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Voice conversion (VC) and text-to-speech (TTS) are two tasks that share a similar objective, generating speech with a target voice. However, they are usually developed independently under vastly different frameworks. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi

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

Applying changes to an input speech signal to change the perceived speaker of speech to a target while maintaining the content of the input is a challenging but interesting task known as Voice conversion (VC). Over the last few years, this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Olga Slizovskaia , Jordi Janer , Pritish Chandna , Oscar Mayor

Streaming voice conversion has become increasingly popular for its potential in real-time applications. The recently proposed DualVC 2 has achieved robust and high-quality streaming voice conversion with a latency of about 180ms.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Ziqian Ning , Shuai Wang , Pengcheng Zhu , Zhichao Wang , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie , Mengxiao Bi

In this paper, we propose a novel voice conversion strategy to resolve the mismatch between the training and conversion scenarios when parallel speech corpus is unavailable for training. Based on auto-encoder and disentanglement frameworks,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Yoohwan Kwon , Soo-Whan Chung , Hee-Soo Heo , Hong-Goo Kang

Disentangling content and speaking style information is essential for zero-shot non-parallel voice conversion (VC). Our previous study investigated a novel framework with disentangled sequential variational autoencoder (DSVAE) as the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Jiachen Lian , Chunlei Zhang , Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli , Dong Yu

One-shot voice conversion has received significant attention since only one utterance from source speaker and target speaker respectively is required. Moreover, source speaker and target speaker do not need to be seen during training.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hongqiang Du , Lei Xie

We introduce MaskVCT, a zero-shot voice conversion (VC) model that offers multi-factor controllability through multiple classifier-free guidances (CFGs). While previous VC models rely on a fixed conditioning scheme, MaskVCT integrates…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Junhyeok Lee , Helin Wang , Yaohan Guan , Thomas Thebaud , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak

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

Voice conversion (VC) aims at conversion of speaker characteristic without altering content. Due to training data limitations and modeling imperfections, it is difficult to achieve believable speaker mimicry without introducing processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-05 Tomi Kinnunen , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba , Junichi Yamagishi , Tomoki Toda , Daisuke Saito , Fernando Villavicencio , Zhenhua Ling

Most current zero-shot voice conversion methods rely on externally supervised components, particularly speaker encoders, for training. To explore alternatives that eliminate this dependency, this paper introduces GenVC, a novel framework…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Zexin Cai , Henry Li Xinyuan , Ashi Garg , Leibny Paola García-Perera , Kevin Duh , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Matthew Wiesner , Nicholas Andrews

Voice Conversion (VC) aims to modify a speaker's timbre while preserving linguistic content. While recent VC models achieve strong performance, most struggle in real-time streaming scenarios due to high latency, dependence on ASR modules,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhao Guo , Ziqian Ning , Guobin Ma , 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

Identity, accent, style, and emotions are essential components of human speech. Voice conversion (VC) techniques process the speech signals of two input speakers and other modalities of auxiliary information such as prompts and emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Xining Song , Zhihua Wei , Rui Wang , Haixiao Hu , Yanxiang Chen , Meng Han

The widespread adoption of speech-based online services raises security and privacy concerns regarding the data that they use and share. If the data were compromised, attackers could exploit user speech to bypass speaker verification…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Ruibin Yuan , Yuxuan Wu , Jacob Li , Jaxter Kim

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

We introduce Wav2Seq, the first self-supervised approach to pre-train both parts of encoder-decoder models for speech data. We induce a pseudo language as a compact discrete representation, and formulate a self-supervised pseudo speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Felix Wu , Kwangyoun Kim , Shinji Watanabe , Kyu Han , Ryan McDonald , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Yoav Artzi

Voice imitation aims to transform source speech to match a reference speaker's timbre and speaking style while preserving linguistic content. A straightforward approach is to train on triplets of (source, reference, target), where source…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tao Feng , Yuxiang Wang , Yuancheng Wang , Xueyao Zhang , Dekun Chen , Chaoren Wang , Xun Guan , Zhizheng Wu

This paper addresses the prevalent issue of incorrect speech output in audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) systems, which is often caused by poor video quality and mismatched training and test data. We introduce a post-processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Wenze Ren , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Rong Chao , YouJin Li , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

One of the obstacles in many-to-many voice conversion is the requirement of the parallel training data, which contain pairs of utterances with the same linguistic content spoken by different speakers. Since collecting such parallel data is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Keonnyeong Lee , In-Chul Yoo , Dongsuk Yook