Tianhua Qi — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Enhancing Zero-Shot Emotional Voice Conversion via Speaker Adaptation and Duration Prediction

Shiyan Wang, Tianhua Qi, Cheng Lu, Zhaojie Luo, Wenming Zheng

ICASSP 2025accepted

Zero-shot Emotional Voice Conversion (EVC) aims to transform a speaker’s emotional state to match a target emotion, even for speakers and emotion categories that were not encountered during training, thereby enhancing the generalization ability of traditional EVC systems. Despite advancements in the…

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2024

PAVITS: Exploring Prosody-Aware VITS for End-to-End Emotional Voice Conversion

Tianhua Qi, Wenming Zheng, Cheng Lu, Yuan Zong, Hailun Lian

ICASSP 2024accepted

In this paper, we propose Prosody-aware VITS (PAVITS) for emotional voice conversion (EVC), aiming to achieve two major objectives of EVC: high content naturalness and high emotional naturalness, which are crucial for meeting the demands of human perception. To improve the content naturalness of con…

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