Adversarial Speaker Disentanglement Using Unannotated External Data for Self-supervised Representation Based Voice Conversion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09167v1
• Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 04:52:29 GMT
• Title: Adversarial Speaker Disentanglement Using Unannotated External Data for Self-supervised Representation Based Voice Conversion
• Authors: Xintao Zhao, Shuai Wang, Yang Chao, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng,
• Abstract summary: We propose a high-similarity any-to-one voice conversion method with the input of SSL representations. Experimental results show that our proposed method achieves comparable similarity and higher naturalness than the supervised method.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Nowadays, recognition-synthesis-based methods have been quite popular with voice conversion (VC). By introducing linguistics features with good disentangling characters extracted from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, the VC performance achieved considerable breakthroughs. Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) methods trained with a large-scale unannotated speech corpus have been applied to downstream tasks focusing on the content information, which is suitable for VC tasks. However, a huge amount of speaker information in SSL representations degrades timbre similarity and the quality of converted speech significantly. To address this problem, we proposed a high-similarity any-to-one voice conversion method with the input of SSL representations. We incorporated adversarial training mechanisms in the synthesis module using external unannotated corpora. Two auxiliary discriminators were trained to distinguish whether a sequence of mel-spectrograms has been converted by the acoustic model and whether a sequence of content embeddings contains speaker information from external corpora. Experimental results show that our proposed method achieves comparable similarity and higher naturalness than the supervised method, which needs a huge amount of annotated corpora for training and is applicable to improve similarity for VC methods with other SSL representations as input.

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