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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

The advancement of diffusion-based text-to-music generation has opened new avenues for zero-shot music editing. However, existing methods fail to achieve stem-specific timbre transfer, which requires altering specific stems while strictly…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haowen Li , Tianxiang Li , Yi Yang , Boyu Cao , Qi Liu

Traditional voice conversion (VC) methods typically attempt to separate speaker identity and linguistic information into distinct representations, which are then combined to reconstruct the audio. However, effectively disentangling these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Huu Tuong Tu , Huan Vu , cuong tien nguyen , Dien Hy Ngo , Nguyen Thi Thu Trang

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

This paper proposes a zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) conditioned by a self-supervised speech-representation model acquired through self-supervised learning (SSL). Conventional methods with embedding vectors from x-vector or global style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kenichi Fujita , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroki Kanagawa , Takafumi Moriya , Yusuke Ijima

Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) have enabled accurate imitation of reference speech in terms of both speaking style and speaker timbre. However, achieving disentangled control over these aspects from separate references…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Yoonhyung Lee , Hyunsin Park , Jinhwan Park , Jinkyu Lee

The pre-trained vision-language model, exemplified by CLIP, advances zero-shot semantic segmentation by aligning visual features with class embeddings through a transformer decoder to generate semantic masks. Despite its effectiveness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zicheng Zhang , Tong Zhang , Yi Zhu , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaodan Liang , QiXiang Ye , Wei Ke

This work presents FreeSVC, a promising multilingual singing voice conversion approach that leverages an enhanced VITS model with Speaker-invariant Clustering (SPIN) for better content representation and the State-of-the-Art (SOTA) speaker…

Continuous autoregressive speech synthesis has recently emerged as a promising direction for zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS). However, existing methods still suffer from a fundamental mismatch between semantic-prosodic modeling and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Huimeng Wang , Hui Lu , Jiajun Deng , Haoning Xu , Youjun Chen , Xueyuan Chen , Zhaoqing Li , Shuhai Peng , Shiyin Kang , Xunying Liu

Voice conversion is the task of converting a spoken utterance from a source speaker so that it appears to be said by a different target speaker while retaining the linguistic content of the utterance. Recent advances have led to major…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Matthew Baas , Herman Kamper

Despite remarkable advancements in recent voice conversion (VC) systems, enhancing speaker similarity in zero-shot scenarios remains challenging. This challenge arises from the difficulty of generalizing and adapting speaker characteristics…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ha-Yeong Choi , Jaehan Park

Zero-shot speaker adaptation aims to clone an unseen speaker's voice without any adaptation time and parameters. Previous researches usually use a speaker encoder to extract a global fixed speaker embedding from reference speech, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yixuan Zhou , Changhe Song , Xiang Li , Luwen Zhang , Zhiyong Wu , Yanyao Bian , Dan Su , Helen Meng

Expressive voice conversion aims to transfer both speaker identity and expressive attributes from a target speech to a given source speech. In this work, we improve over a self-supervised, non-autoregressive framework with a conditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Seymanur Akti , Tuan Nam Nguyen , Alexander Waibel

We propose a neural network for zero-shot voice conversion (VC) without any parallel or transcribed data. Our approach uses pre-trained models for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker embedding, obtained from a speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yurii Rebryk , Stanislav Beliaev

Nowadays, it is common to release audio content to the public. However, with the rise of voice cloning technology, attackers have the potential to easily impersonate a specific person by utilizing his publicly released audio without any…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Chang Liu , Jie Zhang , Tianwei Zhang , Xi Yang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Voice Conversion (VC) converts the voice of a source speech to that of a target while maintaining the source's content. Speech can be mainly decomposed into four components: content, timbre, rhythm and pitch. Unfortunately, most related…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Zhonghua Liu , Shijun Wang , Ning Chen

We introduce MiniMax-Speech, an autoregressive Transformer-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) model that generates high-quality speech. A key innovation is our learnable speaker encoder, which extracts timbre features from a reference audio without…

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 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

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