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Preserving a speaker's voice identity while generating speech in a different language remains a fundamental challenge in spoken language technology, particularly in specialized domains such as scientific communication. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Amanuel Gizachew Abebe , Yasmin Moslem

This paper presents a high quality singing synthesizer that is able to model a voice with limited available recordings. Based on the sequence-to-sequence singing model, we design a multi-singer framework to leverage all the existing singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Jie Wu , Jian Luan

Voice Cloning has rapidly advanced in today's digital world, with many researchers and corporations working to improve these algorithms for various applications. This article aims to establish a standardized terminology for voice cloning…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Hussam Azzuni , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

The potential of synthetic data in text-to-speech (TTS) model training has gained increasing attention, yet its rationality and effectiveness require systematic validation. In this study, we systematically investigate the feasibility of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tingxiao Zhou , Leying Zhang , Zhengyang Chen , Yanmin Qian

In this paper, we focus on improving the performance of the text-dependent speaker verification system in the scenario of limited training data. The speaker verification system deep learning based text-dependent generally needs a large…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xiaoyi Qin , Yaogen Yang , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

Existing singing voice synthesis models (SVS) are usually trained on singing data and depend on either error-prone time-alignment and duration features or explicit music score information. In this paper, we propose Karaoker, a multispeaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Panos Kakoulidis , Nikolaos Ellinas , Georgios Vamvoukakis , Konstantinos Markopoulos , June Sig Sung , Gunu Jho , Pirros Tsiakoulis , Aimilios Chalamandaris

Speech representation learning has improved both speech understanding and speech synthesis tasks for single language. However, its ability in cross-lingual scenarios has not been explored. In this paper, we extend the pretraining method for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Xiaoran Fan , Chao Pang , Tian Yuan , He Bai , Renjie Zheng , Pengfei Zhu , Shuohuan Wang , Junkun Chen , Zeyu Chen , Liang Huang , Yu Sun , Hua Wu

With the popularity of deep neural network, speech synthesis task has achieved significant improvements based on the end-to-end encoder-decoder framework in the recent days. More and more applications relying on speech synthesis technology…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Dongyang Dai , Li Chen , Yuping Wang , Mu Wang , Rui Xia , Xuchen Song , Zhiyong Wu , Yuxuan Wang

Cloned voices of popular singers sound increasingly realistic and have gained popularity over the past few years. They however pose a threat to the industry due to personality rights concerns. As such, methods to identify the original…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Dorian Desblancs , Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal , Romain Hennequin , Manuel Moussallam

This paper proposes a new architecture for speaker adaptation of multi-speaker neural-network speech synthesis systems, in which an unseen speaker's voice can be built using a relatively small amount of speech data without transcriptions.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-21 Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi

The present paper describes singing voice synthesis based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Singing voice synthesis systems based on deep neural networks (DNNs) are currently being proposed and are improving the naturalness of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Kazuhiro Nakamura , Shinji Takaki , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

We propose a unified framework for Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) and Conversion (SVC), addressing the limitations of existing approaches in cross-domain SVS/SVC, poor output musicality, and scarcity of singing data. Our framework enables…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Shuqi Dai , Yunyun Wang , Roger B. Dannenberg , Zeyu Jin

With the increasing popularity of speech synthesis products, the industry has put forward more requirements for personalized speech synthesis: (1) How to use low-resource, easily accessible data to clone a person's voice. (2) How to clone a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Dongyang Dai , Yuanzhe Chen , Li Chen , Ming Tu , Lu Liu , Rui Xia , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang

Voice cloning is a prominent feature in personalized speech interfaces. A neural vocal cloning system can mimic someone's voice using just a few audio samples. Both speaker encoding and speaker adaptation are topics of research in the field…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Manjil Karki , Pratik Shakya , Sandesh Acharya , Ravi Pandit , Dinesh Gothe

With recent advancements in voice cloning, the performance of speech synthesis for a target speaker has been rendered similar to the human level. However, autoregressive voice cloning systems still suffer from text alignment failures,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Artem Gorodetskii , Ivan Ozhiganov

Recent advances in singing voice synthesis (SVS) have attracted substantial attention from both academia and industry. With the advent of large language models and novel generative paradigms, producing controllable, high-fidelity singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Changhao Pan , Dongyu Yao , Yu Zhang , Wenxiang Guo , Jingyu Lu , Zhiyuan Zhu , Zhou Zhao

In singing voice synthesis (SVS), generating singing voices from musical scores faces challenges due to limited data availability. This study proposes a unique strategy to address the data scarcity in SVS. We employ an existing singing…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Jiatong Shi , Yueqian Lin , Xinyi Bai , Keyi Zhang , Yuning Wu , Yuxun Tang , Yifeng Yu , Qin Jin , Shinji Watanabe

Recent studies in singing voice synthesis have achieved high-quality results leveraging advances in text-to-speech models based on deep neural networks. One of the main issues in training singing voice synthesis models is that they require…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Soonbeom Choi , Juhan Nam

Learning-based Text To Speech systems have the potential to generalize from one speaker to the next and thus require a relatively short sample of any new voice. However, this promise is currently largely unrealized. We present a method that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Eliya Nachmani , Adam Polyak , Yaniv Taigman , Lior Wolf

This research presents a few-shot voice cloning system for Nepali speakers, designed to synthesize speech in a specific speaker's voice from Devanagari text using minimal data. Voice cloning in Nepali remains largely unexplored due to its…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Aayush M. Shrestha , Aditya Bajracharya , Projan Shakya , Dinesh B. Kshatri