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Recent progress in diffusion-based Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) demonstrates strong expressiveness but remains limited by data scarcity and model scalability. We introduce a two-stage pipeline: a compact seed set of human-sung recordings…

We present a method for converting the voices between a set of speakers. Our method is based on training multiple autoencoder paths, where there is a single speaker-independent encoder and multiple speaker-dependent decoders. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Orhan Ocal , Oguz H. Elibol , Gokce Keskin , Cory Stephenson , Anil Thomas , Kannan Ramchandran

We describe a neural network-based system for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis that is able to generate speech audio in the voice of many different speakers, including those unseen during training. Our system consists of three independently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Ye Jia , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Quan Wang , Jonathan Shen , Fei Ren , Zhifeng Chen , Patrick Nguyen , Ruoming Pang , Ignacio Lopez Moreno , Yonghui Wu

Generative models have thrived in computer vision, enabling unprecedented image processes. Yet the results in audio remain less advanced. Our project targets real-time sound synthesis from a reduced set of high-level parameters, including…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Adrien Bitton , Philippe Esling , Antoine Caillon , Martin Fouilleul

Zero-shot singing voice synthesis (SVS) with style transfer and style control aims to generate high-quality singing voices with unseen timbres and styles (including singing method, emotion, rhythm, technique, and pronunciation) from audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Yu Zhang , Ziyue Jiang , Ruiqi Li , Changhao Pan , Jinzheng He , Rongjie Huang , Chuxin Wang , Zhou Zhao

Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) remains constrained in practical deployment due to its strong dependence on accurate phoneme-level alignment and manually annotated melody contours, requirements that are resource-intensive and hinder…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Junjie Zheng , Chunbo Hao , Guobin Ma , Xiaoyu Zhang , Gongyu Chen , Chaofan Ding , Zihao Chen , Lei Xie

Existing singing voice synthesis (SVS) models largely rely on fine-grained, phoneme-level durations, which limits their practical application. These methods overlook the complementary role of visual information in duration prediction.To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Ke Gu , Zhicong Wu , Peng Bai , Sitong Qiao , Zhiqi Jiang , Junchen Lu , Xiaodong Shi , Xinyuan Qian

Text-to-speech (TTS) and singing voice synthesis (SVS) aim at generating high-quality speaking and singing voice according to textual input and music scores, respectively. Unifying TTS and SVS into a single system is crucial to the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yi Lei , Shan Yang , Xinsheng Wang , Qicong Xie , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie , Dan Su

Separation of multiple singing voices into each voice is a rarely studied area in music source separation research. The absence of a benchmark dataset has hindered its progress. In this paper, we present an evaluation dataset and provide…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Chang-Bin Jeon , Hyeongi Moon , Keunwoo Choi , Ben Sangbae Chon , Kyogu Lee

This paper describes the design of NNSVS, an open-source software for neural network-based singing voice synthesis research. NNSVS is inspired by Sinsy, an open-source pioneer in singing voice synthesis research, and provides many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Ryuichi Yamamoto , Reo Yoneyama , Tomoki Toda

We investigate a novel cross-lingual multi-speaker text-to-speech synthesis approach for generating high-quality native or accented speech for native/foreign seen/unseen speakers in English and Mandarin. The system consists of three…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Zhaoyu Liu , Brian Mak

In realistic environments, speech is usually interfered by various noise and reverberation, which dramatically degrades the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To alleviate this issue, the commonest way is to use a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Bin Liu , Shuai Nie , Yaping Zhang , Dengfeng Ke , Shan Liang , Wenju Liu1

Several of the latest GAN-based vocoders show remarkable achievements, outperforming autoregressive and flow-based competitors in both qualitative and quantitative measures while synthesizing orders of magnitude faster. In this work, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jaeseong You , Dalhyun Kim , Gyuhyeon Nam , Geumbyeol Hwang , Gyeongsu Chae

This paper proposes a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model with a musical note position-aware attention mechanism for singing voice synthesis (SVS). A seq2seq modeling approach that can simultaneously perform acoustic and temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

A text-to-speech (TTS) model trained to reconstruct speech given text tends towards predictions that are close to the average characteristics of a dataset, failing to model the variations that make human speech sound natural. This problem…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 John Janiczek , Dading Chong , Dongyang Dai , Arlo Faria , Chao Wang , Tao Wang , Yuzong Liu

Voice conversion (VC) refers to transforming the speaker characteristics of an utterance without altering its linguistic contents. Many works on voice conversion require to have parallel training data that is highly expensive to acquire.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Shindong Lee , BongGu Ko , Keonnyeong Lee , In-Chul Yoo , Dongsuk Yook

Audio signals are sampled at high temporal resolutions, and learning to synthesize audio requires capturing structure across a range of timescales. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have seen wide success at generating images that are…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Chris Donahue , Julian McAuley , Miller Puckette

Generative adversarial network (GAN) models can synthesize highquality audio signals while ensuring fast sample generation. However, they are difficult to train and are prone to several issues including mode collapse and divergence. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Teysir Baoueb , Haocheng Liu , Mathieu Fontaine , Jonathan Le Roux , Gael Richard

Since the introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in speech synthesis, remarkable achievements have been attained. In a thorough exploration of vocoders, it has been discovered that audio waveforms can be generated at speeds…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Yubing Cao , Yongming Li , Liejun Wang , Yinfeng Yu

The performance of speech processing models trained on clean speech drops significantly in noisy conditions. Training with noisy datasets alleviates the problem, but procuring such datasets is not always feasible. Noisy speech simulation…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Leander Melroy Maben , Zixun Guo , Chen Chen , Utkarsh Chudiwal , Chng Eng Siong