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Zero-shot voice conversion aims to transform a source speech utterance to match the timbre of a reference speech from an unseen speaker. Traditional approaches struggle with timbre leakage, insufficient timbre representation, and mismatches…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Songting Liu

Style voice conversion aims to transform the speaking style of source speech into a desired style while keeping the original speaker's identity. However, previous style voice conversion approaches primarily focus on well-defined domains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-09 Xinfa Zhu , Lei He , Yujia Xiao , Xi Wang , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao , Lei Xie

Nowadays, as more and more systems achieve good performance in traditional voice conversion (VC) tasks, people's attention gradually turns to VC tasks under extreme conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel method for zero-shot voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Haozhe Zhang , Zexin Cai , Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li

Voice Conversion (VC) aims to modify a speaker's timbre while preserving linguistic content. While recent VC models achieve strong performance, most struggle in real-time streaming scenarios due to high latency, dependence on ASR modules,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhao Guo , Ziqian Ning , Guobin Ma , Lei Xie

The goal of voice conversion is to transform the speech of a source speaker to sound like that of a reference speaker while preserving the original content. A key challenge is to extract disentangled linguistic content from the source and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jaehun Kim , Ji-Hoon Kim , Yeunju Choi , Tan Dat Nguyen , Seongkyu Mun , Joon Son Chung

Most current zero-shot voice conversion methods rely on externally supervised components, particularly speaker encoders, for training. To explore alternatives that eliminate this dependency, this paper introduces GenVC, a novel framework…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Zexin Cai , Henry Li Xinyuan , Ashi Garg , Leibny Paola García-Perera , Kevin Duh , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Matthew Wiesner , Nicholas Andrews

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

Despite remarkable advancements in recent voice conversion (VC) systems, enhancing speaker similarity in zero-shot scenarios remains challenging. This challenge arises from the difficulty of generalizing and adapting speaker characteristics…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ha-Yeong Choi , Jaehan Park

One-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert speech from any source speaker to an arbitrary target speaker with only a few seconds of reference speech from the target speaker. This relies heavily on disentangling the speaker's identity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

In this work, we propose a zero-shot voice conversion method using speech representations trained with self-supervised learning. First, we develop a multi-task model to decompose a speech utterance into features such as linguistic content,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Shehzeen Hussain , Paarth Neekhara , Jocelyn Huang , Jason Li , Boris Ginsburg

Expressive zero-shot voice conversion (VC) is a critical and challenging task that aims to transform the source timbre into an arbitrary unseen speaker while preserving the original content and expressive qualities. Despite recent progress…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yuguang Yang , Yu Pan , Jixun Yao , Xiang Zhang , Jianhao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Xie , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

We introduce MaskVCT, a zero-shot voice conversion (VC) model that offers multi-factor controllability through multiple classifier-free guidances (CFGs). While previous VC models rely on a fixed conditioning scheme, MaskVCT integrates…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Junhyeok Lee , Helin Wang , Yaohan Guan , Thomas Thebaud , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak

Recent developments in neural speech synthesis and vocoding have sparked a renewed interest in voice conversion (VC). Beyond timbre transfer, achieving controllability on para-linguistic parameters such as pitch and Speed is critical in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Meiying Chen , Zhiyao Duan

We present StreamVC, a streaming voice conversion solution that preserves the content and prosody of any source speech while matching the voice timbre from any target speech. Unlike previous approaches, StreamVC produces the resulting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yang Yang , Yury Kartynnik , Yunpeng Li , Jiuqiang Tang , Xing Li , George Sung , Matthias Grundmann

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

StreamVoice has recently pushed the boundaries of zero-shot voice conversion (VC) in the streaming domain. It uses a streamable language model (LM) with a context-aware approach to convert semantic features from automatic speech recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Zhichao Wang , Yuanzhe Chen , Xinsheng Wang , Lei Xie , Yuping Wang

Recent progress of voice conversion~(VC) has achieved a new milestone in speaker cloning and linguistic preservation. But the field remains fragmented, relying on specialized models for linguistic-preserving, expressive, and singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Zhichao Wang , Tao Li , Wenshuo Ge , Zihao Cui , Shilei Zhang , Junlan Feng

Recent advances in discrete audio codecs have significantly improved speech representation modeling, while codec language models have enabled in-context learning for zero-shot speech synthesis. Inspired by this, we propose a voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junchuan Zhao , Xintong Wang , Ye Wang

Voice style transfer, also called voice conversion, seeks to modify one speaker's voice to generate speech as if it came from another (target) speaker. Previous works have made progress on voice conversion with parallel training data and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Siyang Yuan , Pengyu Cheng , Ruiyi Zhang , Weituo Hao , Zhe Gan , Lawrence Carin

Traditional studies on voice conversion (VC) have made progress with parallel training data and known speakers. Good voice conversion quality is obtained by exploring better alignment modules or expressive mapping functions. In this study,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Jiachen Lian , Chunlei Zhang , Dong Yu