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Zero-shot voice conversion is a technique that alters the speaker identity of an input speech to match a target speaker using only a single reference utterance, without requiring additional training. Recent approaches extensively utilize…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Youngjun Sim , Jinsung Yoon , Wooyeol Jeong , Young-Joo Suh

Previous approaches in singer identification have used one of monophonic vocal tracks or mixed tracks containing multiple instruments, leaving a semantic gap between these two domains of audio. In this paper, we present a system to learn a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Kyungyun Lee , Juhan Nam

In this work we introduce a semi-supervised approach to the voice conversion problem, in which speech from a source speaker is converted into speech of a target speaker. The proposed method makes use of both parallel and non-parallel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-02 Cory Stephenson , Gokce Keskin , Anil Thomas , Oguz H. Elibol

We present a method for converting the voices between a set of speakers. Our method is based on training multiple autoencoder paths, where there is a single speaker-independent encoder and multiple speaker-dependent decoders. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Orhan Ocal , Oguz H. Elibol , Gokce Keskin , Cory Stephenson , Anil Thomas , Kannan Ramchandran

Transfer learning between different language pairs has shown its effectiveness for Neural Machine Translation (NMT) in low-resource scenario. However, existing transfer methods involving a common target language are far from success in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Baijun Ji , Zhirui Zhang , Xiangyu Duan , Min Zhang , Boxing Chen , Weihua Luo

Multi-speaker singing voice synthesis is to generate the singing voice sung by different speakers. To generalize to new speakers, previous zero-shot singing adaptation methods obtain the timbre of the target speaker with a fixed-size…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Shoutong Wang , Jinglin Liu , Yi Ren , Zhen Wang , Changliang Xu , Zhou Zhao

Expressive voice conversion aims to transfer both speaker identity and expressive attributes from a target speech to a given source speech. In this work, we improve over a self-supervised, non-autoregressive framework with a conditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Seymanur Akti , Tuan Nam Nguyen , Alexander Waibel

Separating a song into vocal and accompaniment components is an active research topic, and recent years witnessed an increased performance from supervised training using deep learning techniques. We propose to apply the visual information…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Bochen Li , Yuxuan Wang , Zhiyao Duan

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert the original speaker's timbre to any target speaker while keeping the linguistic content. Current mainstream zero-shot voice conversion approaches depend on pre-trained recognition models to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yuke Li , Xinfa Zhu , Hanzhao Li , JiXun Yao , WenJie Tian , XiPeng Yang , YunLin Chen , Zhifei Li , Lei Xie

Singing voice beat tracking is a challenging task, due to the lack of musical accompaniment that often contains robust rhythmic and harmonic patterns, something most existing beat tracking systems utilize and can be essential for estimating…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jiajun Deng , Yaolong Ju , Jing Yang , Simon Lui , Xunying Liu

In deep learning research, many melody extraction models rely on redesigning neural network architectures to improve performance. In this paper, we propose an input feature modification and a training objective modification based on two…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Keren Shao , Ke Chen , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

We introduce a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion (VC) model based on the Transformer architecture with text-to-speech (TTS) pretraining. Seq2seq VC models are attractive owing to their ability to convert prosody. While…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Yi-Chiao Wu , Hirokazu Kameoka , Tomoki Toda

This paper presents a high quality singing synthesizer that is able to model a voice with limited available recordings. Based on the sequence-to-sequence singing model, we design a multi-singer framework to leverage all the existing singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Jie Wu , Jian Luan

Voice conversion has emerged as a pivotal technology in numerous applications ranging from assistive communication to entertainment. In this paper, we present RT-VC, a zero-shot real-time voice conversion system that delivers ultra-low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Yisi Liu , Chenyang Wang , Hanjo Kim , Raniya Khan , Gopala Anumanchipalli

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 introduce a neural auto-encoder that transforms the musical dynamic in recordings of singing voice via changes in voice level. Since most recordings of singing voice are not annotated with voice level we propose a means to estimate the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Frederik Bous , Axel Roebel

Customizable multilingual zero-shot singing voice synthesis (SVS) has various potential applications in music composition and short video dubbing. However, existing SVS models overly depend on phoneme and note boundary annotations, limiting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Yu Zhang , Wenxiang Guo , Changhao Pan , Dongyu Yao , Zhiyuan Zhu , Ziyue Jiang , Yuhan Wang , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

One-shot voice conversion has received significant attention since only one utterance from source speaker and target speaker respectively is required. Moreover, source speaker and target speaker do not need to be seen during training.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hongqiang Du , Lei Xie

Disentangling content and speaking style information is essential for zero-shot non-parallel voice conversion (VC). Our previous study investigated a novel framework with disentangled sequential variational autoencoder (DSVAE) as the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Jiachen Lian , Chunlei Zhang , Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli , Dong Yu

The human voice conveys not just words but also emotional states and individuality. Emotional voice conversion (EVC) modifies emotional expressions while preserving linguistic content and speaker identity, improving applications like…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Hsing-Hang Chou , Yun-Shao Lin , Ching-Chin Sung , Yu Tsao , Chi-Chun Lee