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Data augmentation is a widely adopted technique utilized to improve the robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Employing a fixed data augmentation strategy for all training data is a common practice. However, it is important to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hongxuan Lu , Biao Li

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 aims to introduce a robust singing voice synthesis (SVS) system to produce very natural and realistic singing voices efficiently by leveraging the adversarial training strategy. On one hand, we designed simple but generic random…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zewang Zhang , Yibin Zheng , Xinhui Li , Li Lu

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) aims to generate natural and expressive singing waveforms from symbolic musical scores. In cVAE-based SVS, however, a mismatch arises because the decoder is trained with latent representations inferred from…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Minhyeok Yun , Yong-Hoon Choi

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

With the advances in deep learning, speech enhancement systems benefited from large neural network architectures and achieved state-of-the-art quality. However, speaker-agnostic methods are not always desirable, both in terms of quality and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Anastasia Kuznetsova , Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim

The present paper describes singing voice synthesis based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Singing voice synthesis systems based on deep neural networks (DNNs) are currently being proposed and are improving the naturalness of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Kazuhiro Nakamura , Shinji Takaki , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Recent advances in synthetic speech quality have enabled us to train text-to-speech (TTS) systems by using synthetic corpora. However, merely increasing the amount of synthetic data is not always advantageous for improving training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Eunwoo Song , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Ohsung Kwon , Chan-Ho Song , Min-Jae Hwang , Suhyeon Oh , Hyun-Wook Yoon , Jin-Seob Kim , Jae-Min Kim

This paper presents an end-to-end high-quality singing voice synthesis (SVS) system that uses bidirectional encoder representation from Transformers (BERT) derived semantic embeddings to improve the expressiveness of the synthesized singing…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Shaohuan Zhou , Shun Lei , Weiya You , Deyi Tuo , Yuren You , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Helen Meng

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) aims to produce high-fidelity singing audio from music scores, requiring a detailed understanding of notes, pitch, and duration, unlike text-to-speech tasks. Although diffusion models have shown exceptional…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Kehan Sui , Jinxu Xiang , Fang Jin

We investigate the feasibility of a singing voice synthesis (SVS) system by using a decomposed framework to improve flexibility in generating singing voices. Due to data-driven approaches, SVS performs a music score-to-waveform mapping;…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Lester Phillip Violeta , Taketo Akama

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…

The present paper describes a singing voice synthesis based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Singing voice synthesis systems based on deep neural networks (DNNs) are currently being proposed and are improving the naturalness of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Kazuhiro Nakamura , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) is the computer production of a human-like singing voice from given musical scores. To accomplish end-to-end SVS effectively and efficiently, this work adopts the acoustic model-neural vocoder architecture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Yin-Ping Cho , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang , Yi-Wen Liu

There are many use cases in singing synthesis where creating voices from small amounts of data is desirable. In text-to-speech there have been several promising results that apply voice cloning techniques to modern deep learning based…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Ryunosuke Daido

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…

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) has advanced significantly, enabling models to generate vocals with accurate pitch and consistent style. As these capabilities improve, the need for reliable evaluation and optimization becomes increasingly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xueyan Li , Yuxin Wang , Mengjie Jiang , Qingzi Zhu , Jiang Zhang , Zoey Kim , Yazhe Niu

Detecting singing-voice in polyphonic instrumental music is critical to music information retrieval. To train a robust vocal detector, a large dataset marked with vocal or non-vocal label at frame-level is essential. However, frame-level…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Yuanbo Hou , Frank K. Soong , Jian Luan , Shengchen Li

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

This paper proposes a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model with a musical note position-aware attention mechanism for singing voice synthesis (SVS). A seq2seq modeling approach that can simultaneously perform acoustic and temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda