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We present StreamVC, a streaming voice conversion solution that preserves the content and prosody of any source speech while matching the voice timbre from any target speech. Unlike previous approaches, StreamVC produces the resulting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yang Yang , Yury Kartynnik , Yunpeng Li , Jiuqiang Tang , Xing Li , George Sung , Matthias Grundmann

Voice conversion has gained increasing popularity in many applications of speech synthesis. The idea is to change the voice identity from one speaker into another while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Many voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Bac Nguyen , Fabien Cardinaux

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

With the development of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) technique, it's intuitive to construct a voice conversion system by cascading an ASR and TTS system. In this paper, we present a ASR-TTS method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Li-Juan Liu , Yan-Nian Chen , Ya-Jun Hu , Yuan Jiang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has gained remarkable successes thanks to recent advances of deep learning, but it usually degrades significantly under real-world noisy conditions. Recent works introduce speech enhancement (SE) as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Qiushi Zhu , Eng Siong Chng

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

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) aims to transform a source singing voice into a target singer while preserving lyrics and melody. Most existing SVC methods depend on F0 extractors to capture the lead melody from clean vocals. However, no…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chen Geng , Meng Chen , Ruohua Zhou , Ruolan Liu , Weifeng Zhao

This paper describes a method based on a sequence-to-sequence learning (Seq2Seq) with attention and context preservation mechanism for voice conversion (VC) tasks. Seq2Seq has been outstanding at numerous tasks involving sequence modeling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-13 Kou Tanaka , Hirokazu Kameoka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Nobukatsu Hojo

In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Voice conversion technologies have been greatly improved in recent years with the help of deep learning, but their capabilities of producing natural sounding utterances in different conditions remain unclear. In this paper, we gave a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Tzu-hsien Huang , Jheng-hao Lin , Chien-yu Huang , Hung-yi Lee

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are known to exhibit difficulties when transcribing children's speech. This can mainly be attributed to the absence of large children's speech corpora to train robust ASR models and the resulting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Jenthe Thienpondt , Kris Demuynck

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

A singing voice conversion model converts a song in the voice of an arbitrary source singer to the voice of a target singer. Recently, methods that leverage self-supervised audio representations such as HuBERT and Wav2Vec 2.0 have helped…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Tejas Jayashankar , Jilong Wu , Leda Sari , David Kant , Vimal Manohar , Qing He

Diffusion-based voice conversion (VC) techniques such as VoiceGrad have attracted interest because of their high VC performance in terms of speech quality and speaker similarity. However, a notable limitation is the slow inference caused by…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

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

Any-to-any singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to transfer a target singer's timbre to other songs using a short voice sample. However many diffusion model based any-to-any SVC methods, which have achieved impressive results, usually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Shihao Chen , Yu Gu , Jianwei Cui , Jie Zhang , Rilin Chen , Lirong Dai

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

Though significant progress has been made for the voice conversion (VC) of typical speech, VC for atypical speech, e.g., dysarthric and second-language (L2) speech, remains a challenge, since it involves correcting for atypical prosody…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Disong Wang , Songxiang Liu , Lifa Sun , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Virtual sensing (VS) technology enables active noise control (ANC) systems to attenuate noise at virtual locations distant from the physical error microphones. Appropriate auxiliary filters (AF) can significantly enhance the effectiveness…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Boxiang Wang , Dongyuan Shi , Zhengding Luo , Xiaoyi Shen , Junwei Ji , Woon-Seng Gan

One-shot voice conversion(VC) aims to change the timbre of any source speech to match that of the target speaker with only one speech sample. Existing style transfer-based VC methods relied on speech representation disentanglement and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Wenhan Yao , Zedong Xing , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , Yongqiang He , Weiping Wen
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