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Melody preservation is crucial in singing voice conversion (SVC). However, in many scenarios, audio is often accompanied with background music (BGM), which can cause audio distortion and interfere with the extraction of melody and other key…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Wei Chen , Binzhu Sha , Jing Yang , Zhuo Wang , Fan Fan , Zhiyong Wu

We explore two approaches to creatively altering vocal timbre using Differentiable Digital Signal Processing (DDSP). The first approach is inspired by classic cross-synthesis techniques. A pretrained DDSP decoder predicts a filter for a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-21 David Südholt , Cumhur Erkut

In real-world singing voice conversion (SVC) applications, environmental noise and the demand for expressive output pose significant challenges. Conventional methods, however, are typically designed without accounting for real deployment…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Junjie Zheng , Gongyu Chen , Chaofan Ding , Zihao Chen

There are many use cases in singing synthesis where creating voices from small amounts of data is desirable. In text-to-speech there have been several promising results that apply voice cloning techniques to modern deep learning based…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Ryunosuke Daido

We present a deep neural network based singing voice synthesizer, inspired by the Deep Convolutions Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) architecture and optimized using the Wasserstein-GAN algorithm. We use vocoder parameters for…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Pritish Chandna , Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Emilia Gomez

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

Traditional studies on voice conversion (VC) have made progress with parallel training data and known speakers. Good voice conversion quality is obtained by exploring better alignment modules or expressive mapping functions. In this study,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Jiachen Lian , Chunlei Zhang , Dong Yu

The aim of latent variable disentanglement is to infer the multiple informative latent representations that lie behind a data generation process and is a key factor in controllable data generation. In this paper, we propose a deep neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Yiming Wu

We present a physics-informed voiced backend renderer for singing-voice synthesis. Given synthetic single-channel audio and a fund-amental--frequency trajectory, we train a time-domain Webster model as a physics-informed neural network to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minhui Lu , Joshua D. Reiss

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

The present paper describes 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 2020-04-23 Kazuhiro Nakamura , Shinji Takaki , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Disentanglement is the task of learning representations that identify and separate factors that explain the variation observed in data. Disentangled representations are useful to increase the generalizability, explainability, and fairness…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Michael Kuhlmann , Adrian Meise , Fritz Seebauer , Petra Wagner , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

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

In the stereo-to-multichannel upmixing problem for music, one of the main tasks is to set the directionality of the instrument sources in the multichannel rendering results. In this paper, we propose a modified variational autoencoder model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Haici Yang , Sanna Wager , Spencer Russell , Mike Luo , Minje Kim , Wontak Kim

Singer voice classification is a meaningful task in the digital era. With a huge number of songs today, identifying a singer is very helpful for music information retrieval, music properties indexing, and so on. In this paper, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Toan Pham Van , Ngoc N. Tran , Ta Minh Thanh

In this work we present a method for unsupervised learning of audio representations, focused on the task of singing voice separation. We build upon a previously proposed method for learning representations of time-domain music signals with…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Stylianos Ioannis Mimilakis , Konstantinos Drossos , Gerald Schuller

In this paper, we propose VISinger, a complete end-to-end high-quality singing voice synthesis (SVS) system that directly generates audio waveform from lyrics and musical score. Our approach is inspired by VITS, which adopts VAE-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-25 Yongmao Zhang , Jian Cong , Heyang Xue , Lei Xie , Pengcheng Zhu , Mengxiao Bi

Recent progress in deep generative models has improved the quality of voice conversion in the speech domain. However, high-quality singing voice conversion (SVC) of unseen singers remains challenging due to the wider variety of musical…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Naoya Takahashi , Mayank Kumar Singh , Yuki Mitsufuji

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) has emerged as a significant subfield of Voice Conversion (VC), enabling the transformation of one singer's voice into another while preserving musical elements such as melody, rhythm, and timbre. Traditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yubo Huang , Xin Lai , Muyang Ye , Anran Zhu , Zixi Wang , Jingzehua Xu , Shuai Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhou , Weijie Niu

One-shot voice conversion(VC) aims to change the timbre of any source speech to match that of the target speaker with only one speech sample. Existing style transfer-based VC methods relied on speech representation disentanglement and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Wenhan Yao , Zedong Xing , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , Yongqiang He , Weiping Wen