# FastVC: Fast Voice Conversion with non-parallel data

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04185 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.04185/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 8 Oct 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [ALO-VC: Any-to-any Low-latency One-shot Voice Conversion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.01100/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper introduces FastVC, an end-to-end model for fast Voice Conversion (VC). The proposed model can convert speech of arbitrary length from multiple source speakers to multiple target speakers. FastVC is based on a conditional AutoEncoder (AE) trained on non-parallel data and requires no annotations at all. This model's latent representation is shown to be speaker-independent and similar to phonemes, which is a desirable feature for VC systems. While the current VC systems primarily focus on achieving the highest overall speech quality, this paper tries to balance the development concerning resources needed to run the systems. Despite the simple structure of the proposed model, it outperforms the VC Challenge 2020 baselines on the cross-lingual task in terms of naturalness.