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StyleStream 2.0: Fast and Controllable Streaming Voice Style Conversion

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Nicholas Lee
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Abstract

StyleStream 2.0 improves streaming voice conversion with lower latency via a few-step MeanFlow model and enables text-based voice design and editing through a unified flow matching model.

Voice style conversion (VSC) aims to transform a source utterance to match the timbre, accent, and emotion of a target voice while preserving linguistic content. StyleStream 1.0 introduced the first streamable zero-shot VSC system with state-of-the-art conversion quality, but remained limited in two ways: approximately 1s end-to-end latency on consumer hardware, and the lack of a text-based interface for designing or editing target voices. We present StyleStream 2.0, a fast and controllable streaming VSC framework that addresses these limitations. To reduce latency, we train a few-step pixel MeanFlow model and further fine-tune it with autoregressive feedback inspired by Self Forcing, improving robustness under streaming inference. This reduces end-to-end latency to 520~ms on a consumer GPU, a 2x speedup over StyleStream 1.0, while maintaining conversion quality. To enable controllable style manipulation, we remove the mel-spectrogram context and instead route target style information through a compact style embedding. In this embedding space, we train a unified text-conditioned flow matching model that supports both text-based voice design, which maps natural language prompts to voice styles, and instruction-based voice editing, which modifies a specific attribute of a source utterance while preserving the rest. Experiments show that StyleStream 2.0 achieves the strongest target style fidelity on VSC, voice design, and voice editing, while remaining competitive on intelligibility and non-edited attribute preservation.

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Excited to share StyleStream 2.0, our work on fast and controllable streaming voice style conversion, accepted to NeurIPS 2026!

StyleStream 2.0 enables real-time transformation of a speaker's voice while preserving what they say. Beyond converting a voice to match a reference speaker, our system also supports voice design from natural language descriptions (e.g., "a deep, warm, expressive voice") and targeted voice editing (e.g., "make the voice sound more excited") without changing the underlying speech content.

Our key contributions include:

  • Low-latency streaming: Voice transformation with just 520 ms of end-to-end latency on a consumer GPU, enabling interactive applications.
  • Flexible voice control: A unified framework for reference-based voice conversion, text-guided voice design, and targeted editing of voice attributes.
  • Efficient generation: Few-step MeanFlow generation and autoregressive feedback enable fast inference while maintaining high-quality speech and target-style fidelity.

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