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Singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to convert the voice of one singer to that of other singers while keeping the singing content and melody. On top of recent voice conversion works, we propose a novel model to steadily convert songs while…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Zhonghao Li , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Yuan Wan , Ling Xu , Chen Shen , Zejun Ma

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

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

Separating a song into vocal and accompaniment components is an active research topic, and recent years witnessed an increased performance from supervised training using deep learning techniques. We propose to apply the visual information…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Bochen Li , Yuxuan Wang , Zhiyao Duan

Automatic singing voice understanding tasks, such as singer identification, singing voice transcription, and singing technique classification, benefit from data-driven approaches that utilize deep learning techniques. These approaches work…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuya Yamamoto

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) aims to produce high-fidelity singing audio from music scores, requiring a detailed understanding of notes, pitch, and duration, unlike text-to-speech tasks. Although diffusion models have shown exceptional…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Kehan Sui , Jinxu Xiang , Fang Jin

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) has advanced significantly, enabling models to generate vocals with accurate pitch and consistent style. As these capabilities improve, the need for reliable evaluation and optimization becomes increasingly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xueyan Li , Yuxin Wang , Mengjie Jiang , Qingzi Zhu , Jiang Zhang , Zoey Kim , Yazhe Niu

Recently, convolution-augmented transformer (Conformer) has achieved promising performance in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and time-domain speech enhancement (SE), as it can capture both local and global dependencies in the speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ruizhe Cao , Sherif Abdulatif , Bin Yang

Automatic lyrics to polyphonic audio alignment is a challenging task not only because the vocals are corrupted by background music, but also there is a lack of annotated polyphonic corpus for effective acoustic modeling. In this work, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Chitralekha Gupta , Emre Yılmaz , Haizhou Li

Machine learning based singing voice models require large datasets and lengthy training times. In this work we present a lightweight architecture, based on the Differentiable Digital Signal Processing (DDSP) library, that is able to output…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Juan Alonso , Cumhur Erkut

Improving speech system performance in noisy environments remains a challenging task, and speech enhancement (SE) is one of the effective techniques to solve the problem. Motivated by the promising results of generative adversarial networks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Daniel Michelsanti , Zheng-Hua Tan

Generative models for singing voice have been mostly concerned with the task of ``singing voice synthesis,'' i.e., to produce singing voice waveforms given musical scores and text lyrics. In this work, we explore a novel yet challenging…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Jen-Yu Liu , Yu-Hua Chen , Yin-Cheng Yeh , Yi-Hsuan Yang

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 new framework to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in resource-scarce environments using a generative adversarial network (GAN) operating on acoustic input features. The GAN is used to enhance the features of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Walter Heymans , Marelie H. Davel , Charl van Heerden

This paper presents a method of using autoregressive neural networks for the acoustic modeling of singing voice synthesis (SVS). Singing voice differs from speech and it contains more local dynamic movements of acoustic features, e.g.,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Yuan-Hao Yi , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

We present a methodology to train our multi-speaker emotional text-to-speech synthesizer that can express speech for 10 speakers' 7 different emotions. All silences from audio samples are removed prior to learning. This results in fast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Sungjae Cho , Soo-Young Lee

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are of vital importance nowadays in commonplace tasks such as speech-to-text processing and language translation. This created the need for an ASR system that can operate in realistic crowded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Sherif Abdulatif , Karim Armanious , Karim Guirguis , Jayasankar T. Sajeev , Bin Yang

Singing voice synthesis (SVS), as a specific task for generating the vocal singing voice from a music score, has drawn much attention in recent years. SVS faces the challenge that the singing has various pronunciation flexibility…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Yuning Wu , Jiatong Shi , Tao Qian , Dongji Gao , Qin Jin

Voice conversion is to generate a new speech with the source content and a target voice style. In this paper, we focus on one general setting, i.e., non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion, which is close to the real-world scenario. As…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jian Ma , Zhedong Zheng , Hao Fei , Feng Zheng , Tat-seng Chua , Yi Yang

We investigate the effectiveness of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for speech enhancement, in the context of improving noise robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Prior work demonstrates that GANs can effectively…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Chris Donahue , Bo Li , Rohit Prabhavalkar