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Diffusion models have achieved great success in modeling continuous data modalities such as images, audio, and video, but have seen limited use in discrete domains such as language. Recent attempts to adapt diffusion to language have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Justin Lovelace , Varsha Kishore , Chao Wan , Eliot Shekhtman , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Factorizing speech as disentangled speech representations is vital to achieve highly controllable style transfer in voice conversion (VC). Conventional speech representation learning methods in VC only factorize speech as speaker and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Jie Wang , Jingbei Li , Xintao Zhao , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Helen Meng

In this paper, we present a novel diffusion model-based monaural speech enhancement method. Our approach incorporates the separate estimation of speech spectra's magnitude and phase in two diffusion networks. Throughout the diffusion…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yi Li , Yang Sun , Plamen Angelov

With the development of deep learning, speech enhancement has been greatly optimized in terms of speech quality. Previous methods typically focus on the discriminative supervised learning or generative modeling, which tends to introduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Nan Xu , Zhaolong Huang , Xiaonan Zhi

We propose SelfVC, a training strategy to iteratively improve a voice conversion model with self-synthesized examples. Previous efforts on voice conversion focus on factorizing speech into explicitly disentangled representations that…

Previous works (Donahue et al., 2018a; Engel et al., 2019a) have found that generating coherent raw audio waveforms with GANs is challenging. In this paper, we show that it is possible to train GANs reliably to generate high quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Kundan Kumar , Rithesh Kumar , Thibault de Boissiere , Lucas Gestin , Wei Zhen Teoh , Jose Sotelo , Alexandre de Brebisson , Yoshua Bengio , Aaron Courville

Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (VC) aims to transform the source speaker's timbre into an arbitrary unseen one while retaining speech content. Most prior work focuses on preserving the source's prosody, while fine-grained timbre information may…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Jialong Zuo , Shengpeng Ji , Minghui Fang , Mingze Li , Ziyue Jiang , Xize Cheng , Xiaoda Yang , Chen Feiyang , Xinyu Duan , Zhou Zhao

We previously proposed a method that allows for nonparallel voice conversion (VC) by using a variant of generative adversarial networks (GANs) called StarGAN. The main features of our method, called StarGAN-VC, are as follows: First, it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Hirokazu Kameoka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Kou Tanaka , Nobukatsu Hojo

The introduction of audio latent diffusion models possessing the ability to generate realistic sound clips on demand from a text description has the potential to revolutionize how we work with audio. In this work, we make an initial attempt…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Dimitrios Bralios , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Zexu Pan , Sameer Khurana , Chiori Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

This paper focuses on using voice conversion (VC) to improve the speech intelligibility of surgical patients who have had parts of their articulators removed. Due to the difficulty of data collection, VC without parallel data is highly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-26 Li-Wei Chen , Hung-Yi Lee , Yu Tsao

Currently, the development of Foreign Accent Conversion (FAC) models utilizes deep neural network architectures, as well as ensembles of neural networks for speech recognition and speech generation. The use of these models is limited by…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Vladimir Nechaev , Sergey Kosyakov

In this paper, we propose GlowVC: a multilingual multi-speaker flow-based model for language-independent text-free voice conversion. We build on Glow-TTS, which provides an architecture that enables use of linguistic features during…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Magdalena Proszewska , Grzegorz Beringer , Daniel Sáez-Trigueros , Thomas Merritt , Abdelhamid Ezzerg , Roberto Barra-Chicote

We present VoiceDiT, a multi-modal generative model for producing environment-aware speech and audio from text and visual prompts. While aligning speech with text is crucial for intelligible speech, achieving this alignment in noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Jaemin Jung , Junseok Ahn , Chaeyoung Jung , Tan Dat Nguyen , Youngjoon Jang , Joon Son Chung

Recently, cycle-consistent adversarial network (Cycle-GAN) has been successfully applied to voice conversion to a different speaker without parallel data, although in those approaches an individual model is needed for each target speaker.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Ju-chieh Chou , Cheng-chieh Yeh , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

Text-to-image generation has witnessed significant advancements with the integration of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), yet challenges remain in aligning complex textual descriptions with high-quality, visually coherent images. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Emily Johnson , Noah Wilson

In this work, we propose ParaNet, a non-autoregressive seq2seq model that converts text to spectrogram. It is fully convolutional and brings 46.7 times speed-up over the lightweight Deep Voice 3 at synthesis, while obtaining reasonably good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kainan Peng , Wei Ping , Zhao Song , Kexin Zhao

This work adapts two recent architectures of generative models and evaluates their effectiveness for the conversion of whispered speech to normal speech. We incorporate the normal target speech into the training criterion of…

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer the timbre from the source speaker to an arbitrary unseen speaker while preserving the original linguistic content. Despite recent advancements in zero-shot VC using language model-based or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Jixun Yao , Yuguang Yang , Yu Pan , Ziqian Ning , Jiaohao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Xie

Latent diffusion models offer an attractive alternative to discrete diffusion for non-autoregressive text generation by operating on continuous text representations and denoising entire sequences in parallel. The major challenge in latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Viacheslav Meshchaninov , Alexander Shabalin , Egor Chimbulatov , Nikita Gushchin , Ilya Koziev , Alexander Korotin , Dmitry Vetrov

Voice conversion (VC) is a task that transforms voice from target audio to source without losing linguistic contents, it is challenging especially when source and target speakers are unseen during training (zero-shot VC). Previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shijun Wang , Damian Borth