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Generative models have gained more and more attention in recent years for their remarkable success in tasks that required estimating and sampling data distribution to generate high-fidelity synthetic data. In speech, text-to-speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Alexander H. Liu , Matt Le , Apoorv Vyas , Bowen Shi , Andros Tjandra , Wei-Ning Hsu

Generative AI has demonstrated impressive performance in various fields, among which speech synthesis is an interesting direction. With the diffusion model as the most popular generative model, numerous works have attempted two active…

Here we present a novel approach to conditioning the SampleRNN generative model for voice conversion (VC). Conventional methods for VC modify the perceived speaker identity by converting between source and target acoustic features. Our…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Cong Zhou , Michael Horgan , Vivek Kumar , Cristina Vasco , Dan Darcy

Voice conversion is a method that allows for the transformation of speaking style while maintaining the integrity of linguistic information. There are many researchers using deep generative models for voice conversion tasks. Generative…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Voice Conversion (VC) emerged as a significant domain of research in the field of speech synthesis in recent years due to its emerging application in voice-assisting technology, automated movie dubbing, and speech-to-singing conversion to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Sandipan Dhar , Nanda Dulal Jana , Swagatam Das

In recent years, with the realistic generation results and a wide range of personalized applications, diffusion-based generative models gain huge attention in both visual and audio generation areas. Compared to the considerable advancements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Shiqi Yang , Zhi Zhong , Mengjie Zhao , Shusuke Takahashi , Masato Ishii , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

We present a wav-to-wav generative model for the task of singing voice conversion from any identity. Our method utilizes both an acoustic model, trained for the task of automatic speech recognition, together with melody extracted features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Adam Polyak , Lior Wolf , Yossi Adi , Yaniv Taigman

We propose a speech enhancement system that combines speaker-agnostic speech restoration with voice conversion (VC) to obtain a studio-level quality speech signal. While voice conversion models are typically used to change speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

Diffusion-based generative models have exhibited powerful generative performance in recent years. However, as many attributes exist in the data distribution and owing to several limitations of sharing the model parameters across all levels…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Ha-Yeong Choi , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Voice conversion (VC) stands as a crucial research area in speech synthesis, enabling the transformation of a speaker's vocal characteristics to resemble another while preserving the linguistic content. This technology has broad…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sandipan Dhar , Nanda Dulal Jana , Swagatam Das

State-of-the-art ASRs show suboptimal performance for child speech. The scarcity of child speech limits the development of child speech recognition (CSR). Therefore, we studied child-to-child voice conversion (VC) from existing child…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yuanyuan Zhang , Zhengjun Yue , Tanvina Patel , Odette Scharenborg

Spontaneous conversations in real-world settings such as those found in child-centered recordings have been shown to be amongst the most challenging audio files to process. Nevertheless, building speech processing models handling such a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Marvin Lavechin , Ruben Bousbib , Hervé Bredin , Emmanuel Dupoux , Alejandrina Cristia

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

Cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks have been widely used in non-parallel voice conversion (VC). Their ability to learn mappings between source and target features without relying on parallel training data eliminates the need…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dominik Wagner , Ilja Baumann , Tobias Bocklet

Speech foundation models have shown strong transferability across a wide range of speech applications. However, their robustness to age-related domain shift in speaker diarization remains underexplored. In this work, we present a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Anfeng Xu , Tiantian Feng , Shrikanth Narayanan

Generative voice technologies are rapidly evolving, offering opportunities for more personalized and inclusive experiences. Traditional one-shot voice conversion (VC) requires a target recording during inference, limiting ease of usage in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Jiarui Hai , Karan Thakkar , Helin Wang , Zengyi Qin , Mounya Elhilali

Expressive voice conversion (VC) conducts speaker identity conversion for emotional speakers by jointly converting speaker identity and emotional style. Emotional style modeling for arbitrary speakers in expressive VC has not been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Zongyang Du , Junchen Lu , Kun Zhou , Lakshmish Kaushik , Berrak Sisman

Building a voice conversion (VC) system from non-parallel speech corpora is challenging but highly valuable in real application scenarios. In most situations, the source and the target speakers do not repeat the same texts or they may even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Chin-Cheng Hsu , Hsin-Te Hwang , Yi-Chiao Wu , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

Generative spoken language models pretrained on large-scale raw audio can continue a speech prompt with appropriate content while preserving attributes like speaker and emotion, serving as foundation models for spoken dialogue. In prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chan-Jan Hsu , Liang-Hsuan Tseng , Yi-Cheng Lin , Yen-Chun Kuo , Ju-Chieh Chou , Kai-Wei Chang , Hung-yi Lee , Carlos Busso

Previously, we introduced VoiceGrad, a nonparallel voice conversion (VC) technique enabling mel-spectrogram conversion from source to target speakers using a score-based diffusion model. The concept involves training a score network to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Hirokazu Kameoka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo
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