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Accent transfer aims to transfer an accent from a source speaker to synthetic speech in the target speaker's voice. The main challenge is how to effectively disentangle speaker timbre and accent which are entangled in speech. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Linhan Ma , Yongmao Zhang , Xinfa Zhu , Yi Lei , Ziqian Ning , Pengcheng Zhu , Lei Xie

Previous research has shown that established techniques for spoken voice conversion (VC) do not perform as well when applied to singing voice conversion (SVC). We propose an alternative loss component in a loss function that is otherwise…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Brendan O'Connor , Simon Dixon

Deep generative models have achieved significant progress in speech synthesis to date, while high-fidelity singing voice synthesis is still an open problem for its long continuous pronunciation, rich high-frequency parts, and strong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-08 Rongjie Huang , Chenye Cui , Feiyang Chen , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Zhou Zhao , Baoxing Huai , Zhefeng Wang

With the rapid development of neural network architectures and speech processing models, singing voice synthesis with neural networks is becoming the cutting-edge technique of digital music production. In this work, in order to explore how…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Dengfeng Ke , Yuxing Lu , Xudong Liu , Yanyan Xu , Jing Sun , Cheng-Hao Cai

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 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

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

In this paper, we propose MakeSinger, a semi-supervised training method for singing voice synthesis (SVS) via classifier-free diffusion guidance. The challenge in SVS lies in the costly process of gathering aligned sets of text, pitch, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Semin Kim , Myeonghun Jeong , Hyeonseung Lee , Minchan Kim , Byoung Jin Choi , Nam Soo Kim

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…

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

Text-to-speech (TTS) and singing voice synthesis (SVS) aim at generating high-quality speaking and singing voice according to textual input and music scores, respectively. Unifying TTS and SVS into a single system is crucial to the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yi Lei , Shan Yang , Xinsheng Wang , Qicong Xie , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie , Dan Su

This paper describes an end-to-end adversarial singing voice conversion (EA-SVC) approach. It can directly generate arbitrary singing waveform by given phonetic posteriorgram (PPG) representing content, F0 representing pitch, and speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Haohan Guo , Heng Lu , Na Hu , Chunlei Zhang , Shan Yang , Lei Xie , Dan Su , Dong Yu

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

Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) stands at the intersection of computer vision and speech recognition, aiming to interpret spoken content from visual cues. A prominent challenge in VSR is the presence of homophenes-visually similar lip…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Young Jin Ahn , Jungwoo Park , Sangha Park , Jonghyun Choi , Kee-Eung Kim

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

This paper proposes an expressive singing voice synthesis system by introducing explicit vibrato modeling and latent energy representation. Vibrato is essential to the naturalness of synthesized sound, due to the inherent characteristics of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yingjie Song , Wei Song , Wei Zhang , Zhengchen Zhang , Dan Zeng , Zhi Liu , Yang Yu

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

This paper describes the design of NNSVS, an open-source software for neural network-based singing voice synthesis research. NNSVS is inspired by Sinsy, an open-source pioneer in singing voice synthesis research, and provides many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Ryuichi Yamamoto , Reo Yoneyama , Tomoki Toda

Recent advances in singing voice synthesis (SVS) have attracted substantial attention from both academia and industry. With the advent of large language models and novel generative paradigms, producing controllable, high-fidelity singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Changhao Pan , Dongyu Yao , Yu Zhang , Wenxiang Guo , Jingyu Lu , Zhiyuan Zhu , Zhou Zhao

While recent years have witnessed rapid progress in speech synthesis, open-source singing voice synthesis (SVS) systems still face significant barriers to industrial deployment, particularly in terms of robustness and zero-shot…