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Nowadays, recognition-synthesis-based methods have been quite popular with voice conversion (VC). By introducing linguistics features with good disentangling characters extracted from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, the VC…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Xintao Zhao , Shuai Wang , Yang Chao , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng

Previous approaches on accent conversion (AC) mainly aimed at making non-native speech sound more native while maintaining the original content and speaker identity. However, non-native speakers sometimes have pronunciation issues, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Tuan Nam Nguyen , Seymanur Akti , Ngoc Quan Pham , Alexander Waibel

This paper investigates the semi-discrete optimal transport (OT) problem with entropic regularization. We characterize the solution using a governing, well-posed ordinary differential equation (ODE). This naturally yields an algorithm to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Luca Nenna , Daniyar Omarov , Brendan Pass

Animating 3D head meshes using audio inputs has significant applications in AR/VR, gaming, and entertainment through 3D avatars. However, bridging the modality gap between speech signals and facial dynamics remains a challenge, often…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xinmu Wang , Xiang Gao , Xiyun Song , Heather Yu , Zongfang Lin , Liang Peng , Xianfeng Gu

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

An orthogonal discrete auditory transform (ODAT) from sound signal to spectrum is constructed by combining the auditory spreading matrix of Schroeder et al and the time one map of a discrete nonlocal Schr\"odinger equation. Thanks to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jack Xin , Yingyong Qi

This paper introduces Factorized MKL-VC, a training-free modification for kNN-VC pipeline. In contrast with original pipeline, our algorithm performs high quality any-to-any cross-lingual voice conversion with only 5 second of reference…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Alexander Lobashev , Assel Yermekova , Maria Larchenko

This research project investigates the application of deep learning to timbre transfer, where the timbre of a source audio can be converted to the timbre of a target audio with minimal loss in quality. The adopted approach combines…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Russell Sammut Bonnici , Charalampos Saitis , Martin Benning

Voice conversion (VC) models have demonstrated impressive few-shot conversion quality on the clean, native speech populations they're trained on. However, when source or target speech accents, background noise conditions, or microphone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Avani Tanna , Michael Saxon , Amr El Abbadi , William Yang Wang

Generative audio technologies now enable highly realistic voice cloning and real-time voice conversion, increasing the risk of impersonation, fraud, and misinformation in communication channels such as phone and video calls. This study…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Prajwal Chinchmalatpure , Suyash Chinchmalatpure , Siddharth Chavan

Voice conversion is a method that allows for the transformation of speaking style while maintaining the integrity of linguistic information. There are many researchers using deep generative models for voice conversion tasks. Generative…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

In this paper, we present an open-source software for developing a nonparallel voice conversion (VC) system named crank. Although we have released an open-source VC software based on the Gaussian mixture model named sprocket in the last VC…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Kazuhiro Kobayashi , Wen-Chin Huang , Yi-Chiao Wu , Patrick Lumban Tobing , Tomoki Hayashi , Tomoki Toda

The ideal goal of voice conversion is to convert the source speaker's speech to sound naturally like the target speaker while maintaining the linguistic content and the prosody of the source speech. However, current approaches are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Qicong Xie , Shan Yang , Yi Lei , Lei Xie , Dan Su

We propose integrating optimal transport (OT) into operator learning for partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex geometries. Classical geometric learning methods typically represent domains as meshes, graphs, or point clouds. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xinyi Li , Zongyi Li , Nikola Kovachki , Anima Anandkumar

Voice conversion (VC) has made progress in feature disentanglement, but it is still difficult to balance timbre and content information. This paper evaluates the pre-trained model features commonly used in voice conversion, and proposes an…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Wenyu Wang , Yiquan Zhou , Jihua Zhu , Hongwu Ding , Jiacheng Xu , Shihao Li

Voice conversion is a challenging task which transforms the voice characteristics of a source speaker to a target speaker without changing linguistic content. Recently, there have been many works on many-to-many Voice Conversion (VC) based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Manh Luong , Viet Anh Tran

Precise control over speech characteristics, such as pitch, duration, and speech rate, remains a significant challenge in the field of voice conversion. The ability to manipulate parameters like pitch and syllable rate is an important…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mathilde Abrassart , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

Pre-trained vision-language models, e.g. CLIP, have been increasingly used to address the challenging Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) task, benefiting from their well-aligned vision-text embedding space. Typical solutions involve either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Siyu Jiao , Hongguang Zhu , Jiannan Huang , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi

This paper introduces PFlow-VC, a conditional flow matching voice conversion model that leverages fine-grained discrete pitch tokens and target speaker prompt information for expressive voice conversion (VC). Previous VC works primarily…

We propose a neural network for zero-shot voice conversion (VC) without any parallel or transcribed data. Our approach uses pre-trained models for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker embedding, obtained from a speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yurii Rebryk , Stanislav Beliaev