Towards Naturalistic Voice Conversion: NaturalVoices Dataset with an Automatic Processing Pipeline

Voice conversion (VC) research traditionally depends on scripted or acted speech, which lacks the natural spontaneity of real-life conversations. While natural speech data is limited for VC, our study focuses on filling in this gap. We introduce a novel data-sourcing pipeline that makes the release...

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Main Authors: Salman, Ali N, Du, Zongyang, Chandra, Shreeram Suresh, Ismail, Rasim Ulgen, Busso, Carlos, Sisman, Berrak
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description Voice conversion (VC) research traditionally depends on scripted or acted speech, which lacks the natural spontaneity of real-life conversations. While natural speech data is limited for VC, our study focuses on filling in this gap. We introduce a novel data-sourcing pipeline that makes the release of a natural speech dataset for VC, named NaturalVoices. The pipeline extracts rich information in speech such as emotion and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) from raw podcast data, utilizing recent deep learning methods and providing flexibility and ease of use. NaturalVoices marks a large-scale, spontaneous, expressive, and emotional speech dataset, comprising over 3,800 hours speech sourced from the original podcasts in the MSP-Podcast dataset. Objective and subjective evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of using our pipeline for providing natural and expressive data for VC, suggesting the potential of NaturalVoices for broader speech generation tasks.
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