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Singing voice separation attempts to separate the vocal and instrumental parts of a music recording, which is a fundamental problem in music information retrieval. Recent work on singing voice separation has shown that the low-rank…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-12 Tak-Shing T. Chan , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Choral music separation refers to the task of extracting tracks of voice parts (e.g., soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) from mixed audio. The lack of datasets has impeded research on this topic as previous work has only been able to train and…

In this paper, we propose a method of utilizing aligned lyrics as additional information to improve the performance of singing voice separation. We have combined the highway network-based lyrics encoder into Open-unmix separation network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Chang-Bin Jeon , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Kyogu Lee

We consider the problem of audio voice separation for binaural applications, such as earphones and hearing aids. While today's neural networks perform remarkably well (separating $4+$ sources with 2 microphones) they assume a known or fixed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Zhongweiyang Xu , Romit Roy Choudhury

Supervised deep learning methods for performing audio source separation can be very effective in domains where there is a large amount of training data. While some music domains have enough data suitable for training a separation system,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Andreas Bugler , Bryan Pardo , Prem Seetharaman

The performance of deep neural network-based speech enhancement systems typically increases with the training dataset size. However, studies that investigated the effect of training dataset size on speech enhancement performance did not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Philippe Gonzalez , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Tommy Sonne Alstrøm , Tobias May

A novel model was recently proposed by Schulze-Forster et al. in [1] for unsupervised music source separation. This model allows to tackle some of the major shortcomings of existing source separation frameworks. Specifically, it eliminates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Gael Richard , Pierre Chouteau , Bernardo Torres

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) is a task that aims to generate audio signals according to musical scores and lyrics. With its multifaceted nature concerning music and language, producing singing voices indistinguishable from that of human…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Yin-Ping Cho , Fu-Rong Yang , Yung-Chuan Chang , Ching-Ting Cheng , Xiao-Han Wang , Yi-Wen Liu

The advancement of machine learning in audio analysis has opened new possibilities for technology-enhanced music education. This paper introduces a framework for automatic singing mistake detection in the context of music pedagogy,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Sumit Kumar , Suraj Jaiswal , Parampreet Singh , Vipul Arora

In music source separation, a standard training data augmentation procedure is to create new training samples by randomly combining instrument stems from different songs. These random mixes have mismatched characteristics compared to real…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Chang-Bin Jeon , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Jonathan Le Roux

Singing voice detection (SVD), to recognize vocal parts in the song, is an essential task in music information retrieval (MIR). The task remains challenging since singing voice varies and intertwines with the accompaniment music, especially…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Yifu Sun , Xulong Zhang , Yi Yu , Xi Chen , Wei Li

The lack of a publicly-available large-scale and diverse dataset has long been a significant bottleneck for singing voice applications like Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) and Singing Voice Conversion (SVC). To tackle this problem, we present…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yicheng Gu , Chaoren Wang , Junan Zhang , Xueyao Zhang , Zihao Fang , Haorui He , Zhizheng Wu

In recent studies, diffusion models have shown promise as priors for solving audio inverse problems. These models allow us to sample from the posterior distribution of a target signal given an observed signal by manipulating the diffusion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Chin-Yun Yu , Emilian Postolache , Emanuele Rodolà , György Fazekas

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

This paper presents a new method of singing voice analysis that performs mutually-dependent singing voice separation and vocal fundamental frequency (F0) estimation. Vocal F0 estimation is considered to become easier if singing voices can…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Yukara Ikemiya , Katsutoshi Itoyama , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

We study the problem of semi-supervised singing voice separation, in which the training data contains a set of samples of mixed music (singing and instrumental) and an unmatched set of instrumental music. Our solution employs a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Michael Michelashvili , Sagie Benaim , Lior Wolf

Automatic singing voice understanding tasks, such as singer identification, singing voice transcription, and singing technique classification, benefit from data-driven approaches that utilize deep learning techniques. These approaches work…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuya Yamamoto

This paper presents a benchmark for singing voice enhancement. The development of singing voice enhancement is limited by the lack of realistic evaluation data. To address this gap, this paper introduces SingVERSE, the first real-world…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Shaohan Jiang , Junan Zhang , Yunjia Zhang , Jing Yang , Fan Fan , Zhizheng Wu

Building a high-quality singing corpus for a person who is not good at singing is non-trivial, thus making it challenging to create a singing voice synthesizer for this person. Learn2Sing is dedicated to synthesizing the singing voice of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Heyang Xue , Xinsheng Wang , Yongmao Zhang , Lei Xie , Pengcheng Zhu , Mengxiao Bi

Recent advancements in foundation models have sparked interest in respiratory audio foundation models. However, the effectiveness of applying conventional pre-training schemes to datasets that are small-sized and lack diversity has not been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Masahiro Yasuda , Binh Thien Nguyen , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada