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In this paper, we present a machine-learning approach to pitch correction for voice in a karaoke setting, where the vocals and accompaniment are on separate tracks and time-aligned. The network takes as input the time-frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Sanna Wager , Lijiang Guo , Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim

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

We propose an algorithm that is capable of synthesizing high quality target speaker's singing voice given only their normal speech samples. The proposed algorithm first integrate speech and singing synthesis into a unified framework, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Liqiang Zhang , Chengzhu Yu , Heng Lu , Chao Weng , Yusong Wu , Xiang Xie , Zijin Li , Dong Yu

Automatic transcription of monophonic/polyphonic music is a challenging task due to the lack of availability of large amounts of transcribed data. In this paper, we propose a data augmentation method that converts natural speech to singing…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Sakya Basak , Shrutina Agarwal , Sriram Ganapathy , Naoya Takahashi

Voice Conversion(VC) refers to changing the timbre of a speech while retaining the discourse content. Recently, many works have focused on disentangle-based learning techniques to separate the timbre and the linguistic content information…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

The lack of a publicly-available large-scale and diverse dataset has long been a significant bottleneck for singing voice applications like Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) and Singing Voice Conversion (SVC). To tackle this problem, we present…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yicheng Gu , Chaoren Wang , Junan Zhang , Xueyao Zhang , Zihao Fang , Haorui He , Zhizheng Wu

Currently, zero-shot voice conversion systems are capable of synthesizing the voice of unseen speakers. However, most existing approaches struggle to accurately replicate the speaking style of the source speaker or mimic the distinctive…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Kaidi Wang , Wenhao Guan , Ziyue Jiang , Hukai Huang , Peijie Chen , Weijie Wu , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

One-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert speech from any source speaker to an arbitrary target speaker with only a few seconds of reference speech from the target speaker. This relies heavily on disentangling the speaker's identity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

Precise control over speech characteristics, such as pitch, duration, and speech rate, remains a significant challenge in the field of voice conversion. The ability to manipulate parameters like pitch and syllable rate is an important…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mathilde Abrassart , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

Here we present a novel approach to conditioning the SampleRNN generative model for voice conversion (VC). Conventional methods for VC modify the perceived speaker identity by converting between source and target acoustic features. Our…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Cong Zhou , Michael Horgan , Vivek Kumar , Cristina Vasco , Dan Darcy

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer the source speaker timbre to arbitrary unseen target speaker timbre, while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Although the voice of generated speech can be controlled by providing the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Junjie Li , Yiwei Guo , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Direct speech-to-text translation systems encounter an important drawback in data scarcity. A common solution consists on pretraining the encoder on automatic speech recognition, hence losing efficiency in the training process. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Belen Alastruey , Gerard I. Gállego , Marta R. Costa-jussà

This paper proposes a new task called spatial voice conversion, which aims to convert a target voice while preserving spatial information and non-target signals. Traditional voice conversion methods focus on single-channel waveforms,…

Accent conversion aims to convert the accent of a source speech to a target accent, meanwhile preserving the speaker's identity. This paper introduces a novel non-autoregressive framework for accent conversion that learns accent-agnostic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xi Chen , Jiakun Pei , Liumeng Xue , Mingyang Zhang

Vocal education in the music field is difficult to quantify due to the individual differences in singers' voices and the different quantitative criteria of singing techniques. Deep learning has great potential to be applied in music…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Zhenyi Hou , Xu Zhao , Kejie Ye , Xinyu Sheng , Shanggerile Jiang , Jiajing Xia , Yitao Zhang , Chenxi Ban , Daijun Luo , Jiaxing Chen , Yan Zou , Yuchao Feng , Guangyu Fan , Xin Yuan

Text-based voice editing (TBVE) uses synthetic output from text-to-speech (TTS) systems to replace words in an original recording. Recent work has used neural models to produce edited speech that is similar to the original speech in terms…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Jason Fong , Yun Wang , Prabhav Agrawal , Vimal Manohar , Jilong Wu , Thilo Köhler , Qing He

In this paper, a neural network named Sequence-to-sequence ConvErsion NeTwork (SCENT) is presented for acoustic modeling in voice conversion. At training stage, a SCENT model is estimated by aligning the feature sequences of source and…

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

The objective of deep learning methods based on encoder-decoder architectures for music source separation is to approximate either ideal time-frequency masks or spectral representations of the target music source(s). The spectral…

Background sound is an informative form of art that is helpful in providing a more immersive experience in real-application voice conversion (VC) scenarios. However, prior research about VC, mainly focusing on clean voices, pay rare…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Jixun Yao , Yi Lei , Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Ziqian Ning , Lei Xie , Hai Li , Junhui Liu , Danming Xie

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer timbre from a source speaker to any unseen target speaker while preserving linguistic content. Growing application scenarios demand models with streaming inference capabilities. This has…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Guobin Ma , Jixun Yao , Ziqian Ning , Yuepeng Jiang , Lingxin Xiong , Lei Xie , Pengcheng Zhu