Nowadays, it is common to release audio content to the public. However, with the rise of voice cloning technology, attackers have the potential to easily impersonate a specific person by utilizing his publicly released audio without any permission. Therefore, it becomes significant to detect any potential misuse of the released audio content and protect its timbre from being impersonated. To this end, we introduce a novel concept, "Timbre Watermarking", which embeds watermark information into the target individual's speech, eventually defeating the voice cloning attacks. To ensure the watermark is robust to the voice cloning model's learning process, we design an end-to-end voice cloning-resistant detection framework. The core idea of our solution is to embed and extract the watermark in the frequency domain in a temporally invariant manner. To acquire generalization across different voice cloning attacks, we modulate their shared process and integrate it into our framework as a distortion layer. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed timbre watermarking can defend against different voice cloning attacks, exhibit strong resistance against various adaptive attacks (e.g., reconstruction-based removal attacks, watermark overwriting attacks), and achieve practicality in real-world services such as PaddleSpeech, Voice-Cloning-App, and so-vits-svc. In addition, ablation studies are also conducted to verify the effectiveness of our design. Some audio samples are available at https://timbrewatermarking.github.io/samples.
With the increasing popularity of speech synthesis products, the industry has put forward more requirements for personalized speech synthesis: (1) How to use low-resource, easily accessible data to clone a person's voice. (2) How to clone a person's voice while controlling the style and prosody. To solve the above two problems, we proposed the Hieratron model framework in which the prosody and timbre are modeled separately using two modules, therefore, the independent control of timbre and the other characteristics of audio can be achieved while generating speech. The practice shows that, for …
In this paper, we study the disentanglement of speaker and language representations in non-autoregressive cross-lingual TTS models from various aspects. We propose a phoneme length regulator that solves the length mismatch problem between IPA input sequence and monolingual alignment results. Using the phoneme length regulator, we present a FastPitch-based cross-lingual model with IPA symbols as input representations. Our experiments show that language-independent input representations (e.g. IPA symbols), an increasing number of training speakers, and explicit modeling of speech variance inform…
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University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Public Security（公安部刑侦科学研究所）；The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）
Fed-PISA: Federated Voice Cloning via Personalized Identity-Style Adaptation
Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）；Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所）；Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院信息工程研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Towards Unified Song Generation and Singing Voice Conversion with Accompaniment Co-Generation
Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学）；Kuaishou Technology（快手科技）；Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）
Perturbation Self-Supervised Representations for Cross-Lingual Emotion TTS: Stage-Wise Modeling of Emotion and Speaker
Tianjin Key Laboratory of Cognitive Computing and Application（天津认知计算与应用重点实验室）；College of Intelligence and Computing（智能计算学院）；Tianjin University（天津大学）；Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI)（人工智能研究所）；China Telecom, China（中国电信）；Duke Kunshan University（杜克大学昆山学院）；Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学）；Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（深圳先进技术研究所，中国科学院）
DisCo-Speech: Controllable Zero-Shot Speech Generation with A Disentangled Speech Codec
China Mobile Nineverse Artificial Intelligence Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.（中国移动Nineverse人工智能技术（北京）有限公司）；Nineverse Institute of Artificial Intelligence（Nineverse人工智能研究院）；The State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, Peking University, Beijing, China（多媒体信息处理国家重点实验室，北京大学，北京，中国）
