Speaking Style Conversion in the Waveform Domain Using Discrete Self-Supervised Units

Gallil Maimon; Yossi Adi

doi:10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.541

Speaking Style Conversion in the Waveform Domain Using Discrete Self-Supervised Units

Gallil Maimon, Yossi Adi

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Abstract

We introduce DISSC, a novel, lightweight method that converts the rhythm, pitch contour and timbre of a recording to a target speaker in a textless manner. Unlike DISSC, most voice conversion (VC) methods focus primarily on timbre, and ignore people's unique speaking style (prosody). The proposed approach uses a pretrained, self-supervised model for encoding speech to discrete units, which makes it simple, effective, and fast to train. All conversion modules are only trained on reconstruction like tasks, thus suitable for any-to-many VC with no paired data. We introduce a suite of quantitative and qualitative evaluation metrics for this setup, and empirically demonstrate that DISSC significantly outperforms the evaluated baselines. Code and samples are available at https://pages.cs.huji.ac.il/adiyoss-lab/dissc/.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	EMNLP 2023
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	8048-8061
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9798891760615
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.541
State	Published - 1 Jan 2023
Externally published	Yes
Event	2023 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 6 Dec 2023 → 10 Dec 2023

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Name	Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023

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Conference	2023 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	6/12/23 → 10/12/23

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computational Theory and Mathematics
Computer Science Applications
Information Systems
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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Maimon, G., & Adi, Y. (2023). Speaking Style Conversion in the Waveform Domain Using Discrete Self-Supervised Units. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 (pp. 8048-8061). (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.541

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Maimon, G & Adi, Y 2023, Speaking Style Conversion in the Waveform Domain Using Discrete Self-Supervised Units. in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 8048-8061, 2023 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, Singapore, Singapore, 6/12/23. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.541

Speaking Style Conversion in the Waveform Domain Using Discrete Self-Supervised Units. / Maimon, Gallil; Adi, Yossi.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023. p. 8048-8061 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023).

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