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Apart from the content of the language that expresses the speaker's purpose and intent, human speech also contains other content, including other information such as the identity of the speaker, his or her gender and approximate age, the Intonation and mode of expression, the feeling of the speaker, the parts emphasized in the speech and so on. "Voice conversion" seeks to change the speaker-dependent content in an audio signal so that speaker-independent content (especially language content) remains unchanged. In other words, the purpose in voice conversion is to change the audio signal of speech created by one person in order to create the notion that the same speech was spoken by someone...