Abstract: We propose a joint training scheme of an any-to-one voice conversion (VC) system with LPCNet to improve the speech naturalness, speaker similarity, and intelligibility of the converted ...

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Abstract: The StarGANv2-VC model is a many-to-many non-parallel generative adversarial network (GAN) voice conversion (VC) model that has proven effective in style conversion tasks. This study aimed ...

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