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Singing voice conversion aims to transform a source singing voice into that of a target singer while preserving the original lyrics, melody, and various vocal techniques. In this paper, we propose a high-fidelity singing voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yiquan Zhou , Wenyu Wang , Hongwu Ding , Jiacheng Xu , Jihua Zhu , Xin Gao , Shihao Li

Melody extraction in polyphonic musical audio is important for music signal processing. In this paper, we propose a novel streamlined encoder/decoder network that is designed for the task. We make two technical contributions. First, drawing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-19 Tsung-Han Hsieh , Li Su , Yi-Hsuan Yang

We study the problem of stereo singing voice cancellation, a subtask of music source separation, whose goal is to estimate an instrumental background from a stereo mix. We explore how to achieve performance similar to large state-of-the-art…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Clara Borrelli , James Rae , Dogac Basaran , Matt McVicar , Mehrez Souden , Matthias Mauch

Singing voice separation based on deep learning relies on the usage of time-frequency masking. In many cases the masking process is not a learnable function or is not encapsulated into the deep learning optimization. Consequently, most of…

A vocoder is a conditional audio generation model that converts acoustic features such as mel-spectrograms into waveforms. Taking inspiration from Differentiable Digital Signal Processing (DDSP), we propose a new vocoder named SawSing for…

Music source separation is important for applications such as karaoke and remixing. Much of previous research focuses on estimating short-time Fourier transform (STFT) magnitude and discarding phase information. We observe that, for singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Yixuan Zhang , Yuzhou Liu , DeLiang Wang

Separating a singing voice from its music accompaniment remains an important challenge in the field of music information retrieval. We present a unique neural network approach inspired by a technique that has revolutionized the field of…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Kin Wah Edward Lin , Balamurali B. T. , Enyan Koh , Simon Lui , Dorien Herremans

In this work, we present a method for learning interpretable music signal representations directly from waveform signals. Our method can be trained using unsupervised objectives and relies on the denoising auto-encoder model that uses a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Stylianos I. Mimilakis , Konstantinos Drossos , Gerald Schuller

Separating vocal elements from musical tracks is a longstanding challenge in audio signal processing. This study tackles the distinct separation of vocal components from musical spectrograms. We employ the Short Time Fourier Transform…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Adam Sorrenti

The present paper describes a 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 2019-06-26 Kazuhiro Nakamura , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Recently, deep learning-based generative models have been introduced to generate singing voices. One approach is to predict the parametric vocoder features consisting of explicit speech parameters. This approach has the advantage that the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Tae-Woo Kim , Min-Su Kang , Gyeong-Hoon Lee

In the domain of music and sound processing, pitch extraction plays a pivotal role. Our research presents a specialized convolutional neural network designed for pitch extraction, particularly from the human singing voice in acapella…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jeremy Cochoy

Tracking beats of singing voices without the presence of musical accompaniment can find many applications in music production, automatic song arrangement, and social media interaction. Its main challenge is the lack of strong rhythmic and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Mojtaba Heydari , Zhiyao Duan

General-purpose audio representations have proven effective across diverse music information retrieval applications, yet their utility in intelligent music production remains limited by insufficient understanding of audio effects (Fx).…

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method for multiple music source separation using convolutional neural networks. Stacked hourglass network, which was originally designed for human pose estimation in natural images, is…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Sungheon Park , Taehoon Kim , Kyogu Lee , Nojun Kwak

Audio source separation is the process of separating a mixture (e.g. a pop band recording) into isolated sounds from individual sources (e.g. just the lead vocals). Deep learning models are the state-of-the-art in source separation, given…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Alisa Liu , Prem Seetharaman , Bryan Pardo

Supervised deep learning approaches to underdetermined audio source separation achieve state-of-the-art performance but require a dataset of mixtures along with their corresponding isolated source signals. Such datasets can be extremely…

The problem of pitch tracking has been extensively studied in the speech research community. The goal of this paper is to investigate how these techniques should be adapted to singing voice analysis, and to provide a comparative evaluation…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Onur Babacan , Thomas Drugman , Nicolas d'Alessandro , Nathalie Henrich , Thierry Dutoit

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) aims to transform a source singing voice into a target singer while preserving lyrics and melody. Most existing SVC methods depend on F0 extractors to capture the lead melody from clean vocals. However, no…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chen Geng , Meng Chen , Ruohua Zhou , Ruolan Liu , Weifeng Zhao

Separating two sources from an audio mixture is an important task with many applications. It is a challenging problem since only one signal channel is available for analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for singing voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Zhe-Cheng Fan , Yen-Lin Lai , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang