Ting Zhou

Dr. Ting Zhou


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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14 May 2025 in Applied Sciences
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YWYanze Wang
Yanze Wang
XHXuming Han
Xuming Han
SLShuai Lv
Shuai Lv
TZTing Zhou
Ting Zhou
YCYali Chu
Yali Chu
Voice conversion (VC) is an advanced technology that enables the transformation of raw speech into high-quality audio resembling the target speaker’s voice while preserving the original linguistic content and prosodic patterns. In this study, we propose a voice conversion algorithm, Multi-Dimensional Perception Flow Matching (MPFM-VC). Unlike traditional approaches that directly generate waveform outputs, MPFM-VC models the evolutionary trajectory of mel spectrograms with a flow-matching framework and incorporates a multi-dimensional feature perception network to enhance the stability and quality of speech synthesis. Additionally, we introduce a content perturbation method during training to improve the model’s generalization ability and reduce inference-time artifacts. To further increase speaker similarity, an adversarial training mechanism on speaker embeddings is employed to achieve effective disentanglement between content and speaker identity representations, thereby enhancing the timbre consistency of the converted speech. Experimental results for both speech and singing voice conversion tasks show that MPFM-VC achieves competitive performance compared to existing state-of-the-art VC models in both subjective and objective evaluation metrics. The synthesized speech shows improved naturalness, clarity, and timbre fidelity in both objective and subjective evaluations, suggesting the potential effectiveness of the proposed approach.

22 April 2025 in Preprints.org
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YWYanze Wang
Yanze Wang
XHXuming Han
Xuming Han
SLShuai Lv
Shuai Lv
TZTing Zhou
Ting Zhou
YCYali Chu
Yali Chu
Although emotional speech synthesis has seen significant progress, existing methods often struggle to generate naturally fluent emotional expression and face trade-offs between emotional richness and overall speech quality. We propose a Emotionally Expressive Speech and Singing Voice Synthesis with Large Language Models via Flow Matching, LLFM-Voice, a unified framework that enhances emotional expressiveness in both speech and singing voice synthesis. Our method leverages the contextual modeling capabilities of large language models and incorporates emotional information through an autoregressive mechanism. To further capture musical nuances in singing, we design a fine-grained emotional generator that integrates vocal techniques, tension, and pitch for precise control of expressive singing. In addition, we introduce a flow matching-based acoustic model that models the temporal evolution of mel spectrograms instead of predicting them directly, thereby mitigating artifacts introduced by conventional spectral modeling. Experiments show that LLFM-Voice outperforms baseline systems across multiple emotional expressiveness metrics, producing speech with richer emotional content and singing voices with more natural melodic expression.

18 April 2025 in Preprints.org
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YWYanze Wang
Yanze Wang
XHXuming Han
Xuming Han
SLShuai Lv
Shuai Lv
TZTing Zhou
Ting Zhou
YCYali Chu
Yali Chu
Voice conversion (VC) is a cutting-edge technology that enables the transformation of raw speech into high-quality audio resembling a target speaker, while preserving the original linguistic content and prosodic patterns.In this paper, we propose a novel voice conversion algorithm, Multi-Dimensional Perception Flow Matching (MPFM-VC).Unlike traditional approaches that directly generate waveform outputs, MPFM-VC models the evolutionary trajectory of mel-spectrograms through a flow matching framework, and incorporates a multi-dimensional feature perception network to enhance the stability and quality of speech synthesis. Additionally, we introduce a content perturbation method during training to improve the model’s generalization ability and reduce inference-time artifacts. To further increase speaker similarity, an adversarial training mechanism on speaker embeddings is employed to achieve effective disentanglement between content and speaker identity representations, thereby enhancing the timbre consistency of the converted speech. Experimental results on both speech and singing voice conversion tasks demonstrate that MPFM-VC outperforms existing state-of-the-art VC models in both subjective and objective evaluation metrics. The synthesized speech exhibits significantly improved naturalness, clarity, and timbre fidelity, validating the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

4 August 2025 in Applied Sciences
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DHDongni Hu
Dongni Hu
XHXuming Han
Xuming Han
MGMinghan Gao
Minghan Gao
YCYali Chu
Yali Chu
TZTing Zhou
Ting Zhou
Existing heuristic algorithms are based on inspiration sources and have not yet done a good job of basing themselves on optimization principles to minimize and utilize historical information, which may lead to low efficiency, accuracy, and stability of the algorithm. To solve this problem, a personalized-template-guided intelligent evolutionary algorithm named PTG is proposed. The core idea of PTG is to generate personalized templates to guide particle optimization. We also find that high-quality templates can be generated to guide the exploration and exploitation of particles by using the information of the population particles when the optimal value remains unchanged, the knowledge of population distribution changes, and the dimensional distribution properties of particles themselves. By conducting an ablation study and comparative experiments on the challenging CEC2022 test and CEC2005 test functions, we have validated the effectiveness of our method and concluded that the stability and accuracy of the solutions obtained by PTG are superior to other algorithms. Finally, we further verified the effectiveness of PTG through four engineering problems.

22 August 2026 in Cluster Computing
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LZLiying Zhong
Liying Zhong
XHXuming Han
Xuming Han
TZTing Zhou
Ting Zhou
YCYali Chu
Yali Chu