Audio samples from "Towards Natural Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion Based on Neural TTS Models and Phonetic Posteriorgrams" Authors: Shengkui Zhao, Hao Wang, Trung Hieu Nguyen, Bin MaNote: In our VC experiments, we have used the open TTS corpus JSUT from R. Sonobe, S. Takamichi, and H. Saruwatari, “JSUT corpus: free large-scale japanese speech corpus for end-to-end speech synthesis,” arXiv:1711.00354 [cs.CL], 2017.The English target speaker's voices from professional records: Text: I think it could be something to do with the soil and the climate.
Text: We are very concerned that it will not happen and we will be engaged.
Text: They arrive at the door of the food bank from all over the city.
The Mandarin target speaker’s voices from professional records: Text: 五千年传统文化信手拈来，被涂脂抹粉，戏谑调侃。
Text: 今天，和平广场里盛开着这样的黄玫瑰。
Text: 他说，他会将车收藏一辈子，以后再传给儿女们。
Cross-lingual voice conversion: Source speaker: Mandarin female; Target speaker: English female Text: 五千年传统文化信手拈来，被涂脂抹粉，戏谑调侃。
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Text: 他们家靠这个药，世代漂洗为生，日子过得艰难。
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Text: 众所周知，潍坊因风筝而在全国闻名遐迩。
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Source speaker: Mandarin male; Target speaker: English female Text: 一场关于食品安全的激烈讨论就此展开。
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Text: 一年年的春节，回家的故事一串串。
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Text: 一打听才知道，她今天是来领神秘大奖的。
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Source speaker: Japanese female; Target speaker: English female Text: ギレスピーは、マッギーを通じて、イネスと知り合った。
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Text: 森永のおいしい牛乳は、濃い青色に、牛乳瓶をあしらったデザインの、パック牛乳である。
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Text: 同日朝に、大阪難波で、出発セレモニーが開催され、営業運転に、充当された。
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Source speaker: English male; Target speaker: English female Text: I think it could be something to do with the soil and the climate.
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Text: But the jury failed to reach a verdict on the other two traders.
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Text: I was rushed to hospital a couple of weeks ago with my angina.
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Cross-lingual voice conversion: Source speaker: English female; Target speaker: Mandarin female Text: Hazel would like to sell the business.
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Text: Many people have lost their jobs altogether.
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Text: This is a serious accident, and we will do our utmost to identify the cause.
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Source speaker: English male; Target speaker: Mandarin female Text: I think it could be something to do with the soil and the climate.
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Text: But the jury failed to reach a verdict on the other two traders.
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FastSpeach-VC
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Text: I was rushed to hospital a couple of weeks ago with my angina.
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Source speaker: Japanese female; Target speaker: Mandarin female Text: ギレスピーは、マッギーを通じて、イネスと知り合った。
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Text: 森永のおいしい牛乳は、濃い青色に、牛乳瓶をあしらったデザインの、パック牛乳である。
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Text: 同日朝に、大阪難波で、出発セレモニーが開催され、営業運転に、充当された。
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Source speaker: Mandarin male; Target speaker: Mandarin female Text: 一场关于食品安全的激烈讨论就此展开。
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Text: 一年年的春节，回家的故事一串串。
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Text: 一打听才知道，她今天是来领神秘大奖的。
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Controllable voice speed: Source speaker: English female; Target speaker: Mandarin female Text: Hazel would like to sell the business.
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Text: Many people have lost their jobs altogether.
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Text: This is a serious accident, and we will do our utmost to identify the cause.
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Adaptation to limited data: Target speaker: Japanese female (500 utterances) Text: 伽马射线暴的一种致命来源是超超新星。
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Text: 一场关于食品安全的激烈讨论就此展开。
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Text: At last you will be able to sit back, relax and enjoy the fruits of your labour.
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Text: Life is hard enough for them and they need a bit of support.
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