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Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…

Deep learning based singing voice synthesis (SVS) systems have been demonstrated to flexibly generate singing with better qualities, compared to conventional statistical parametric based methods. However, neural systems are generally…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Shuai Guo , Jiatong Shi , Tao Qian , Shinji Watanabe , Qin Jin

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

Deep learning models are becoming predominant in many fields of machine learning. Text-to-Speech (TTS), the process of synthesizing artificial speech from text, is no exception. To this end, a deep neural network is usually trained using a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Giuseppe Ruggiero , Enrico Zovato , Luigi Di Caro , Vincent Pollet

Controllable human voice generation, particularly for expressive domains like singing, remains a significant challenge. This paper introduces Vevo2, a unified framework for controllable speech and singing voice generation. To tackle issues…

We present SingSong, a system that generates instrumental music to accompany input vocals, potentially offering musicians and non-musicians alike an intuitive new way to create music featuring their own voice. To accomplish this, we build…

With the popularity of deep neural network, speech synthesis task has achieved significant improvements based on the end-to-end encoder-decoder framework in the recent days. More and more applications relying on speech synthesis technology…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Dongyang Dai , Li Chen , Yuping Wang , Mu Wang , Rui Xia , Xuchen Song , Zhiyong Wu , Yuxuan Wang

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

Singing voice conversion aims to transform a source singing voice into that of a target singer while preserving the original lyrics, melody, and various vocal techniques. In this paper, we propose a high-fidelity singing voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yiquan Zhou , Wenyu Wang , Hongwu Ding , Jiacheng Xu , Jihua Zhu , Xin Gao , Shihao Li

The end-to-end speech synthesis model can directly take an utterance as reference audio, and generate speech from the text with prosody and speaker characteristics similar to the reference audio. However, an appropriate acoustic embedding…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Cheng Gong , Longbiao Wang , Zhenhua Ling , Ju Zhang , Jianwu Dang

Lip-to-Speech (Lip2Speech) synthesis, which predicts corresponding speech from talking face images, has witnessed significant progress with various models and training strategies in a series of independent studies. However, existing studies…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zheng-Yan Sheng , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

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

In this paper we propose modifications to the neural network framework, AutoVC for the task of singing technique conversion. This includes utilising a pretrained singing technique encoder which extracts technique information, upon which a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Brendan O'Connor , Simon Dixon , George Fazekas

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

Style transfer for out-of-domain (OOD) singing voice synthesis (SVS) focuses on generating high-quality singing voices with unseen styles (such as timbre, emotion, pronunciation, and articulation skills) derived from reference singing voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Yu Zhang , Rongjie Huang , Ruiqi Li , JinZheng He , Yan Xia , Feiyang Chen , Xinyu Duan , Baoxing Huai , Zhou Zhao

Lipreading is an important technique for facilitating human-computer interaction in noisy environments. Our previously developed self-supervised learning method, AV2vec, which leverages multimodal self-distillation, has demonstrated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Tingzhi Mao , Longjiang Guo , Jin Li , Lichen Zhang

The mapping of text to speech (TTS) is non-deterministic, letters may be pronounced differently based on context, or phonemes can vary depending on various physiological and stylistic factors like gender, age, accent, emotions, etc. Neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Nabarun Goswami , Tatsuya Harada

In singing voice synthesis (SVS), generating singing voices from musical scores faces challenges due to limited data availability. This study proposes a unique strategy to address the data scarcity in SVS. We employ an existing singing…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Jiatong Shi , Yueqian Lin , Xinyi Bai , Keyi Zhang , Yuning Wu , Yuxun Tang , Yifeng Yu , Qin Jin , Shinji Watanabe

Customizing voice and speaking style in a speech synthesis system with intuitive and fine-grained controls is challenging, given that little data with appropriate labels is available. Furthermore, editing an existing human's voice also…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Florian Lux , Pascal Tilli , Sarina Meyer , Ngoc Thang Vu

In recent years, several text-to-speech systems have been proposed to synthesize natural speech in zero-shot, few-shot, and low-resource scenarios. However, these methods typically require training with data from many different speakers.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana , Frank Zalkow , Christian Dittmar , Nicola Pia , Emanuel A. P. Habets