TY - GEN
T1 - Voice conversion using conditional cycleGAN
AU - Yook, Dongsuk
AU - Yoo, In Chul
AU - Yoo, Seungho
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (NRF-2017R1E1A1A01078157). Also, it was partly supported by the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion (IITP) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIP) (No.2018-0-00269, A research on safe and convenient big data processing methods).
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© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Voice conversion (VC) modifies characteristics of speech, such as gender and speaker identities. The VC can be applied to various tasks including speaking assistance and speaker anonymization. Generally, such VC techniques require parallel speech data for training, which is very expensive. Recently, voice conversion has been accomplished using CycleGAN, which does not require parallel speech data. In this paper, we further extend the idea of using CycleGAN to convert multiple speakers' voices by conditioning the CycleGAN using speaker identity information.
AB - Voice conversion (VC) modifies characteristics of speech, such as gender and speaker identities. The VC can be applied to various tasks including speaking assistance and speaker anonymization. Generally, such VC techniques require parallel speech data for training, which is very expensive. Recently, voice conversion has been accomplished using CycleGAN, which does not require parallel speech data. In this paper, we further extend the idea of using CycleGAN to convert multiple speakers' voices by conditioning the CycleGAN using speaker identity information.
KW - Conditional CycleGAN (CC-GAN)
KW - CycleGAN
KW - Generative adversarial networks (GAN)
KW - Voice conversion
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078547147&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CSCI46756.2018.00290
DO - 10.1109/CSCI46756.2018.00290
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85078547147
T3 - Proceedings - 2018 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2018
SP - 1460
EP - 1461
BT - Proceedings - 2018 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2018
Y2 - 13 December 2018 through 15 December 2018
ER -