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This paper aims to introduce a robust singing voice synthesis (SVS) system to produce very natural and realistic singing voices efficiently by leveraging the adversarial training strategy. On one hand, we designed simple but generic random…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zewang Zhang , Yibin Zheng , Xinhui Li , Li Lu

While existing Singing Voice Synthesis systems achieve high-fidelity solo performances, they are constrained by global timbre control, failing to address dynamic multi-singer arrangement and vocal texture within a single song. To address…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiatao Chen , Xing Tang , Xiaoyue Duan , Yutang Feng , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) aims to generate expressive and high-quality vocals from musical scores, requiring precise modeling of pitch, duration, and articulation. While diffusion-based models have achieved remarkable success in image…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kehan Sui , Jinxu Xiang , Fang Jin

Recent singing-voice-synthesis (SVS) methods have achieved remarkable audio quality and naturalness, yet they lack the capability to control the style attributes of the synthesized singing explicitly. We propose Prompt-Singer, the first SVS…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yongqi Wang , Ruofan Hu , Rongjie Huang , Zhiqing Hong , Ruiqi Li , Wenrui Liu , Fuming You , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

Identifying singers is an important task with many applications. However, the task remains challenging due to many issues. One major issue is related to the confounding factors from the background instrumental music that is mixed with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Tsung-Han Hsieh , Kai-Hsiang Cheng , Zhe-Cheng Fan , Yu-Ching Yang , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) has witnessed significant advancements with the advent of deep learning techniques. However, a significant challenge in SVS is the scarcity of labeled singing voice data, which limits the effectiveness of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yifeng Yu , Jiatong Shi , Yuning Wu , Yuxun Tang , Shinji Watanabe

Recently, denoising diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance among generative models in various domains. However, in the speech domain, the application of diffusion models for synthesizing time-varying audio faces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Ji-Sang Hwang , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Recent studies show the ability of unsupervised models to learn invertible audio representations using Auto-Encoders. They enable high-quality sound synthesis but a limited control since the latent spaces do not disentangle timbre…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Antoine Caillon , Adrien Bitton , Brice Gatinet , Philippe Esling

Sixty participants provided dissimilarity ratings between various singing techniques. Multidimensional scaling, class averaging and clustering techniques were used to analyse timbral spaces and how they change between different singers,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Brendan O'Connor , Simon Dixon , George Fazekas

It is challenging to build a multi-singer high-fidelity singing voice synthesis system with cross-lingual ability by only using monolingual singers in the training stage. In this paper, we propose CrossSinger, which is a cross-lingual…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xintong Wang , Chang Zeng , Jun Chen , Chunhui Wang

In the existing cross-speaker style transfer task, a source speaker with multi-style recordings is necessary to provide the style for a target speaker. However, it is hard for one speaker to express all expected styles. In this paper, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-24 Qicong Xie , Tao Li , Xinsheng Wang , Zhichao Wang , Lei Xie , Guoqiao Yu , Guanglu Wan

This paper proposes an expressive singing voice synthesis system by introducing explicit vibrato modeling and latent energy representation. Vibrato is essential to the naturalness of synthesized sound, due to the inherent characteristics of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yingjie Song , Wei Song , Wei Zhang , Zhengchen Zhang , Dan Zeng , Zhi Liu , Yang Yu

We propose Serenade, a novel framework for the singing style conversion (SSC) task. Although singer identity conversion has made great strides in the previous years, converting the singing style of a singer has been an unexplored research…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lester Phillip Violeta , Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Toda

In this paper, we develop a new multi-singer Chinese neural singing voice synthesis (SVS) system named WeSinger. To improve the accuracy and naturalness of synthesized singing voice, we design several specifical modules and techniques: 1) A…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zewang Zhang , Yibin Zheng , Xinhui Li , Li Lu

We propose a unified model for three inter-related tasks: 1) to \textit{separate} individual sound sources from a mixed music audio, 2) to \textit{transcribe} each sound source to MIDI notes, and 3) to\textit{ synthesize} new pieces based…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Liwei Lin , Qiuqiang Kong , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia

Automated singing assessment is crucial for education and entertainment. However, existing systems face two fundamental limitations: reliance on reference tracks, which stifles creative expression, and the simplification of complex…

Generating speech across different accents while preserving speaker identity is crucial for various real-world applications. However, accurately and independently modeling both speaker and accent characteristics in text-to-speech (TTS)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Xuehao Zhou , Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Zhizheng Wu , Haizhou Li

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

The proliferation of highly realistic singing voice deepfakes presents a significant challenge to protecting artist likeness and content authenticity. Automatic singer identification in vocal deepfakes is a promising avenue for artists and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Davide Salvi , Hendrik Vincent Koops , Elio Quinton

Suffering from limited singing voice corpus, existing singing voice synthesis (SVS) methods that build encoder-decoder neural networks to directly generate spectrogram could lead to out-of-tune issues during the inference phase. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Shujun Liu , Hai Zhu , Kun Wang , Huajun Wang