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Singing voice synthesis is a generative task that involves multi-dimensional control of the singing model, including lyrics, pitch, and duration, and includes the timbre of the singer and singing skills such as vibrato. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Recently, denoising diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance among generative models in various domains. However, in the speech domain, the application of diffusion models for synthesizing time-varying audio faces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Ji-Sang Hwang , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

A song is a combination of singing voice and accompaniment. However, existing works focus on singing voice synthesis and music generation independently. Little attention was paid to explore song synthesis. In this work, we propose a novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Zhiqing Hong , Rongjie Huang , Xize Cheng , Yongqi Wang , Ruiqi Li , Fuming You , Zhou Zhao , Zhimeng Zhang

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

An unsupervised text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system learns to generate speech waveforms corresponding to any written sentence in a language by observing: 1) a collection of untranscribed speech waveforms in that language; 2) a collection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Junrui Ni , Liming Wang , Heting Gao , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Most of the previous approaches to lyrics-to-audio alignment used a pre-developed automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that innately suffered from several difficulties to adapt the speech model to individual singers. A significant…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Sungkyun Chang , Kyogu Lee

Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) has witnessed significant advancements with the advent of deep learning techniques. However, a significant challenge in SVS is the scarcity of labeled singing voice data, which limits the effectiveness of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yifeng Yu , Jiatong Shi , Yuning Wu , Yuxun Tang , Shinji Watanabe

In this paper, we propose a singing voice synthesis model, Karaoker-SSL, that is trained only on text and speech data as a typical multi-speaker acoustic model. It is a low-resource pipeline that does not utilize any singing data…

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

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) aims to generate expressive and high-quality vocals from musical scores, requiring precise modeling of pitch, duration, and articulation. While diffusion-based models have achieved remarkable success in image…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kehan Sui , Jinxu Xiang , Fang Jin

Currently, machine learning techniques have seen significant success across various applications. Most of these techniques rely on supervision from human-generated labels or a mixture of noisy and imprecise labels from multiple sources.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yanbo Wang , Wenyu Chen , Shimin Shan

Building a high-quality singing corpus for a person who is not good at singing is non-trivial, thus making it challenging to create a singing voice synthesizer for this person. Learn2Sing is dedicated to synthesizing the singing voice of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Heyang Xue , Xinsheng Wang , Yongmao Zhang , Lei Xie , Pengcheng Zhu , Mengxiao Bi

Unison singing is the name given to an ensemble of singers simultaneously singing the same melody and lyrics. While each individual singer in a unison sings the same principle melody, there are slight timing and pitch deviations between the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Pritish Chandna , Helena Cuesta , Emilia Gómez

This paper presents methods of making using of text supervision to improve the performance of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion. Compared with conventional frame-to-frame voice conversion approaches, the seq2seq acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Yuan Jiang , Li-Juan Liu , Chen Liang , Li-Rong Dai

Lyric-to-melody generation aims to automatically create melodies based on given lyrics, requiring the capture of complex and subtle correlations between them. However, previous works usually suffer from two main challenges: 1) lyric-melody…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Jiaxing Yu , Xinda Wu , Yunfei Xu , Tieyao Zhang , Songruoyao Wu , Le Ma , Kejun Zhang

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) has seen remarkable advancements in recent years. However, compared to speech and general audio data, publicly available singing datasets remain limited. In practice, this data scarcity often leads to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yiwen Zhao , Jiatong Shi , Yuxun Tang , William Chen , Shinji Watanabe

Lack of large-scale note-level labeled data is the major obstacle to singing transcription from polyphonic music. We address the issue by using pseudo labels from vocal pitch estimation models given unlabeled data. The proposed method first…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Sangeun Kum , Jongpil Lee , Keunhyoung Luke Kim , Taehyoung Kim , Juhan Nam

Over the last few years, deep learning has grown in popularity for speaker verification, identification, and diarization. Inarguably, a significant part of this success is due to the demonstrated effectiveness of their speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Yehoshua Dissen , Felix Kreuk , Joseph Keshet

This paper presents Sinsy, a deep neural network (DNN)-based singing voice synthesis (SVS) system. In recent years, DNNs have been utilized in statistical parametric SVS systems, and DNN-based SVS systems have demonstrated better…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Significant strides have been made in creating voice identity representations using speech data. However, the same level of progress has not been achieved for singing voices. To bridge this gap, we suggest a framework for training singer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Bernardo Torres , Stefan Lattner , Gaël Richard