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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 an end-to-end Korean singing voice synthesis system from lyrics and a symbolic melody using the following three novel approaches: 1) phonetic enhancement masking, 2) local conditioning of text and pitch to the…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Juheon Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Chang-Bin Jeon , Junghyun Koo , Kyogu Lee

Expressive speech synthesis models are trained by adding corpora with diverse speakers, various emotions, and different speaking styles to the dataset, in order to control various characteristics of speech and generate the desired voice. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Daegyeom Kim , Seongho Hong , Yong-Hoon Choi

This paper proposes a unified model to conduct emotion transfer, control and prediction for sequence-to-sequence based fine-grained emotional speech synthesis. Conventional emotional speech synthesis often needs manual labels or reference…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yi Lei , Shan Yang , Lei Xie

In this paper, we present a novel method for phoneme-level prosody control of F0 and duration using intuitive discrete labels. We propose an unsupervised prosodic clustering process which is used to discretize phoneme-level F0 and duration…

Different people have different facial expressions while speaking emotionally. A realistic facial animation system should consider such identity-specific speaking styles and facial idiosyncrasies to achieve high-degree of naturalness and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Elif Bozkurt

Recent advancements in speech synthesis have enabled large language model (LLM)-based systems to perform zero-shot generation with controllable content, timbre, speaker identity, and emotion through input prompts. As a result, these models…

While existing Singing Voice Synthesis systems achieve high-fidelity solo performances, they are constrained by global timbre control, failing to address dynamic multi-singer arrangement and vocal texture within a single song. To address…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiatao Chen , Xing Tang , Xiaoyue Duan , Yutang Feng , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

The single-speaker singing voice synthesis (SVS) usually underperforms at pitch values that are out of the singer's vocal range or associated with limited training samples. Based on our previous work, this work proposes a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Shaohuan Zhou , Xu Li , Zhiyong Wu , Ying Shan , Helen Meng

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 Synthesis (SVS) aims to generate singing voices of high fidelity and expressiveness. Conventional SVS systems usually utilize an acoustic model to transform a music score into acoustic features, followed by a vocoder to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 Jianwei Cui , Yu Gu , Shihao Chen , Jie Zhang , Liping Chen , Lirong Dai

Singing voice correction (SVC) is an appealing application for amateur singers. Commercial products automate SVC by snapping pitch contours to equal-tempered scales, which could lead to deadpan modifications. Together with the neglect of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Yin-Jyun Luo , Yuen-Jen Lin , Li Su

Emotion embedding space learned from references is a straightforward approach for emotion transfer in encoder-decoder structured emotional text to speech (TTS) systems. However, the transferred emotion in the synthetic speech is not…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Tao Li , Shan Yang , Liumeng Xue , Lei Xie

Mellotron is a multispeaker voice synthesis model based on Tacotron 2 GST that can make a voice emote and sing without emotive or singing training data. By explicitly conditioning on rhythm and continuous pitch contours from an audio signal…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Rafael Valle , Jason Li , Ryan Prenger , Bryan Catanzaro

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

Voice cloning is the task of learning to synthesize the voice of an unseen speaker from a few samples. While current voice cloning methods achieve promising results in Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis for a new voice, these approaches lack…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Paarth Neekhara , Shehzeen Hussain , Shlomo Dubnov , Farinaz Koushanfar , Julian McAuley

The purpose of this study is to investigate how humans interpret musical scores expressively, and then design machines that sing like humans. We consider six factors that have a strong influence on the expression of human singing. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Ju-Chiang Wang , Hung-Yan Gu , Hsin-Min Wang

We present a deep learning based methodology for extracting the singing voice signal from a musical mixture based on the underlying linguistic content. Our model follows an encoder decoder architecture and takes as input the magnitude…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Pritish Chandna , Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Emilia Gomez

Expressive synthetic speech is essential for many human-computer interaction and audio broadcast scenarios, and thus synthesizing expressive speech has attracted much attention in recent years. Previous methods performed the expressive…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yi Lei , Shan Yang , Xinsheng Wang , Lei Xie

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