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Title: Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion With Controllable Speaker Individuality Using Variational Autoencoder and Star Generative Adversarial Network
Authors: Ho, Tuan Vu
Akagi, Masato
Keywords: Voice conversion
cross-lingual
controllable speaker individuality
variational autoencoder
generative adversarial network
Issue Date: 2021-03-02
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Magazine name: IEEE Access
Volume: 9
Start page: 47503
End page: 47515
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3063519
Abstract: This paper proposes a non-parallel cross-lingual voice conversion (CLVC) model that can mimic voice while continuously controlling speaker individuality on the basis of the variational autoencoder (VAE) and star generative adversarial network (StarGAN). Most studies on CLVC only focused on mimicking a particular speaker voice without being able to arbitrarily modify the speaker individuality. In practice, the ability to generate speaker individuality may be more useful than just mimicking voice. Therefore, the proposed model reliably extracts the speaker embedding from different languages using a VAE. An F0 injection method is also introduced into our model to enhance the F0 modeling in the cross-lingual setting. To avoid the over-smoothing degradation problem of the conventional VAE, the adversarial training scheme of the StarGAN is adopted to improve the training-objective function of the VAE in a CLVC task. Objective and subjective measurements confirm the effectiveness of the proposed model and F0 injection method. Furthermore, speaker-similarity measurement on fictitious voices reveal a strong linear relationship between speaker individuality and interpolated speaker embedding, which indicates that speaker individuality can be controlled with our proposed model.
Rights: Tuan Vu Ho, Masato Akagi, IEEE Access, 9, 2021, pp.47503-47515. DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3063519. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10119/17067
Material Type: publisher
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