Voice conversion research paper using StarGAN v2
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This repository provides StarGANv2-VC, an unsupervised, non-parallel framework for diverse voice conversion. It enables many-to-many voice conversion, cross-lingual conversion, and stylistic speech conversion (e.g., emotional, falsetto) without requiring paired data or text labels. The target audience includes researchers and developers working on speech synthesis and voice manipulation.
How It Works
StarGANv2-VC leverages a generative adversarial network (GAN) architecture. It employs an adversarial source classifier loss and a perceptual loss to achieve natural-sounding voice conversion. A key component is the style encoder, which allows for the conversion of plain speech into various styles, enhancing the model's versatility. This approach enables high-quality conversion that rivals state-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) systems, even in real-time with compatible vocoders.
Quick Start & Requirements
pip install SoundFile torchaudio munch parallel_wavegan pydub pyyaml click librosa
config.yml
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Maintenance & Community
The project is associated with Yinghao Aaron Li and Nima Mesgarani. Further details on community or roadmap are not explicitly provided in the README.
Licensing & Compatibility
The repository's licensing is not explicitly stated in the README. Compatibility for commercial use or closed-source linking would require clarification.
Limitations & Caveats
While the provided ASR model works for other languages, retraining custom ASR and F0 models is recommended for optimal performance on non-English or non-speech data. The README notes that batch_size = 5
requires approximately 10GB of GPU RAM, indicating a significant hardware requirement for training.
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