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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

As a combination of visual and audio signals, video is inherently multi-modal. However, existing video generation methods are primarily intended for the synthesis of visual frames, whereas audio signals in realistic videos are disregarded.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jiawei Liu , Weining Wang , Sihan Chen , Xinxin Zhu , Jing Liu

Voice conversion (VC) using deep learning technologies can now generate high quality one-to-many voices and thus has been used in some practical application fields, such as entertainment and healthcare. However, voice conversion can pose…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Qiang Huang

Zero-shot voice conversion is becoming an increasingly popular research topic, as it promises the ability to transform speech to sound like any speaker. However, relatively little work has been done on end-to-end methods for this task,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-04 Wonjune Kang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Deb Roy

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

One-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert speech from any source speaker to an arbitrary target speaker with only a few seconds of reference speech from the target speaker. This relies heavily on disentangling the speaker's identity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

We propose an efficient framework, called Simple Swap (SimSwap), aiming for generalized and high fidelity face swapping. In contrast to previous approaches that either lack the ability to generalize to arbitrary identity or fail to preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Renwang Chen , Xuanhong Chen , Bingbing Ni , Yanhao Ge

In real-world singing voice conversion (SVC) applications, environmental noise and the demand for expressive output pose significant challenges. Conventional methods, however, are typically designed without accounting for real deployment…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Junjie Zheng , Gongyu Chen , Chaofan Ding , Zihao Chen

Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion remains an interesting but challenging speech processing task. Many style-transfer-inspired methods such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational autoencoders (VAEs) have been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Kaizhi Qian , Zeyu Jin , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Gautham J. Mysore

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert a source utterance into the voice of an unseen target speaker while preserving its linguistic content. Although recent systems have improved conversion quality, building zero-shot VC systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Qixi Zheng , Yuxiang Zhao , Tianrui Wang , Wenxi Chen , Kele Xu , Yikang Li , Qinyuan Chen , Xipeng Qiu , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Dynamically synthesizing talking speech that actively responds to a listening head is critical during the face-to-face interaction. For example, the speaker could take advantage of the listener's facial expression to adjust the tones,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Mohan Zhou , Yalong Bai , Wei Zhang , Ting Yao , Tiejun Zhao , Tao Mei

Currently, zero-shot voice conversion systems are capable of synthesizing the voice of unseen speakers. However, most existing approaches struggle to accurately replicate the speaking style of the source speaker or mimic the distinctive…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Kaidi Wang , Wenhao Guan , Ziyue Jiang , Hukai Huang , Peijie Chen , Weijie Wu , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

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

Video dubbing aims to generate high-fidelity speech that is precisely temporally aligned with the visual content. Existing methods still suffer from limitations in speech naturalness and audio-visual synchronization, and are limited to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Kaidi Wang , Yi He , Wenhao Guan , Weijie Wu , Hongwu Ding , Xiong Zhang , Di Wu , Meng Meng , Jian Luan , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

The objective of this study is to generate high-quality speech from silent talking face videos, a task also known as video-to-speech synthesis. A significant challenge in video-to-speech synthesis lies in the substantial modality gap…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Ji-Hoon Kim , Jeongsoo Choi , Jaehun Kim , Chaeyoung Jung , Joon Son Chung

Zero-shot voice conversion aims to transform a source speech utterance to match the timbre of a reference speech from an unseen speaker. Traditional approaches struggle with timbre leakage, insufficient timbre representation, and mismatches…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Songting Liu

Self-supervised audio-visual source localization aims to locate sound-source objects in video frames without extra annotations. Recent methods often approach this goal with the help of contrastive learning, which assumes only the audio and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Weixuan Sun , Jiayi Zhang , Jianyuan Wang , Zheyuan Liu , Yiran Zhong , Tianpeng Feng , Yandong Guo , Yanhao Zhang , Nick Barnes

We introduce SeeingSounds, a lightweight and modular framework for audio-to-image generation that leverages the interplay between audio, language, and vision-without requiring any paired audio-visual data or training on visual generative…

The goal of cross-speaker style transfer in TTS is to transfer a speech style from a source speaker with expressive data to a target speaker with only neutral data. In this context, we propose using a pre-trained singing voice conversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Leonardo B. de M. M. Marques , Lucas H. Ueda , Mário U. Neto , Flávio O. Simões , Fernando Runstein , Bianca Dal Bó , Paula D. P. Costa

In this paper, we propose an invertible deep learning framework called INVVC for voice conversion. It is designed against the possible threats that inherently come along with voice conversion systems. Specifically, we develop an invertible…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Zexin Cai , Ming Li