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This paper describes the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016 devised by the authors to better understand different voice conversion (VC) techniques by comparing their performance on a common dataset. The task of the challenge was speaker conversion, i.e., to transform the voice identity of a source speaker into that of a target speaker while preserving the linguistic content. Using a common dataset consisting of 162 utterances for training and 54 utterances for evaluation from each of 5 source and 5 target speakers, 17 groups working in VC around the world developed their own VC systems for every combination of the source and target speakers, i.e., 25 systems in total, and generated voice samples converted by the developed systems. These samples were evaluated in terms of target speaker similarity and naturalness by 200 listeners in a controlled environment. This paper summarizes the design of the challenge, its result, and a future plan to share views about unsolved problems and challenges faced by the current VC techniques.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Interspeech 2016 |
Publisher | International Speech Communication Association |
Pages | 1632-1636 |
Number of pages | 5 |
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Publication status | Published - 12 Sept 2016 |
Event | Interspeech 2016 - San Francisco, United States Duration: 8 Sept 2016 → 12 Sept 2016 http://www.interspeech2016.org/ |
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Publisher | International Speech Communication Association |
ISSN (Print) | 1990-9772 |
Conference
Conference | Interspeech 2016 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | San Francisco |
Period | 8/09/16 → 12/09/16 |
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Deep architectures for statistical speech synthesis
Yamagishi, J.
UK industry, commerce and public corporations
4/09/12 → 3/03/16
Project: Research
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The Voice Conversion Challenge 2016
Toda, T. (Creator), Chen, L. (Creator), Saito, D. (Creator), Villavicencio, F. (Creator), Wester, M. (Creator), Wu, Z. (Creator) & Yamagishi, J. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 23 Jun 2016
DOI: 10.7488/ds/1430
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