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A main challenge in applying deep learning to music processing is the availability of training data. One potential solution is Multi-task Learning, in which the model also learns to solve related auxiliary tasks on additional datasets to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Daniel Stoller , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

While recent neural text-to-speech (TTS) systems perform remarkably well, they typically require a substantial amount of recordings from the target speaker reading in the desired speaking style. In this work, we present a novel 3-step…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Goeric Huybrechts , Thomas Merritt , Giulia Comini , Bartek Perz , Raahil Shah , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

This paper investigates the use of unsupervised text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) as a data augmentation method to improve accented speech recognition. TTS systems are trained with a small amount of accented speech training data and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Cong-Thanh Do , Shuhei Imai , Rama Doddipatla , Thomas Hain

This paper proposes a method for selecting training data for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis from dark data. TTS models are typically trained on high-quality speech corpora that cost much time and money for data collection, which makes it…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Kentaro Seki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Takaaki Saeki , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Sequential recommender systems have recently achieved significant performance improvements with the exploitation of deep learning (DL) based methods. However, although various DL-based methods have been introduced, most of them only focus…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Joo-yeong Song , Bongwon Suh

Own voice pickup for hearables in noisy environments benefits from using both an outer and an in-ear microphone outside and inside the occluded ear. Due to environmental noise recorded at both microphones, and amplification of the own voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Mattes Ohlenbusch , Christian Rollwage , Simon Doclo

Synthetic data augmentation helps language models learn new knowledge in data-constrained domains. However, naively scaling existing synthetic data methods by training on more synthetic tokens or using stronger generators yields diminishing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Seungju Han , Konwoo Kim , Chanwoo Park , Benjamin Newman , Suhas Kotha , Jaehun Jung , James Zou , Yejin Choi

We present a new model for singing synthesis based on a modified version of the WaveNet architecture. Instead of modeling raw waveform, we model features produced by a parametric vocoder that separates the influence of pitch and timbre.…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada

Detecting singing voice deepfakes, or SingFake, involves determining the authenticity and copyright of a singing voice. Existing models for speech deepfake detection have struggled to adapt to unseen attacks in this unique singing voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Xuanjun Chen , Haibin Wu , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang , Hung-yi Lee

Note-level Automatic Singing Voice Transcription (AST) converts singing recordings into note sequences, facilitating the automatic annotation of singing datasets for Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) applications. Current AST methods, however,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Ruiqi Li , Yu Zhang , Yongqi Wang , Zhiqing Hong , Rongjie Huang , Zhou Zhao

We study the problem of semi-supervised singing voice separation, in which the training data contains a set of samples of mixed music (singing and instrumental) and an unmatched set of instrumental music. Our solution employs a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Michael Michelashvili , Sagie Benaim , Lior Wolf

Regenerating singing voices with altered lyrics while preserving melody consistency remains challenging, as existing methods either offer limited controllability or require laborious manual alignment. We propose YingMusic-Singer-Plus, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Chunbo Hao , Junjie Zheng , Guobin Ma , Yuepeng Jiang , Huakang Chen , Wenjie Tian , Gongyu Chen , Zihao Chen , Lei Xie

State-of-the-art singing voice separation is based on deep learning making use of CNN structures with skip connections (like U-net model, Wave-U-Net model, or MSDENSELSTM). A key to the success of these models is the availability of a large…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Alice Cohen-Hadria , Axel Roebel , Geoffroy Peeters

Self-training (ST) and self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have demonstrated strong improvements in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In spite of these advances, to the best of our knowledge, there is no analysis of how the composition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Dan Berrebbi , Ronan Collobert , Navdeep Jaitly , Tatiana Likhomanenko

Modern speech enhancement (SE) networks typically implement noise suppression through time-frequency masking, latent representation masking, or discriminative signal prediction. In contrast, some recent works explore SE via generative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Bryce Irvin , Marko Stamenovic , Mikolaj Kegler , Li-Chia Yang

End-to-end singing voice synthesis (SVS) is attractive due to the avoidance of pre-aligned data. However, the auto learned alignment of singing voice with lyrics is difficult to match the duration information in musical score, which will…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Tao Wang , Ruibo Fu , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Zhengqi Wen

Data augmentation is a crucial technique for training robust deep learning models for human motion, where annotated datasets are often scarce. However, generic augmentation methods often ignore the underlying geometric and kinematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bikram De , Habib Irani , Vangelis Metsis

Recently, SpecAugment, an augmentation scheme for automatic speech recognition that acts directly on the spectrogram of input utterances, has shown to be highly effective in enhancing the performance of end-to-end networks on public…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Daniel S. Park , Yu Zhang , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Youzheng Chen , Bo Li , William Chan , Quoc V. Le , Yonghui Wu

Despite significant recent progress in the area of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), there are numerous shortcomings associated with collecting Electroencephalography (EEG) signals in real-world environments. These include, but are not…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-14 Nik Khadijah Nik Aznan , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Stephen Bonner , Jason Connolly , Noura Al Moubayed , Toby Breckon

Data augmentation is widely used for machine learning; however, an effective method to apply data augmentation has not been established even though it includes several factors that should be tuned carefully. One such factor is sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Tomoumi Takase , Ryo Karakida , Hideki Asoh