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We present a fast and high-fidelity method for music generation, based on specified f0 and loudness, such that the synthesized audio mimics the timbre and articulation of a target instrument. The generation process consists of learned…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Michael Michelashvili , Lior Wolf

We propose a transfer deep learning (TDL) framework that can transfer the knowledge obtained from a single-modal neural network to a network with a different modality. Specifically, we show that we can leverage speech data to fine-tune the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Seungwhan Moon , Suyoun Kim , Haohan Wang

With the advent of modern AI architectures, a shift has happened towards end-to-end architectures. This pivot has led to neural architectures being trained without domain-specific biases/knowledge, optimized according to the task. We in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Prateek Verma

Reverb plays a critical role in music production, where it provides listeners with spatial realization, timbre, and texture of the music. Yet, it is challenging to reproduce the musical reverb of a reference music track even by skilled…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Junghyun Koo , Seungryeol Paik , Kyogu Lee

Music is a mysterious language that conveys feeling and thoughts via different tones and timbre. For better understanding of timbre in music, we chose music data of 6 representative instruments, analysed their timbre features and classified…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Zishuo Zhao , Haoyun Wang

In audio processing applications, the generation of expressive sounds based on high-level representations demonstrates a high demand. These representations can be used to manipulate the timbre and influence the synthesis of creative…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Anastasia Natsiou , Luca Longo , Sean O'Leary

To successfully apply trained neural network models to new domains, powerful transfer learning solutions are essential. We propose to introduce a novel cross-domain latent modulation mechanism to a variational autoencoder framework so as to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Jinyong Hou , Jeremiah D. Deng , Stephen Cranefield , Xuejie Din

Training neural networks for source separation involves presenting a mixture recording at the input of the network and updating network parameters in order to produce an output that resembles the clean source. Consequently, supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shrikant Venkataramani , Efthymios Tzinis , Paris Smaragdis

Electronic synthesizer sounds are controlled by parameter settings that yield complex timbral characteristics and ADSR envelopes, making synthesizer-style audio transfer particularly challenging. Recent approaches to timbre transfer often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Jeng-Yue Liu , Ting-Chao Hsu , Yen-Tung Yeh , Li Su , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Expressive zero-shot voice conversion (VC) is a critical and challenging task that aims to transform the source timbre into an arbitrary unseen speaker while preserving the original content and expressive qualities. Despite recent progress…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yuguang Yang , Yu Pan , Jixun Yao , Xiang Zhang , Jianhao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Xie , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

We present a framework that can impose the audio effects and production style from one recording to another by example with the goal of simplifying the audio production process. We train a deep neural network to analyze an input recording…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Christian J. Steinmetz , Nicholas J. Bryan , Joshua D. Reiss

Voice conversion (VC) transforms source speech into a target voice by preserving the content. However, timbre information from the source speaker is inherently embedded in the content representations, causing significant timbre leakage and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Na Li , Chuke Wang , Yu Gu , Zhifeng Li

As a foundational technology for intelligent human-computer interaction, voice conversion (VC) seeks to transform speech from any source timbre into any target timbre. Traditional voice conversion methods based on Generative Adversarial…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wenhan Yao , Fen Xiao , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , YongQiang He , Weiping Wen

Adversarial training is a promising strategy for enhancing model robustness against adversarial attacks. However, its impact on generalization under substantial data distribution shifts in audio classification remains largely unexplored. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 René Heinrich , Lukas Rauch , Bernhard Sick , Christoph Scholz

The recent success of raw audio waveform synthesis models like WaveNet motivates a new approach for music synthesis, in which the entire process --- creating audio samples from a score and instrument information --- is modeled using…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Jong Wook Kim , Rachel Bittner , Aparna Kumar , Juan Pablo Bello

Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion remains an interesting but challenging speech processing task. Recently, AutoVC, a conditional autoencoder based method, achieved excellent conversion results by disentangling the speaker identity…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Zhen Zeng , Edward Xiao , Jing Xiao

Voice conversion methods have advanced rapidly over the last decade. Studies have shown that speaker characteristics are captured by spectral feature as well as various prosodic features. Most existing conversion methods focus on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Hy Quy Nguyen , Siu Wa Lee , Xiaohai Tian , Minghui Dong , Eng Siong Chng

One-shot voice conversion (VC) with only a single target speaker's speech for reference has become a hot research topic. Existing works generally disentangle timbre, while information about pitch, rhythm and content is still mixed together.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 SiCheng Yang , Methawee Tantrawenith , Haolin Zhuang , Zhiyong Wu , Aolan Sun , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Huaizhen Tang , Xintao Zhao , Jie Wang , Helen Meng

In this work, we propose a deep beamforming framework for speech enhancement in dynamic acoustic environments. The framework learns time-varying beamformer weights from noisy multichannel signals via a deep neural network, guided by a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Ilai Zaidel , Sharon Gannot

We propose a flexible framework that deals with both singer conversion and singers vocal technique conversion. The proposed model is trained on non-parallel corpora, accommodates many-to-many conversion, and leverages recent advances of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Yin-Jyun Luo , Chin-Chen Hsu , Kat Agres , Dorien Herremans