to the public. However, with the rise of voice cloning technology, attackers have the potential to easily impersonate a specific person by utilizing his publicly released audio without any…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Chang Liu , Jie Zhang , Tianwei Zhang , Xi Yang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Using unsupervised learning to disentangle speech into content, rhythm, pitch, and timbre for voice conversion has become a hot research topic. Existing works generally take into account disentangling speech components through human-crafted…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Ziqi Liang , Jianzong Wang , Xulong Zhang , Yong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Recent advancements in speech-language models have yielded significant improvements in speech tokenization and synthesis. However, effectively mapping the complex, multidimensional attributes of speech into discrete tokens remains…

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

This paper introduces a set of acoustic modeling techniques for utterance verification (UV) based continuous speech recognition (CSR). Utterance verification in this work implies the ability to determine when portions of a hypothesized word…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-22 M. Tharun Prasath

Reverberation encodes spatial information regarding the acoustic source environment, yet traditional Speech Restoration (SR) usually completely removes reverberation. We propose ReverbMiipher, an SR model extending parametric resynthesis…

Singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to render the target singer's timbre while preserving melody and lyrics. However, existing zero-shot SVC systems remain fragile in real songs due to harmony interference, F0 errors, and the lack of…

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

Neural speech codecs aim to compress input signals into minimal bits while maintaining content quality in a low-latency manner. However, existing neural codecs often trade model complexity for reconstruction performance. These codecs…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yuzhe Gu , Enmao Diao

Voice Conversion (VC) converts the voice of a source speech to that of a target while maintaining the source's content. Speech can be mainly decomposed into four components: content, timbre, rhythm and pitch. Unfortunately, most related…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Zhonghua Liu , Shijun Wang , Ning Chen

Non-parallel voice conversion (VC) is typically achieved using lossy representations of the source speech. However, ensuring only speaker identity information is dropped whilst all other information from the source speech is retained is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Thomas Merritt , Abdelhamid Ezzerg , Piotr Biliński , Magdalena Proszewska , Kamil Pokora , Roberto Barra-Chicote , Daniel Korzekwa

Voice conversion (VC) can be achieved by first extracting source content information and target speaker information, and then reconstructing waveform with these information. However, current approaches normally either extract dirty content…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jingyi li , Weiping tu , Li xiao

In real-world voice conversion applications, environmental noise in source speech and user demands for expressive output pose critical challenges. Traditional ASR-based methods ensure noise robustness but suppress prosody richness, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Yuepeng Jiang , Ziqian Ning , Shuai Wang , Chengjia Wang , Mengxiao Bi , Pengcheng Zhu , Zhonghua Fu , Lei Xie

One-shot voice conversion (VC), which performs conversion across arbitrary speakers with only a single target-speaker utterance for reference, can be effectively achieved by speech representation disentanglement. Existing work generally…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Disong Wang , Liqun Deng , Yu Ting Yeung , Xiao Chen , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Voice conversion (VC) aims to modify the speaker's identity while preserving the linguistic content. Commonly, VC methods use an encoder-decoder architecture, where disentangling the speaker's identity from linguistic information is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Philip H. Lee , Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Berrak Sisman

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

Any-to-any voice conversion (VC) aims to convert the timbre of utterances from and to any speakers seen or unseen during training. Various any-to-any VC approaches have been proposed like AUTOVC, AdaINVC, and FragmentVC. AUTOVC, and AdaINVC…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Jheng-hao Lin , Yist Y. Lin , Chung-Ming Chien , Hung-yi Lee