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With the rapid development of neural network architectures and speech processing models, singing voice synthesis with neural networks is becoming the cutting-edge technique of digital music production. In this work, in order to explore how…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Dengfeng Ke , Yuxing Lu , Xudong Liu , Yanyan Xu , Jing Sun , Cheng-Hao Cai

Recent singing-voice-synthesis (SVS) methods have achieved remarkable audio quality and naturalness, yet they lack the capability to control the style attributes of the synthesized singing explicitly. We propose Prompt-Singer, the first SVS…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yongqi Wang , Ruofan Hu , Rongjie Huang , Zhiqing Hong , Ruiqi Li , Wenrui Liu , Fuming You , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

This paper presents an expressive speech synthesis architecture for modeling and controlling the speaking style at a word level. It attempts to learn word-level stylistic and prosodic representations of the speech data, with the aid of two…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Konstantinos Klapsas , Nikolaos Ellinas , June Sig Sung , Hyoungmin Park , Spyros Raptis

This paper introduces a multi-scale speech style modeling method for end-to-end expressive speech synthesis. The proposed method employs a multi-scale reference encoder to extract both the global-scale utterance-level and the local-scale…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Xiang Li , Changhe Song , Jingbei Li , Zhiyong Wu , Jia Jia , Helen Meng

Controllable speech synthesis aims to control the style of generated speech using reference input, which can be of various modalities. Existing face-based methods struggle with robustness and generalization due to data quality constraints,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Rui Niu , Weihao Wu , Jie Chen , Long Ma , Zhiyong Wu

Singing voice synthesis has made remarkable progress in generating natural and high-quality voices. However, existing methods rarely provide precise control over vocal techniques such as intensity, mixed voice, falsetto, bubble, and breathy…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Wenxiang Guo , Yu Zhang , Changhao Pan , Rongjie Huang , Li Tang , Ruiqi Li , Zhiqing Hong , Yongqi Wang , Zhou Zhao

Suffering from limited singing voice corpus, existing singing voice synthesis (SVS) methods that build encoder-decoder neural networks to directly generate spectrogram could lead to out-of-tune issues during the inference phase. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Shujun Liu , Hai Zhu , Kun Wang , Huajun Wang

Controllable TTS models with natural language prompts often lack the ability for fine-grained control and face a scarcity of high-quality data. We propose a two-stage style-controllable TTS system with language models, utilizing a quantized…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yongqi Wang , Chunlei Zhang , Hangting Chen , Zhou Zhao , Dong Yu

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

Controllable Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) aims to generate expressive singing voices reflecting user intent. While recent SVS systems achieve high audio quality, most rely on probabilistic modeling, limiting precise control over attributes…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yerin Ryu , Inseop Shin , Chanwoo Kim

We propose a semi-supervised singing synthesizer, which is able to learn new voices from audio data only, without any annotations such as phonetic segmentation. Our system is an encoder-decoder model with two encoders, linguistic and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Jordi Bonada , Merlijn Blaauw

Singing voice conversion aims to transform a source singing voice into that of a target singer while preserving the original lyrics, melody, and various vocal techniques. In this paper, we propose a high-fidelity singing voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yiquan Zhou , Wenyu Wang , Hongwu Ding , Jiacheng Xu , Jihua Zhu , Xin Gao , Shihao Li

This paper proposes an expressive singing voice synthesis system by introducing explicit vibrato modeling and latent energy representation. Vibrato is essential to the naturalness of synthesized sound, due to the inherent characteristics of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yingjie Song , Wei Song , Wei Zhang , Zhengchen Zhang , Dan Zeng , Zhi Liu , Yang Yu

In this study, we define the identity of the singer with two independent concepts - timbre and singing style - and propose a multi-singer singing synthesis system that can model them separately. To this end, we extend our single-singer…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Juheon Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Junghyun Koo , Kyogu Lee

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

This paper presents an advanced end-to-end singing voice synthesis (SVS) system based on the source-filter mechanism that directly translates lyrical and melodic cues into expressive and high-fidelity human-like singing. Similarly to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Jianwei Cui , Yu Gu , Chao Weng , Jie Zhang , Liping Chen , Lirong Dai

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

Automatic transcription of monophonic/polyphonic music is a challenging task due to the lack of availability of large amounts of transcribed data. In this paper, we propose a data augmentation method that converts natural speech to singing…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Sakya Basak , Shrutina Agarwal , Sriram Ganapathy , Naoya Takahashi

Some recent studies have demonstrated the feasibility of single-stage neural text-to-speech, which does not need to generate mel-spectrograms but generates the raw waveforms directly from the text. Single-stage text-to-speech often faces…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Zhengxi Liu , Qiao Tian , Chenxu Hu , Xudong Liu , Menglin Wu , Yuping Wang , Hang Zhao , Yuxuan Wang

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
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