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Currently, there are increasing interests in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis to use sequence-to-sequence models with attention. These models are end-to-end meaning that they learn both co-articulation and duration properties directly from…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Bajibabu Bollepalli , Lauri Juvela , Paavo Alku

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

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

This paper presents a novel framework to build a voice conversion (VC) system by learning from a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system, that is called TTS-VC transfer learning. We first develop a multi-speaker speech synthesis system with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-07 Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Li Zhao , Haizhou Li

In expressive speech synthesis it is widely adopted to use latent prosody representations to deal with variability of the data during training. Same text may correspond to various acoustic realizations, which is known as a one-to-many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Mikolaj Babianski , Kamil Pokora , Raahil Shah , Rafal Sienkiewicz , Daniel Korzekwa , Viacheslav Klimkov

Speech synthesis has come a long way as current text-to-speech (TTS) models can now generate natural human-sounding speech. However, most of the TTS research focuses on using adult speech data and there has been very limited work done on…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Rishabh Jain , Mariam Yiwere , Dan Bigioi , Peter Corcoran , Horia Cucu

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

This paper proposes singing voice synthesis (SVS) based on frame-level sequence-to-sequence models considering vocal timing deviation. In SVS, it is essential to synchronize the timing of singing with temporal structures represented by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Miku Nishihara , Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

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

Recent progress in diffusion-based Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) demonstrates strong expressiveness but remains limited by data scarcity and model scalability. We introduce a two-stage pipeline: a compact seed set of human-sung recordings…

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

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

Various parametric representations have been proposed to model the speech signal. While the performance of such vocoders is well-known in the context of speech processing, their extrapolation to singing voice synthesis might not be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Onur Babacan , Thomas Drugman , Tuomo Raitio , Daniel Erro , Thierry Dutoit

Regressive Text-to-Speech (TTS) system utilizes attention mechanism to generate alignment between text and acoustic feature sequence. Alignment determines synthesis robustness (e.g, the occurence of skipping, repeating, and collapse) and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dengfeng Ke , Yayue Deng , Yukang Jia , Jinlong Xue , Qi Luo , Ya Li , Jianqing Sun , Jiaen Liang , Binghuai Lin

Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) has become a hot research topic recently, mainly focusing on modeling prosody in speech. Prosody modeling has several challenges: 1) the extracted pitch used in previous prosody modeling works have inevitable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Yi Ren , Ming Lei , Zhiying Huang , Shiliang Zhang , Qian Chen , Zhijie Yan , Zhou Zhao

This paper proposes a hierarchical, fine-grained and interpretable latent variable model for prosody based on the Tacotron 2 text-to-speech model. It achieves multi-resolution modeling of prosody by conditioning finer level representations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Guangzhi Sun , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Yuan Cao , Heiga Zen , Yonghui Wu

Conversational text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize speech with proper prosody of reply based on the historical conversation. However, it is still a challenge to comprehensively model the conversation, and a majority of conversational…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Jinlong Xue , Yayue Deng , Fengping Wang , Ya Li , Yingming Gao , Jianhua Tao , Jianqing Sun , Jiaen Liang

We propose PromptTTS++, a prompt-based text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system that allows control over speaker identity using natural language descriptions. To control speaker identity within the prompt-based TTS framework, we introduce the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Reo Shimizu , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Masaya Kawamura , Yuma Shirahata , Hironori Doi , Tatsuya Komatsu , Kentaro Tachibana

We present a neural text-to-speech system for fine-grained prosody transfer from one speaker to another. Conventional approaches for end-to-end prosody transfer typically use either fixed-dimensional or variable-length prosody embedding via…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Viacheslav Klimkov , Srikanth Ronanki , Jonas Rohnke , Thomas Drugman

Rap, a prominent genre of vocal performance, remains underexplored in vocal generation. General vocal synthesis depends on precise note and duration inputs, requiring users to have related musical knowledge, which limits flexibility. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 Ziqian Ning , Shuai Wang , Yuepeng Jiang , Jixun Yao , Lei He , Shifeng Pan , Jie Ding , Lei Xie