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We present a fully on-device streaming Speech2Speech conversion model that normalizes a given input speech directly to synthesized output speech. Deploying such a model on mobile devices pose significant challenges in terms of memory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Oleg Rybakov , Fadi Biadsy , Xia Zhang , Liyang Jiang , Phoenix Meadowlark , Shivani Agrawal

Singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to convert a singer's voice to another singer's from a reference audio while keeping the original semantics. However, existing SVC methods can hardly perform zero-shot due to incomplete feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zihao Wang , Le Ma , Yongsheng Feng , Xin Pan , Yuhang Jin , Kejun Zhang

The zero-shot scenario for speech generation aims at synthesizing a novel unseen voice with only one utterance of the target speaker. Although the challenges of adapting new voices in zero-shot scenario exist in both stages -- acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yi Lei , Shan Yang , Jian Cong , Lei Xie , Dan Su

This paper presents a novel task, zero-shot voice conversion based on face images (zero-shot FaceVC), which aims at converting the voice characteristics of an utterance from any source speaker to a newly coming target speaker, solely…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zheng-Yan Sheng , Yang Ai , Yan-Nian Chen , Zhen-Hua Ling

Most people who have tried to learn a foreign language would have experienced difficulties understanding or speaking with a native speaker's accent. For native speakers, understanding or speaking a new accent is likewise a difficult task.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Mumin Jin , Prashant Serai , Jilong Wu , Andros Tjandra , Vimal Manohar , Qing He

Audio source separation is fundamental for machines to understand complex acoustic environments and underpins numerous audio applications. Current supervised deep learning approaches, while powerful, are limited by the need for extensive,…

Stylized text-to-image generation focuses on creating images from textual descriptions while adhering to a style specified by a few reference images. However, subtle style variations within different reference images can hinder the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xing Cui , Zekun Li , Pei Pei Li , Huaibo Huang , Xuannan Liu , Zhaofeng He

Diffusion-based text-to-image generation models have significantly advanced the field of art content synthesis. However, current portrait stylization methods generally require either model fine-tuning based on examples or the employment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jin Liu , Huaibo Huang , Jie Cao , Ran He

Despite the impressive results of arbitrary image-guided style transfer methods, text-driven image stylization has recently been proposed for transferring a natural image into a stylized one according to textual descriptions of the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Nisha Huang , Yuxin Zhang , Fan Tang , Chongyang Ma , Haibin Huang , Yong Zhang , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

Style transfer aims to fuse the artistic representation of a style image with the structural information of a content image. Existing methods train specific networks or utilize pre-trained models to learn content and style features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ying Hu , Chenyi Zhuang , Pan Gao

Voice conversion (VC) is a task that transforms the source speaker's timbre, accent, and tones in audio into another one's while preserving the linguistic content. It is still a challenging work, especially in a one-shot setting.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Da-Yi Wu , Yen-Hao Chen , Hung-Yi Lee

In this paper, we present StyleTTS 2, a text-to-speech (TTS) model that leverages style diffusion and adversarial training with large speech language models (SLMs) to achieve human-level TTS synthesis. StyleTTS 2 differs from its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Vinay S. Raghavan , Gavin Mischler , Nima Mesgarani

Text-driven diffusion-based video editing presents a unique challenge not encountered in image editing literature: establishing real-world motion. Unlike existing video editing approaches, here we focus on score distillation sampling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Hyeonho Jeong , Jinho Chang , Geon Yeong Park , Jong Chul Ye

The goal of this work is zero-shot text-to-speech synthesis, with speaking styles and voices learnt from facial characteristics. Inspired by the natural fact that people can imagine the voice of someone when they look at his or her face, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jiyoung Lee , Joon Son Chung , Soo-Whan Chung

Text style transfer is the task that generates a sentence by preserving the content of the input sentence and transferring the style. Most existing studies are progressing on non-parallel datasets because parallel datasets are limited and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Joosung Lee

Zero-shot voice conversion is becoming an increasingly popular research topic, as it promises the ability to transform speech to sound like any speaker. However, relatively little work has been done on end-to-end methods for this task,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-04 Wonjune Kang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Deb Roy

Whisper is one of the recent state-of-the-art multilingual speech recognition and translation models, however, it is not designed for real time transcription. In this paper, we build on top of Whisper and create Whisper-Streaming, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Dominik Macháček , Raj Dabre , Ondřej Bojar

The rapid development of generative diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of style transfer. However, most current style transfer methods based on diffusion models typically involve a slow iterative optimization process,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Feihong He , Gang Li , Fuhui Sun , Mengyuan Zhang , Lingyu Si , Xiaoyan Wang , Li Shen

In this paper, we propose a novel voice conversion strategy to resolve the mismatch between the training and conversion scenarios when parallel speech corpus is unavailable for training. Based on auto-encoder and disentanglement frameworks,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Yoohwan Kwon , Soo-Whan Chung , Hee-Soo Heo , Hong-Goo Kang

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