Many-to-many voice conversion method and system based on speaker style feature modeling

A speech conversion and speaker technology, applied in speech synthesis, speech analysis, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of inability to provide, information loss and noise, lack of speaker identity information, etc.

Active Publication Date: 2020-10-23
NANJING UNIV OF POSTS & TELECOMM
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However, since C-VAE is based on the ideal assumption that the observed data usually follows a Gaussian distribution, the output speech of the decoder is overly smooth, and the converted speech quality is not high
The voice conversion method based on the Cycle-GAN model uses the adversarial loss and the cycle consistent loss, and learns the forward mapping and inverse mapping of the acoustic features at the same time, which can effectively alleviate the problem of over-smoothing and improve the quality of the converted voice. However, Cycle-GAN can only achieve one One-to-one voice conversion
[0005] The voice conversion method based on the Star Generative Adversarial Network (StarGAN) model has the advantages of C-VAE and Cycle-GAN at the same time. The attributes of the output of the speaker are controlled by the speaker identity label, so many-to-many speech conversion under non-parallel text conditions can be realized, but there are ...

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[0076] The following will clearly and completely describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are only some of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of them. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by persons of ordinary skill in the art without making creative efforts belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

[0077] The present invention proposes a many-to-many speech conversion method based on speaker style feature modeling, which is to add a multi-layer perceptron and a style encoder to the traditional StarGAN neural network to achieve effective extraction and constraints on the speaker's style features. Using the speaker style feature instead of the speaker label feature overcomes the shortcomings of the limited speaker information carried by the ...

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The invention discloses a many-to-many voice conversion method and system based on speaker style feature modeling. Firstly, a multi-layer sensor and a style encoder are added to a StarGAN neural network, effective extraction and constraint of speaker style features are realized, the defect of limited speaker information carried by one-hot vectors in a traditional model is overcome, then, an adaptive instance normalization method is adopted to realize full fusion of semantic features and speaker personality features, so that the network can learn more semantic information and speaker personality information, furthermore, a lightweight network module SKNet is introduced into the generator residual error network, so that the network can adaptively adjust the size of a receptive field according to multiple scales of input information, the weight of each feature channel is adjusted through an attention mechanism, the learning ability of frequency spectrum features is enhanced, and the details of the frequency spectrum features are refined.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of voice conversion, in particular to a many-to-many voice conversion method based on speaker style feature modeling. Background technique [0002] Speech conversion is a research branch in the field of speech signal processing, which is developed and extended on the basis of speech analysis, synthesis and speaker recognition. The goal of speech conversion is to change the voice personality characteristics of the source speaker so that it has the personality characteristics of the target speaker, while keeping the semantic information unchanged, that is, to make the voice of the source speaker sound like the target speaker after conversion. voice. [0003] After years of research on speech conversion technology, many classic conversion methods have emerged. According to the classification of training corpus, they can be divided into conversion methods under parallel text conditions and conversion methods un...

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IPC IPC(8): G10L13/02G10L25/30G10L25/48G10L25/18G10L17/18
CPCG10L13/02G10L25/30G10L25/48G10L25/18G10L17/18
Inventor 李燕萍张成飞
Owner NANJING UNIV OF POSTS & TELECOMM
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