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A key challenge in synthesizing audios from silent videos is the inherent trade-off between synthesis quality and inference efficiency in existing methods. For instance, flow matching based models rely on modeling instantaneous velocity,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xiaoran Yang , Jianxuan Yang , Xinyue Guo , Haoyu Wang , Ningning Pan , Gongping Huang

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in Text-to-Audio Generation (TTA), providing sound creators with powerful tools to transform inspirations into vivid audio. Yet despite these advances, current TTA systems often suffer from…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiquan Li , Junxi Liu , Yuzhe Liang , Zhikang Niu , Wenxi Chen , Xie Chen

Language model (LM) based audio generation frameworks, e.g., AudioLM, have recently achieved new state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot audio generation. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of LMs for zero-shot voice conversion. An…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Zhichao Wang , Yuanzhe Chen , Lei Xie , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) converts source speech into the voice of any desired speaker using only one utterance of the speaker without requiring additional model updates. Typical methods use a speaker representation from a pre-trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Zhichao Wang , Liumeng Xue , Qiuqiang Kong , Lei Xie , Yuanzhe Chen , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang

This paper introduces FastVC, an end-to-end model for fast Voice Conversion (VC). The proposed model can convert speech of arbitrary length from multiple source speakers to multiple target speakers. FastVC is based on a conditional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Oriol Barbany Mayor , Milos Cernak

We propose a unified framework for Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) and Conversion (SVC), addressing the limitations of existing approaches in cross-domain SVS/SVC, poor output musicality, and scarcity of singing data. Our framework enables…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Shuqi Dai , Yunyun Wang , Roger B. Dannenberg , Zeyu Jin

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

We present OmniVoice, a massively multilingual zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) model that scales to over 600 languages. At its core is a novel diffusion language model-style discrete non-autoregressive (NAR) architecture. Unlike conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Han Zhu , Lingxuan Ye , Wei Kang , Zengwei Yao , Liyong Guo , Fangjun Kuang , Zhifeng Han , Weiji Zhuang , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

Conveying the linguistic content and maintaining the source speech's speaking style, such as intonation and emotion, is essential in voice conversion (VC). However, in a low-resource situation, where only limited utterances from the target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Zhichao Wang , Xinsheng Wang , Lei Xie , Yuanzhe Chen , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang

Creating realistic and natural-sounding synthetic speech remains a big challenge for voice identities unseen during training. As there is growing interest in synthesizing voices of new speakers, here we investigate the ability of…

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

The goal of voice conversion (VC) is to convert input voice to match the target speaker's voice while keeping text and prosody intact. VC is usually used in entertainment and speaking-aid systems, as well as applied for speech data…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 A. Kashkin , I. Karpukhin , S. Shishkin

Speech enhancement (SE) recovers clean speech from noisy signals and is vital for applications such as telecommunications and automatic speech recognition (ASR). While generative approaches achieve strong perceptual quality, they often rely…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yike Zhu , Boyi Kang , Ziqian Wang , Xingchen Li , Zihan Zhang , Wenjie Li , Longshuai Xiao , Wei Xue , Lei Xie

Voice conversion is becoming increasingly popular, and a growing number of application scenarios require models with streaming inference capabilities. The recently proposed DualVC attempts to achieve this objective through streaming model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Ziqian Ning , Yuepeng Jiang , Pengcheng Zhu , Shuai Wang , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie , Mengxiao Bi

Voice conversion models have developed for decades, and current mainstream research focuses on non-streaming voice conversion. However, streaming voice conversion is more suitable for practical application scenarios than non-streaming voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ziyi Chen , Haoran Miao , Pengyuan Zhang

Non-parallel voice conversion (VC) is typically achieved using lossy representations of the source speech. However, ensuring only speaker identity information is dropped whilst all other information from the source speech is retained is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Thomas Merritt , Abdelhamid Ezzerg , Piotr Biliński , Magdalena Proszewska , Kamil Pokora , Roberto Barra-Chicote , Daniel Korzekwa

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

Video restoration aims to reconstruct high quality video sequences from low quality inputs, addressing tasks such as super resolution, denoising, and deblurring. Traditional regression based methods often produce unrealistic details and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Sicheng Gao , Nancy Mehta , Zongwei Wu , Radu Timofte

This paper presents a new voice conversion (VC) framework capable of dealing with both additive noise and reverberation, and its performance evaluation. There have been studied some VC researches focusing on real-world circumstances where…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yeonjong Choi , Chao Xie , Tomoki Toda

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