2025
EmoReg: Directional Latent Vector Modeling for Emotional Intensity Regularization in Diffusion-based Voice Conversion
Ashishkumar Prabhakar Gudmalwar, Ishan Darshan Biyani, Nirmesh J. Shah, Pankaj Wasnik, Rajiv Ratn Shah
AAAI 2025technical
The Emotional Voice Conversion (EVC) aims to convert the discrete emotional state from the source emotion to the target for a given speech utterance while preserving linguistic content. In this paper, we propose regularizing emotion intensity in the diffusion-based EVC framework to generate precise…