readme: ---
  license: mit
  tags:
  - speech
  - text
  - cross-modal
  - unified model
  - self-supervised learning
  - SpeechT5
  - Voice Conversion
  datasets:
  - CMU ARCTIC
  - bdl
  - clb
  - rms
  - slt
  ---
  
  ## SpeechT5 VC Manifest
  
  | [**Github**](https://github.com/microsoft/SpeechT5) | [**Huggingface**](https://huggingface.co/mechanicalsea/speecht5-vc) |
  
  This manifest is an attempt to recreate the Voice Conversion recipe used for training [SpeechT5](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.393). This manifest was constructed using [CMU ARCTIC](http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/) four speakers, e.g., bdl, clb, rms, slt. There are 932 utterances for training, 100 utterances for validation, and 100 utterance for evaluation.
  
  ### Requirements
  
  - [SpeechBrain](https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain) for extracting speaker embedding
  - [Parallel WaveGAN](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN) for implementing vocoder.
  
  ### Tools
  
  - `manifest/utils` is used to extract speaker embedding, generate manifest, and apply vocoder.
  - `manifest/arctic*` provides the pre-trained vocoder for each speaker.
  
  ### Model and Samples
  
  - [`speecht5_vc.pt`](./speecht5_vc.pt) are reimplemented Voice Conversion fine-tuning on the released manifest **but with a smaller batch size or max updates** (Ensure the manifest is ok).
  - `samples` are created by the released fine-tuned model and vocoder.
  
  ### Reference
  
  If you find our work is useful in your research, please cite the following paper:
  
  ```bibtex
  @inproceedings{ao-etal-2022-speecht5,
      title = {{S}peech{T}5: Unified-Modal Encoder-Decoder Pre-Training for Spoken Language Processing},
      author = {Ao, Junyi and Wang, Rui and Zhou, Long and Wang, Chengyi and Ren, Shuo and Wu, Yu and Liu, Shujie and Ko, Tom and Li, Qing and Zhang, Yu and Wei, Zhihua and Qian, Yao and Li, Jinyu and Wei, Furu},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
      month = {May},
      year = {2022},
      pages={5723--5738},
  }
  ```
  