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Deep generative models such as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have recently been applied to style and domain transfer for images, and in the case of VAEs, music. GAN-based models employing several…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Gino Brunner , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer , Sumu Zhao

We present a new model for singing synthesis based on a modified version of the WaveNet architecture. Instead of modeling raw waveform, we model features produced by a parametric vocoder that separates the influence of pitch and timbre.…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada

One of the frontier issues that severely hamper the development of automatic snore sound classification (ASSC) associates to the lack of sufficient supervised training data. To cope with this problem, we propose a novel data augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Zixing Zhang , Jing Han , Kun Qian , Christoph Janott , Yanan Guo , Bjoern Schuller

Non-parallel multi-domain voice conversion (VC) is a technique for learning mappings among multiple domains without relying on parallel data. This is important but challenging owing to the requirement of learning multiple mappings and the…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Nobukatsu Hojo

In this paper, we explore machine translation improvement via Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture. We take inspiration from RelGAN, a model for text generation, and NMT-GAN, an adversarial machine translation model, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jay Ahn , Hari Madhu , Viet Nguyen

Separating the individual elements in a musical mixture is an essential process for music analysis and practice. While this is generally addressed using neural networks optimized to mask or transform the time-frequency representation of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Previous approaches in singer identification have used one of monophonic vocal tracks or mixed tracks containing multiple instruments, leaving a semantic gap between these two domains of audio. In this paper, we present a system to learn a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Kyungyun Lee , Juhan Nam

Typically, singing voice conversion (SVC) depends on an embedding vector, extracted from either a speaker lookup table (LUT) or a speaker recognition network (SRN), to model speaker identity. However, singing contains more expressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Xu Li , Shansong Liu , Ying Shan

In this paper, we propose MakeSinger, a semi-supervised training method for singing voice synthesis (SVS) via classifier-free diffusion guidance. The challenge in SVS lies in the costly process of gathering aligned sets of text, pitch, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Semin Kim , Myeonghun Jeong , Hyeonseung Lee , Minchan Kim , Byoung Jin Choi , Nam Soo Kim

SCONE-GAN presents an end-to-end image translation, which is shown to be effective for learning to generate realistic and diverse scenery images. Most current image-to-image translation approaches are devised as two mappings: a translation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Iman Abbasnejad , Fabio Zambetta , Flora Salim , Timothy Wiley , Jeffrey Chan , Russell Gallagher , Ehsan Abbasnejad

We propose a novel unsupervised singing voice detection method which use single-channel Blind Audio Source Separation (BASS) algorithm as a preliminary step. To reach this goal, we investigate three promising BASS approaches which operate…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Dominique Fourer , Geoffroy Peeters

Despite the rapid development of adversarial machine learning, most adversarial attack and defense researches mainly focus on the perturbation-based adversarial examples, which is constrained by the input images. In comparison with existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Xiaosen Wang , Kun He , Chuanbiao Song , Liwei Wang , John E. Hopcroft

Singing voice conversion (SVC) automates song covers by converting a source singing voice from a source singer into a new singing voice with the same lyrics and melody as the source, but sounds like being covered by the target singer of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Guangke Chen , Yedi Zhang , Fu Song , Ting Wang , Xiaoning Du , Yang Liu

Automatic Singing Assessment and Singing Information Processing have evolved over the past three decades to support singing pedagogy, performance analysis, and vocal training. While the first approach objectively evaluates a singer's…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Arthur N. dos Santos , Bruno S. Masiero

This paper presents an advanced end-to-end singing voice synthesis (SVS) system based on the source-filter mechanism that directly translates lyrical and melodic cues into expressive and high-fidelity human-like singing. Similarly to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Jianwei Cui , Yu Gu , Chao Weng , Jie Zhang , Liping Chen , Lirong Dai

This paper proposes singing voice synthesis (SVS) based on frame-level sequence-to-sequence models considering vocal timing deviation. In SVS, it is essential to synchronize the timing of singing with temporal structures represented by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Miku Nishihara , Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Voice conversion (VC) transforms an utterance to sound like another person without changing the linguistic content. A recently proposed generative adversarial network-based VC method, StarGANv2-VC is very successful in generating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Arnab Das , Suhita Ghosh , Tim Polzehl , Sebastian Stober

Singing voice synthesis is a generative task that involves multi-dimensional control of the singing model, including lyrics, pitch, and duration, and includes the timbre of the singer and singing skills such as vibrato. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) aims to generate natural and expressive singing waveforms from symbolic musical scores. In cVAE-based SVS, however, a mismatch arises because the decoder is trained with latent representations inferred from…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Minhyeok Yun , Yong-Hoon Choi

As a combination of visual and audio signals, video is inherently multi-modal. However, existing video generation methods are primarily intended for the synthesis of visual frames, whereas audio signals in realistic videos are disregarded.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jiawei Liu , Weining Wang , Sihan Chen , Xinxin Zhu , Jing Liu