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Recent speech language models rely on encoders that are optimized separately from autoregressive models. Since these encoders are unaware of the downstream objectives, the extracted representations may not be optimal for downstream tasks.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Sung-Lin Yeh , Wei Zhou , Gil Keren , Duc Le , Zhong Meng , Hao Tang , Jay Mahadeokar , Ozlem Kalinli , Alexandre Mourachko

We present VoiceRestore, a novel approach to restoring the quality of speech recordings using flow-matching Transformers trained in a self-supervised manner on synthetic data. Our method tackles a wide range of degradations frequently found…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Stanislav Kirdey

Recent advances in neural network -based text-to-speech have reached human level naturalness in synthetic speech. The present sequence-to-sequence models can directly map text to mel-spectrogram acoustic features, which are convenient for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Lauri Juvela , Bajibabu Bollepalli , Junichi Yamagishi , Paavo Alku

This paper proposes a novel voice conversion (VC) method based on non-autoregressive sequence-to-sequence (NAR-S2S) models. Inspired by the great success of NAR-S2S models such as FastSpeech in text-to-speech (TTS), we extend the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Tomoki Hayashi , Wen-Chin Huang , Kazuhiro Kobayashi , Tomoki Toda

Singing voice conversion is to convert the source singing voice into the target singing voice except for the content. Currently, flow-based models can complete the task of voice conversion, but they struggle to effectively extract latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Hui Li , Hongyu Wang , Zhijin Chen , Bohan Sun , Bo Li

In this work, we introduce a framework for cross-lingual speech synthesis, which involves an upstream Voice Conversion (VC) model and a downstream Text-To-Speech (TTS) model. The proposed framework consists of 4 stages. In the first two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Dariusz Piotrowski , Renard Korzeniowski , Alessio Falai , Sebastian Cygert , Kamil Pokora , Georgi Tinchev , Ziyao Zhang , Kayoko Yanagisawa

Generative models are a popular choice for adult-to-adult voice conversion (VC) because of their efficient way of modelling unlabelled data. To this point their usefulness in producing children speech and in particular adult to child VC has…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Protima Nomo Sudro , Anton Ragni , Thomas Hain

Streaming voice conversion (VC) is the task of converting the voice of one person to another in real-time. Previous streaming VC methods use phonetic posteriorgrams (PPGs) extracted from automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Yuanzhe Chen , Ming Tu , Tang Li , Xin Li , Qiuqiang Kong , Jiaxin Li , Zhichao Wang , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang

The goal of this paper is to generate realistic audio with a lightweight and fast diffusion-based vocoder, named FreGrad. Our framework consists of the following three key components: (1) We employ discrete wavelet transform that decomposes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Tan Dat Nguyen , Ji-Hoon Kim , Youngjoon Jang , Jaehun Kim , Joon Son Chung

Neural network based end-to-end text to speech (TTS) has significantly improved the quality of synthesized speech. Prominent methods (e.g., Tacotron 2) usually first generate mel-spectrogram from text, and then synthesize speech from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Yi Ren , Yangjun Ruan , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Zhou Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Unsupervised Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (VC) aims to modify the speaker characteristic of an utterance to match an unseen target speaker without relying on parallel training data. Recently, self-supervised learning of speech representation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Trung Dang , Dung Tran , Peter Chin , Kazuhito Koishida

Neural vocoder using denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) has been improved by adaptation of the diffusion noise distribution to given acoustic features. In this study, we propose SpecGrad that adapts the diffusion noise so that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-08 Yuma Koizumi , Heiga Zen , Kohei Yatabe , Nanxin Chen , Michiel Bacchiani

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) trained with flow matching in a VAE latent space have unified visual generation across images and videos. A natural next step toward a single architecture for both generation (visual synthesis) and understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiaxiu Jiang , Jingjing Ren , Wenbo Li , Bo Wang , Haoze Sun , Yijun Yang , Jianhui Liu , Yanbing Zhang , Shenghe Zheng , Yuan Zhang , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Wangmeng Zuo

Building cross-lingual voice conversion (VC) systems for multiple speakers and multiple languages has been a challenging task for a long time. This paper describes a parallel non-autoregressive network to achieve bilingual and code-switched…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Yaogen Yang , Haozhe Zhang , Xiaoyi Qin , Shanshan Liang , Huahua Cui , Mingyang Xu , Ming Li

Voice conversion refers to transferring speaker identity with well-preserved content. Better disentanglement of speech representations leads to better voice conversion. Recent studies have found that phonetic information from input audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yimin Deng , Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Recently the state-of-the-art text-to-speech synthesis systems have shifted to a two-model approach: a sequence-to-sequence model to predict a representation of speech (typically mel-spectrograms), followed by a 'neural vocoder' model which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Jonas Rohnke , Tom Merritt , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba , Adam Gabrys , Vatsal Aggarwal , Alexis Moinet , Roberto Barra-Chicote

Recent advancement in Generative Adversarial Networks in speech synthesis domain[3],[2] have shown, that it's possible to train GANs [8] in a reliable manner for high quality coherent waveform generation from mel-spectograms. We propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Luka Chkhetiani , Levan Bejanidze

In this paper, we integrate a simple non-parallel voice conversion (VC) system with a WaveNet (WN) vocoder and a proposed collapsed speech suppression technique. The effectiveness of WN as a vocoder for generating high-fidelity speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Yi-Chiao Wu , Patrick Lumban Tobing , Kazuhiro Kobayashi , Tomoki Hayashi , Tomoki Toda

Speech-to-face generation is an intriguing area of research that focuses on generating realistic facial images based on a speaker's audio speech. However, state-of-the-art methods employing GAN-based architectures lack stability and cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Jinting Wang , Li Liu , Jun Wang , Hei Victor Cheng