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Modifying the pitch and timing of an audio signal are fundamental audio editing operations with applications in speech manipulation, audio-visual synchronization, and singing voice editing and synthesis. Thus far, methods for pitch-shifting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Max Morrison , Zeyu Jin , Nicholas J. Bryan , Juan-Pablo Caceres , Bryan Pardo

Most people who have tried to learn a foreign language would have experienced difficulties understanding or speaking with a native speaker's accent. For native speakers, understanding or speaking a new accent is likewise a difficult task.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Mumin Jin , Prashant Serai , Jilong Wu , Andros Tjandra , Vimal Manohar , Qing He

Voice conversion (VC) consists of digitally altering the voice of an individual to manipulate part of its content, primarily its identity, while maintaining the rest unchanged. Research in neural VC has accomplished considerable…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Laurent Benaroya , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

In this paper, we address the problem of pitch estimation using Self Supervised Learning (SSL). The SSL paradigm we use is equivariance to pitch transposition, which enables our model to accurately perform pitch estimation on monophonic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Alain Riou , Stefan Lattner , Gaëtan Hadjeres , Geoffroy Peeters

Speech-to-singing voice conversion (STS) task always suffers from data scarcity, because it requires paired speech and singing data. Compounding this issue are the challenges of content-pitch alignment and the suboptimal quality of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Ruiqi Li , Rongjie Huang , Yongqi Wang , Zhiqing Hong , Zhou Zhao

Singing voice synthesis has been paid rising attention with the rapid development of speech synthesis area. In general, a studio-level singing corpus is usually necessary to produce a natural singing voice from lyrics and music-related…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Heyang Xue , Shan Yang , Yi Lei , Lei Xie , Xiulin Li

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

Voice conversion (VC) systems are widely used for several applications, from speaker anonymisation to personalised speech synthesis. Supervised approaches learn a mapping between different speakers using parallel data, which is expensive to…

This paper introduces the T23 team's system submitted to the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2023. Following the recognition-synthesis framework, our singing conversion model is based on VITS, incorporating four key modules: a prior…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Ziqian Ning , Yuepeng Jiang , Zhichao Wang , Bin Zhang , Lei Xie

Significant strides have been made in creating voice identity representations using speech data. However, the same level of progress has not been achieved for singing voices. To bridge this gap, we suggest a framework for training singer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Bernardo Torres , Stefan Lattner , Gaël Richard

This paper presents an adversarial learning method for recognition-synthesis based non-parallel voice conversion. A recognizer is used to transform acoustic features into linguistic representations while a synthesizer recovers output…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

In this work we introduce a semi-supervised approach to the voice conversion problem, in which speech from a source speaker is converted into speech of a target speaker. The proposed method makes use of both parallel and non-parallel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-02 Cory Stephenson , Gokce Keskin , Anil Thomas , Oguz H. Elibol

Voice conversion (VC) is a task that transforms the source speaker's timbre, accent, and tones in audio into another one's while preserving the linguistic content. It is still a challenging work, especially in a one-shot setting.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Da-Yi Wu , Yen-Hao Chen , Hung-Yi Lee

Recently, cycle-consistent adversarial network (Cycle-GAN) has been successfully applied to voice conversion to a different speaker without parallel data, although in those approaches an individual model is needed for each target speaker.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Ju-chieh Chou , Cheng-chieh Yeh , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

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

Speaker identity is one of the important characteristics of human speech. In voice conversion, we change the speaker identity from one to another, while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Voice conversion involves multiple speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Berrak Sisman , Junichi Yamagishi , Simon King , Haizhou Li

Can we make a famous rap singer like Eminem sing whatever our favorite song? Singing style transfer attempts to make this possible, by replacing the vocal of a song from the source singer to the target singer. This paper presents a method…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Cheng-Wei Wu , Jen-Yu Liu , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Jyh-Shing R. Jang

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

The virtual world is being established in which digital humans are created indistinguishable from real humans. Producing their audio-related capabilities is crucial since voice conveys extensive personal characteristics. We aim to create a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Wei Xue , Yiwen Wang , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

The goal of voice conversion is to transform the speech of a source speaker to sound like that of a reference speaker while preserving the original content. A key challenge is to extract disentangled linguistic content from the source and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jaehun Kim , Ji-Hoon Kim , Yeunju Choi , Tan Dat Nguyen , Seongkyu Mun , Joon Son Chung