Voice Conversion with Diverse Intonation using Conditional Variational Auto-Encoder

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Hauptverfasser: Suh, Soobin, Ahn, Dabi, Park, Heewoong, Park, Jonghun
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author Suh, Soobin
Ahn, Dabi
Park, Heewoong
Park, Jonghun
author_facet Suh, Soobin
Ahn, Dabi
Park, Heewoong
Park, Jonghun
contents Voice conversion is a task of synthesizing an utterance with target speaker's voice while maintaining linguistic information of the source utterance. While a speaker can produce varying utterances from a single script with different intonations, conventional voice conversion models were limited to producing only one result per source input. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel approach for voice conversion with diverse intonations using conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE). Experiments have shown that the speaker's style feature can be mapped into a latent space with Gaussian distribution. We have also been able to convert voices with more diverse intonation by making the posterior of the latent space more complex with inverse autoregressive flow (IAF). As a result, the converted voice not only has a diversity of intonations, but also has better sound quality than the model without CVAE.
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spellingShingle Voice Conversion with Diverse Intonation using Conditional Variational Auto-Encoder
Suh, Soobin
Ahn, Dabi
Park, Heewoong
Park, Jonghun
Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
Voice conversion is a task of synthesizing an utterance with target speaker's voice while maintaining linguistic information of the source utterance. While a speaker can produce varying utterances from a single script with different intonations, conventional voice conversion models were limited to producing only one result per source input. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel approach for voice conversion with diverse intonations using conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE). Experiments have shown that the speaker's style feature can be mapped into a latent space with Gaussian distribution. We have also been able to convert voices with more diverse intonation by making the posterior of the latent space more complex with inverse autoregressive flow (IAF). As a result, the converted voice not only has a diversity of intonations, but also has better sound quality than the model without CVAE.
title Voice Conversion with Diverse Intonation using Conditional Variational Auto-Encoder
topic Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12005