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In voice conversion (VC), it is crucial to preserve complete semantic information while accurately modeling the target speaker's timbre and prosody. This paper proposes FabasedVC to achieve VC with enhanced similarity in timbre, prosody,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Wenyu Wang , Zhetao Hu , Yiquan Zhou , Jiacheng Xu , Zhiyu Wu , Chen Li , Shihao Li

We propose a speech enhancement system that combines speaker-agnostic speech restoration with voice conversion (VC) to obtain a studio-level quality speech signal. While voice conversion models are typically used to change speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer the timbre from the source speaker to an arbitrary unseen speaker while preserving the original linguistic content. Despite recent advancements in zero-shot VC using language model-based or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Jixun Yao , Yuguang Yang , Yu Pan , Ziqian Ning , Jiaohao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Xie

Voice conversion (VC) techniques aim to modify speaker identity of an utterance while preserving the underlying linguistic information. Most VC approaches ignore modeling of the speaking style (e.g. emotion and emphasis), which may contain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Shiyin Kang , Na Hu , Xunying Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Helen Meng

Voice Conversion (VC) emerged as a significant domain of research in the field of speech synthesis in recent years due to its emerging application in voice-assisting technology, automated movie dubbing, and speech-to-singing conversion to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Sandipan Dhar , Nanda Dulal Jana , Swagatam Das

Voice conversion (VC) is a task that transforms the source speaker's timbre, accent, and tones in audio into another one's while preserving the linguistic content. It is still a challenging work, especially in a one-shot setting.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Da-Yi Wu , Yen-Hao Chen , Hung-Yi Lee

Voice conversion (VC) using sequence-to-sequence learning of context posterior probabilities is proposed. Conventional VC using shared context posterior probabilities predicts target speech parameters from the context posterior…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hiroyuki Miyoshi , Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

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

Voice conversion refers to transferring speaker identity with well-preserved content. Better disentanglement of speech representations leads to better voice conversion. Recent studies have found that phonetic information from input audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yimin Deng , Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

This paper proposes RefXVC, a method for cross-lingual voice conversion (XVC) that leverages reference information to improve conversion performance. Previous XVC works generally take an average speaker embedding to condition the speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Yi Ren , Chen Zhang , Xiang Yin , Haizhou Li

We propose TES-VC (Text-driven Environment and Speaker controllable Voice Conversion), a text-driven voice conversion framework with independent control of speaker timbre and environmental acoustics. TES-VC processes simultaneous text…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jiawei Jin , Zhihan Yang , Yixuan Zhou , Zhiyong Wu

Voice conversion (VC) systems are widely used for several applications, from speaker anonymisation to personalised speech synthesis. Supervised approaches learn a mapping between different speakers using parallel data, which is expensive to…

This paper introduces FastVC, an end-to-end model for fast Voice Conversion (VC). The proposed model can convert speech of arbitrary length from multiple source speakers to multiple target speakers. FastVC is based on a conditional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Oriol Barbany Mayor , Milos Cernak

Face-based Voice Conversion (FVC) is a novel task that leverages facial images to generate the target speaker's voice style. Previous work has two shortcomings: (1) suffering from obtaining facial embeddings that are well-aligned with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Yan Rong , Li Liu

The goal of voice conversion (VC) is to convert input voice to match the target speaker's voice while keeping text and prosody intact. VC is usually used in entertainment and speaking-aid systems, as well as applied for speech data…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 A. Kashkin , I. Karpukhin , S. Shishkin

Voice Conversion(VC) refers to changing the timbre of a speech while retaining the discourse content. Recently, many works have focused on disentangle-based learning techniques to separate the timbre and the linguistic content information…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Non-parallel multi-domain voice conversion (VC) is a technique for learning mappings among multiple domains without relying on parallel data. This is important but challenging owing to the requirement of learning multiple mappings and the…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Nobukatsu Hojo

Text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) are two different tasks both aiming at generating high quality speaking voice according to different input modality. Due to their similarity, this paper proposes UnifySpeech, which brings TTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Haogeng Liu , Tao Wang , Ruibo Fu , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao

This paper presents FastSVC, a light-weight cross-domain singing voice conversion (SVC) system, which can achieve high conversion performance, with inference speed 4x faster than real-time on CPUs. FastSVC uses Conformer-based phoneme…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Na Hu , Dan Su , Helen Meng

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