scholarly journals A BLSTM and WaveNet-Based Voice Conversion Method With Waveform Collapse Suppression by Post-Processing

IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 54321-54329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaokong Miao ◽  
Xiongwei Zhang ◽  
Meng Sun ◽  
Changyan Zheng ◽  
Tieyong Cao
Keyword(s):  
Voice Conversion ◽  
Post Processing ◽  
Conversion Method

scholarly journals An Improved Fully Convolutional Network Based on Post-Processing with Global Variance Equalization and Noise-Aware Training for Speech Enhancement

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-137
Author(s):  
Wenlong Li ◽  
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Kaoru Hirota ◽  
Yaping Dai ◽  
Zhiyang Jia
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Speech Enhancement ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Voice Conversion ◽  
Post Processing ◽  
Generalization Capability ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Fully Convolutional Network ◽  
Subjective Score ◽  
Model Training

An improved fully convolutional network based on post-processing with global variance (GV) equalization and noise-aware training (PN-FCN) for speech enhancement model is proposed. It aims at reducing the complexity of the speech improvement system, and it solves overly smooth speech signal spectrogram problem and poor generalization capability. The PN-FCN is fed with the noisy speech samples augmented with an estimate of the noise. In this way, the PN-FCN uses additional online noise information to better predict the clean speech. Besides, PN-FCN uses the global variance information, which improve the subjective score in a voice conversion task. Finally, the proposed framework adopts FCN, and the number of parameters is one-seventh of deep neural network (DNN). Results of experiments on the Valentini-Botinhaos dataset demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves improvements in both denoising effect and model training speed.

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