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We present a novel high-fidelity real-time neural vocoder called VocGAN. A recently developed GAN-based vocoder, MelGAN, produces speech waveforms in real-time. However, it often produces a waveform that is insufficient in quality or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Jinhyeok Yang , Junmo Lee , Youngik Kim , Hoonyoung Cho , Injung Kim

In unsupervised data generation tasks, besides the generation of a sample based on previous observations, one would often like to give hints to the model in order to bias the generation towards desirable metrics. We propose a method that…

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have produced significantly improved results in speech enhancement (SE) tasks. They are difficult to train, however. In this work, we introduce several improvements to the GAN training…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Vasily Zadorozhnyy , Qiang Ye , Kazuhito Koishida

Deep generative models have demonstrated the ability to create realistic audiovisual content, sometimes driven by domains of different nature. However, smooth temporal dynamics in video generation is a challenging problem. This work focuses…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Rafael Redondo

A method for statistical parametric speech synthesis incorporating generative adversarial networks (GANs) is proposed. Although powerful deep neural networks (DNNs) techniques can be applied to artificially synthesize speech waveform, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Nonparallel multi-domain voice conversion methods such as the StarGAN-VCs have been widely applied in many scenarios. However, the training of these models usually poses a challenge due to their complicated adversarial network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Xulong Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

While generative adversarial networks (GANs) based neural text-to-speech (TTS) systems have shown significant improvement in neural speech synthesis, there is no TTS system to learn to synthesize speech from text sequences with only…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Sang-Hoon Lee , Hyun-Wook Yoon , Hyeong-Rae Noh , Ji-Hoon Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Synthetic creation of drum sounds (e.g., in drum machines) is commonly performed using analog or digital synthesis, allowing a musician to sculpt the desired timbre modifying various parameters. Typically, such parameters control low-level…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 J. Nistal , S. Lattner , G. Richard

As a foundational technology for intelligent human-computer interaction, voice conversion (VC) seeks to transform speech from any source timbre into any target timbre. Traditional voice conversion methods based on Generative Adversarial…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wenhan Yao , Fen Xiao , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , YongQiang He , Weiping Wen

Despite recent progress in generative adversarial network (GAN)-based vocoders, where the model generates raw waveform conditioned on acoustic features, it is challenging to synthesize high-fidelity audio for numerous speakers across…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Sang-gil Lee , Wei Ping , Boris Ginsburg , Bryan Catanzaro , Sungroh Yoon

With rapid advances in audio-visual generative models, reliable forgery detection becomes increasingly critical. Existing methods for audio-visual deepfake detection typically rely on cross-modal inconsistencies. In singing, rhythmic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ke Liu , Jiwei Wei , Wenyu Zhang , Shuchang Zhou , Ruikun Chai , Yutao Dai , Chaoning Zhang , Yang Yang

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

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) has emerged as a significant subfield of Voice Conversion (VC), enabling the transformation of one singer's voice into another while preserving musical elements such as melody, rhythm, and timbre. Traditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yubo Huang , Xin Lai , Muyang Ye , Anran Zhu , Zixi Wang , Jingzehua Xu , Shuai Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhou , Weijie Niu

Diffusion-based audio and music generation models commonly perform generation by constructing an image representation of audio (e.g., a mel-spectrogram) and then convert it to audio using a phase reconstruction model or vocoder. Typical…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ge Zhu , Juan-Pablo Caceres , Zhiyao Duan , Nicholas J. Bryan

Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) has witnessed significant advancements with the advent of deep learning techniques. However, a significant challenge in SVS is the scarcity of labeled singing voice data, which limits the effectiveness of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yifeng Yu , Jiatong Shi , Yuning Wu , Yuxun Tang , Shinji Watanabe

Singing voice conversion is to convert a singer's voice to another one's voice without changing singing content. Recent work shows that unsupervised singing voice conversion can be achieved with an autoencoder-based approach [1]. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chengqi Deng , Chengzhu Yu , Heng Lu , Chao Weng , Dong Yu

We present S$^2$Voice, the winning system of the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge (SVCC) 2025 for both the in-domain and zero-shot singing style conversion tracks. Built on the strong two-stage Vevo baseline, S$^2$Voice advances style…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Ziqian Wang , Xianjun Xia , Chuanzeng Huang , Lei Xie

This paper introduces WaveGrad, a conditional model for waveform generation which estimates gradients of the data density. The model is built on prior work on score matching and diffusion probabilistic models. It starts from a Gaussian…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Nanxin Chen , Yu Zhang , Heiga Zen , Ron J. Weiss , Mohammad Norouzi , William Chan

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) is a task that aims to generate audio signals according to musical scores and lyrics. With its multifaceted nature concerning music and language, producing singing voices indistinguishable from that of human…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Yin-Ping Cho , Fu-Rong Yang , Yung-Chuan Chang , Ching-Ting Cheng , Xiao-Han Wang , Yi-Wen Liu

Voice Conversion (VC) modifies speech to match a target speaker while preserving linguistic content. Traditional methods usually extract speaker information directly from speech while neglecting the explicit utilization of linguistic…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Fengjin Li , Jie Wang , Yadong Niu , Yongqing Wang , Meng Meng , Jian Luan , Zhiyong Wu