0 Voice Conversion
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چکیده
Voice conversion (VC) is an area of speech processing that deals with the conversion of the perceived speaker identity. In other words, the speech signal uttered by a first speaker, the source speaker, is modified to sound as if it was spoken by a second speaker, referred to as the target speaker. The most obvious use case for voice conversion is text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis where VC techniques can be used for creating new and personalized voices in a cost-efficient manner. Other potential applications include security related usage (e.g. hiding the identity of the speaker), vocal pathology, voice restoration, as well as games and other entertainment applications. Yet other possible applications could be speech-to-speech translation and dubbing of television programs.
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