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Lyrics alignment in long music recordings can be memory exhaustive when performed in a single pass. In this study, we present a novel method that performs audio-to-lyrics alignment with a low memory consumption footprint regardless of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Emir Demirel , Sven Ahlbäck , Simon Dixon

This paper presents an innovative approach to enhance control over audio generation by emphasizing the alignment between audio and text representations during model training. In the context of language model-based audio generation, the…

Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Fully-supervised models for source separation are trained on parallel mixture-source data and are currently state-of-the-art. However, such parallel data is often difficult to obtain, and it is cumbersome to adapt trained models to mixtures…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Ge Zhu , Jordan Darefsky , Fei Jiang , Anton Selitskiy , Zhiyao Duan

Various applications of voice synthesis have been developed independently despite the fact that they generate "voice" as output in common. In addition, the majority of voice synthesis models currently rely on annotated audio data, but it is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Rongjie Huang , Chunlei Zhang , Yongqi Wang , Dongchao Yang , Luping Liu , Zhenhui Ye , Ziyue Jiang , Chao Weng , Zhou Zhao , Dong Yu

Audiovisual synchronisation is the task of determining the time offset between speech audio and a video recording of the articulators. In child speech therapy, audio and ultrasound videos of the tongue are captured using instruments which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Aciel Eshky , Manuel Sam Ribeiro , Korin Richmond , Steve Renals

The virtual world is being established in which digital humans are created indistinguishable from real humans. Producing their audio-related capabilities is crucial since voice conveys extensive personal characteristics. We aim to create a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Wei Xue , Yiwen Wang , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

A vocoder is a conditional audio generation model that converts acoustic features such as mel-spectrograms into waveforms. Taking inspiration from Differentiable Digital Signal Processing (DDSP), we propose a new vocoder named SawSing for…

This paper proposes a controllable singing voice synthesis system capable of generating expressive singing voice with two novel methodologies. First, a local style token module, which predicts frame-level style tokens from an input pitch…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Juheon Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Kyogu Lee

We introduce the first unsupervised speech synthesis system based on a simple, yet effective recipe. The framework leverages recent work in unsupervised speech recognition as well as existing neural-based speech synthesis. Using only…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Alexander H. Liu , Cheng-I Jeff Lai , Wei-Ning Hsu , Michael Auli , Alexei Baevski , James Glass

Most previous work in music emotion recognition assumes a single or a few song-level labels for the whole song. While it is known that different emotions can vary in intensity within a song, annotated data for this setup is scarce and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yingjin Song , Daniel Beck

Automatic melody generation for pop music has been a long-time aspiration for both AI researchers and musicians. However, learning to generate euphonious melody has turned out to be highly challenging due to a number of factors.…

The current trend in automatic speech recognition is to leverage large amounts of labeled data to train supervised neural network models. Unfortunately, obtaining data for a wide range of domains to train robust models can be costly.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Wei-Ning Hsu , Hao Tang , James Glass

We propose Serenade, a novel framework for the singing style conversion (SSC) task. Although singer identity conversion has made great strides in the previous years, converting the singing style of a singer has been an unexplored research…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lester Phillip Violeta , Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Toda

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

Recent research has shown that word embedding spaces learned from text corpora of different languages can be aligned without any parallel data supervision. Inspired by the success in unsupervised cross-lingual word embeddings, in this paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Yu-An Chung , Wei-Hung Weng , Schrasing Tong , James Glass

Voice conversion aims to transform source speech into a different target voice. However, typical voice conversion systems do not account for rhythm, which is an important factor in the perception of speaker identity. To bridge this gap, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Benjamin van Niekerk , Marc-André Carbonneau , Herman Kamper

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) aims to generate natural and expressive singing waveforms from symbolic musical scores. In cVAE-based SVS, however, a mismatch arises because the decoder is trained with latent representations inferred from…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Minhyeok Yun , Yong-Hoon Choi

Text-to-speech (TTS) methods have shown promising results in voice cloning, but they require a large number of labeled text-speech pairs. Minimally-supervised speech synthesis decouples TTS by combining two types of discrete speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Yixin Tian , Yi Zhao , Ying Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

The state of the art in music source separation employs neural networks trained in a supervised fashion on multi-track databases to estimate the sources from a given mixture. With only few datasets available, often extensive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Daniel Stoller , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon