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The presence of multiple talkers in the surrounding environment poses a difficult challenge for real-time speech communication systems considering the constraints on network size and complexity. In this paper, we present Personalized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ritwik Giri , Shrikant Venkataramani , Jean-Marc Valin , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

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

Despite the significant advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, their full utilization in automatic dubbing remains limited. This task necessitates the extraction of voice identity and emotional style from a reference speech in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Ashishkumar Gudmalwar , Nirmesh Shah , Sai Akarsh , Pankaj Wasnik , Rajiv Ratn Shah

We present SVCnet, a system for modelling speaker variability. Encoder Neural Networks specialized for each speech sound produce low dimensionality models of acoustical variation, and these models are further combined into an overall model…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Michael Witbrock , Patrick Haffner

Voice conversion (VC) consists of digitally altering the voice of an individual to manipulate part of its content, primarily its identity, while maintaining the rest unchanged. Research in neural VC has accomplished considerable…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Laurent Benaroya , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

Style voice conversion aims to transform the style of source speech to a desired style according to real-world application demands. However, the current style voice conversion approach relies on pre-defined labels or reference speech to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Jixun Yao , Yuguang Yang , Yi Lei , Ziqian Ning , Yanni Hu , Yu Pan , Jingjing Yin , Hongbin Zhou , Heng Lu , Lei Xie

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

Voice conversion is a task to convert a non-linguistic feature of a given utterance. Since naturalness of speech strongly depends on its pitch pattern, in some applications, it would be desirable to keep the original rise/fall pitch pattern…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 Chihiro Watanabe , Hirokazu Kameoka

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

Recently, voice conversion (VC) has been widely studied. Many VC systems use disentangle-based learning techniques to separate the speaker and the linguistic content information from a speech signal. Subsequently, they convert the voice by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Yen-Hao Chen , Da-Yi Wu , Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-yi Lee

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

Inspired by recent work on neural network image generation which rely on backpropagation towards the network inputs, we present a proof-of-concept system for speech texture synthesis and voice conversion based on two mechanisms: approximate…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Jan Chorowski , Ron J. Weiss , Rif A. Saurous , Samy Bengio

This paper proposes a voice conversion (VC) method using sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq or S2S) learning, which flexibly converts not only the voice characteristics but also the pitch contour and duration of input speech. The proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Damian Kwasny , Takuhiro Kaneko , Nobukatsu Hojo

Text mismatch between pre-collected data, either training data or enrollment data, and the actual test data can significantly hurt text-dependent speaker verification (SV) system performance. Although this problem can be solved by carefully…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Yexin Yang , Shuai Wang , Xun Gong , Yanmin Qian , Kai Yu

This paper proposes an Incremental Disentanglement-based Environment-Aware zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) method, dubbed IDEA-TTS, that can synthesize speech for unseen speakers while preserving the acoustic characteristics of a given…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Ye-Xin Lu , Hui-Peng Du , Zheng-Yan Sheng , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems are being built using end-to-end deep learning approaches. However, these systems require huge amounts of training data. We present our approach to built production quality TTS and perform speaker adaptation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Raviraj Joshi , Nikesh Garera

Controllable TTS models with natural language prompts often lack the ability for fine-grained control and face a scarcity of high-quality data. We propose a two-stage style-controllable TTS system with language models, utilizing a quantized…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yongqi Wang , Chunlei Zhang , Hangting Chen , Zhou Zhao , Dong Yu

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate individual speaker voices from complex speech environments. The effectiveness of TSE systems is often compromised when the speaker characteristics are similar to each other. Recent research…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yun Liu , Xuechen Liu , Junichi Yamagishi

We present a new neural text to speech (TTS) method that is able to transform text to speech in voices that are sampled in the wild. Unlike other systems, our solution is able to deal with unconstrained voice samples and without requiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Yaniv Taigman , Lior Wolf , Adam Polyak , Eliya Nachmani

Voice conversion is a task of synthesizing an utterance with target speaker's voice while maintaining linguistic information of the source utterance. While a speaker can produce varying utterances from a single script with different…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Soobin Suh , Dabi Ahn , Heewoong Park , Jonghun Park