
Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion remains an interesting but challenging speech processing task. Many style-transfer-inspired methods such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational autoencoders (VAEs) have been proposed. Recently, AutoVC, a conditional autoencoders (CAEs) based method achieved state-of-the-art results by disentangling the speaker identity and speech content using information-constraining bottlenecks, and it achieves zero-shot conversion by swapping in a different speaker's identity embedding to synthesize a new voice. However, we found that while speaker identity is disentangled from speech content, a significant amount of prosodic information, such as source F0, leaks through the bottleneck, causing target F0 to fluctuate unnaturally. Furthermore, AutoVC has no control of the converted F0 and thus unsuitable for many applications. In the paper, we modified and improved autoencoder-based voice conversion to disentangle content, F0, and speaker identity at the same time. Therefore, we can control the F0 contour, generate speech with F0 consistent with the target speaker, and significantly improve quality and similarity. We support our improvement through quantitative and qualitative analysis.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Sound (cs.SD), Machine Learning (stat.ML), Computer Science - Sound, Machine Learning (cs.LG), Statistics - Machine Learning, Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS), FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Sound (cs.SD), Machine Learning (stat.ML), Computer Science - Sound, Machine Learning (cs.LG), Statistics - Machine Learning, Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS), FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing
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