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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

Text-to-speech(TTS) has undergone remarkable improvements in performance, particularly with the advent of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs). However, the perceived quality of audio depends not solely on its content, pitch,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Huadai Liu , Rongjie Huang , Xuan Lin , Wenqiang Xu , Maozong Zheng , Hong Chen , Jinzheng He , Zhou Zhao

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

We present VoXtream, a fully autoregressive, zero-shot streaming text-to-speech (TTS) system for real-time use that begins speaking from the first word. VoXtream directly maps incoming phonemes to audio tokens using a monotonic alignment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Nikita Torgashov , Gustav Eje Henter , Gabriel Skantze

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

Any-to-any voice conversion problem aims to convert voices for source and target speakers, which are out of the training data. Previous works wildly utilize the disentangle-based models. The disentangle-based model assumes the speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Qiqi Wang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Multi-channel inputs offer several advantages over single-channel, to improve the robustness of on-device speech recognition systems. Recent work on multi-channel transformer, has proposed a way to incorporate such inputs into end-to-end…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Feng-Ju Chang , Martin Radfar , Athanasios Mouchtaris , Maurizio Omologo

The zero-shot scenario for speech generation aims at synthesizing a novel unseen voice with only one utterance of the target speaker. Although the challenges of adapting new voices in zero-shot scenario exist in both stages -- acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yi Lei , Shan Yang , Jian Cong , Lei Xie , Dan Su

Preserving the linguistic content of input speech is essential during voice conversion (VC). The star generative adversarial network-based VC method (StarGAN-VC) is a recently developed method that allows non-parallel many-to-many VC.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Shoki Sakamoto , Akira Taniguchi , Tadahiro Taniguchi , Hirokazu Kameoka

A diffusion-based voice conversion (VC) model (e.g., VoiceGrad) can achieve high speech quality and speaker similarity; however, its conversion process is slow owing to iterative sampling. FastVoiceGrad overcomes this limitation by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) has emerged as a significant subfield of Voice Conversion (VC), enabling the transformation of one singer's voice into another while preserving musical elements such as melody, rhythm, and timbre. Traditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yubo Huang , Xin Lai , Muyang Ye , Anran Zhu , Zixi Wang , Jingzehua Xu , Shuai Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhou , Weijie Niu

Recent progress of voice conversion~(VC) has achieved a new milestone in speaker cloning and linguistic preservation. But the field remains fragmented, relying on specialized models for linguistic-preserving, expressive, and singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Zhichao Wang , Tao Li , Wenshuo Ge , Zihao Cui , Shilei Zhang , Junlan Feng

Any-to-any voice conversion aims to transform source speech into a target voice with just a few examples of the target speaker as a reference. Recent methods produce convincing conversions, but at the cost of increased complexity -- making…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Matthew Baas , Benjamin van Niekerk , Herman Kamper

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

We introduce a practical real-time neural video codec (NVC) designed to deliver high compression ratio, low latency and broad versatility. In practice, the coding speed of NVCs depends on 1) computational costs, and 2) non-computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Zhaoyang Jia , Bin Li , Jiahao Li , Wenxuan Xie , Linfeng Qi , Houqiang Li , Yan Lu

Data augmentation via voice conversion (VC) has been successfully applied to low-resource expressive text-to-speech (TTS) when only neutral data for the target speaker are available. Although the quality of VC is crucial for this approach,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Ryo Terashima , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Eunwoo Song , Yuma Shirahata , Hyun-Wook Yoon , Jae-Min Kim , Kentaro Tachibana

Voice conversion for highly expressive speech is challenging. Current approaches struggle with the balancing between speaker similarity, intelligibility and expressiveness. To address this problem, we propose Expressive-VC, a novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-10 Ziqian Ning , Qicong Xie , Pengcheng Zhu , Zhichao Wang , Liumeng Xue , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie , Mengxiao Bi

We introduce LinearVC, a simple voice conversion method that sheds light on the structure of self-supervised representations. First, we show that simple linear transformations of self-supervised features effectively convert voices. Next, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Herman Kamper , Benjamin van Niekerk , Julian Zaïdi , Marc-André Carbonneau

Voice conversion (VC) is a task to transform a person's voice to different style while conserving linguistic contents. Previous state-of-the-art on VC is based on sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model, which could mislead linguistic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Tae-Ho Kim , Sungjae Cho , Shinkook Choi , Sejik Park , Soo-Young Lee

Modern voice cloning, also known as zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), can synthesize speech that closely matches a target speaker from only seconds of reference audio, enabling applications such as personalized speech interfaces and dubbing.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruinan Jin , Xinting Liao , Hanlin Yu , Deval Pandya , Xiaoxiao Li