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The multi-speaker multi-style voice cloning challenge 2021

  • Qicong Xie
  • , Xiaohai Tian
  • , Guanghou Liu
  • , Kun Song
  • , Lei Xie
  • , Zhiyong Wu
  • , Hai Li
  • , Song Shi
  • , Haizhou Li
  • , Fen Hong
  • , Hui Bu
  • , Xin Xu
  • Northwestern Polytechnical University Xian
  • National University of Singapore
  • Tsinghua University
  • IQIYI Inc
  • University of Bremen
  • Originbeat Inc
  • Beijing AISHELL Technology Co., Ltd.

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Abstract

The Multi-speaker Multi-style Voice Cloning Challenge (M2VoC) aims to provide a common sizable dataset as well as a fair testbed for the benchmarking of the popular voice cloning task. Specifically, we formulate the challenge to adapt an average TTS model to the stylistic target voice with limited data from target speaker, evaluated by speaker identity and style similarity. The challenge consists of two tracks, namely few-shot track and one-shot track, where the participants are required to clone multiple target voices with 100 and 5 samples respectively. There are also two sub-tracks in each track. For sub-track a, to fairly compare different strategies, the participants are allowed to use only the training data provided by the organizer strictly. For sub-track b, the participants are allowed to use any data publicly available. In this paper, we present a detailed explanation on the tasks and data used in the challenge, followed by a summary of submitted systems and evaluation results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2021 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages8613-8617
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781728176055
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2021 - Virtual, Toronto, Canada
Duration: 6 Jun 202111 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2021-June
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2021
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVirtual, Toronto
Period6/06/2111/06/21

Keywords

  • Speaker adaption
  • Speech synthesis
  • Transfer learning
  • Voice cloning

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