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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

As parallel training data is scarce for one-shot voice conversion (VC) tasks, waveform reconstruction is typically performed by various VC systems. A typical one-shot VC system comprises a content encoder and a speaker encoder. However, two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Songjun Cao , Qinghua Wu , Jie Chen , Jin Li , Long Ma

Zero-shot speaker adaptation aims to clone an unseen speaker's voice without any adaptation time and parameters. Previous researches usually use a speaker encoder to extract a global fixed speaker embedding from reference speech, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yixuan Zhou , Changhe Song , Xiang Li , Luwen Zhang , Zhiyong Wu , Yanyao Bian , Dan Su , Helen Meng

We study the problem of cross-lingual voice conversion in non-parallel speech corpora and one-shot learning setting. Most prior work require either parallel speech corpora or enough amount of training data from a target speaker. However, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi , Taehwan Kim

Recently, zero-shot TTS and VC methods have gained attention due to their practicality of being able to generate voices even unseen during training. Among these methods, zero-shot modifications of the VITS model have shown superior…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-29 Seongyeon Park , Bohyung Kim , Tae-hyun Oh

This paper presents a new voice conversion (VC) framework capable of dealing with both additive noise and reverberation, and its performance evaluation. There have been studied some VC researches focusing on real-world circumstances where…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yeonjong Choi , Chao Xie , Tomoki Toda

With recent advancements in voice cloning, the performance of speech synthesis for a target speaker has been rendered similar to the human level. However, autoregressive voice cloning systems still suffer from text alignment failures,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Artem Gorodetskii , Ivan Ozhiganov

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

Cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks have been widely used in non-parallel voice conversion (VC). Their ability to learn mappings between source and target features without relying on parallel training data eliminates the need…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dominik Wagner , Ilja Baumann , Tobias Bocklet

Voice style conversion aims to transform an input utterance to match a target speaker's timbre, accent, and emotion, with a central challenge being the disentanglement of linguistic content from style. While prior work has explored this…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yisi Liu , Nicholas Lee , Gopala Anumanchipalli

Zero-shot Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis shows great promise for personalized voice customization through voice cloning. However, current methods for achieving zero-shot TTS heavily rely on large model scales and extensive training datasets…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Qianniu Chen , Xiaoyang Hao , Bowen Li , Yue Liu , Li Lu

The goal of accent conversion (AC) is to convert the accent of speech into the target accent while preserving the content and speaker identity. AC enables a variety of applications, such as language learning, speech content creation, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Dongya Jia , Qiao Tian , Kainan Peng , Jiaxin Li , Yuanzhe Chen , Mingbo Ma , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang

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

StreamVoice has recently pushed the boundaries of zero-shot voice conversion (VC) in the streaming domain. It uses a streamable language model (LM) with a context-aware approach to convert semantic features from automatic speech recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Zhichao Wang , Yuanzhe Chen , Xinsheng Wang , Lei Xie , Yuping Wang

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

The fusion of vision and language has brought about a transformative shift in computer vision through the emergence of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, the resource-intensive nature of existing VLMs poses a significant challenge. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jordan Shipard , Arnold Wiliem , Kien Nguyen Thanh , Wei Xiang , Clinton Fookes

In this paper, we explore a method for training speech-to-speech translation tasks without any transcription or linguistic supervision. Our proposed method consists of two steps: First, we train and generate discrete representation with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) powered by language models have showcased remarkable capabilities in achieving naturalness and zero-shot voice cloning. Notably, the decoder-only transformer is the prominent architecture in this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Théodor Lemerle , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

This paper presents a novel framework to build a voice conversion (VC) system by learning from a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system, that is called TTS-VC transfer learning. We first develop a multi-speaker speech synthesis system with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-07 Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Li Zhao , Haizhou Li

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