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Custom voice is to construct a personal speech synthesis system by adapting the source speech synthesis model to the target model through the target few recordings. The solution to constructing a custom voice is to combine an adaptive…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Xin Yuan , Yongbing Feng , Mingming Ye , Cheng Tuo , Minghang Zhang

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

We propose a unified framework for Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) and Conversion (SVC), addressing the limitations of existing approaches in cross-domain SVS/SVC, poor output musicality, and scarcity of singing data. Our framework enables…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Shuqi Dai , Yunyun Wang , Roger B. Dannenberg , Zeyu Jin

Recently, sequence-to-sequence (seq-to-seq) models have been successfully applied in text-to-speech (TTS) to synthesize speech for single-language text. To synthesize speech for multiple languages usually requires multi-lingual speech from…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Haitong Zhang , Yue Lin

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

The potential of synthetic data in text-to-speech (TTS) model training has gained increasing attention, yet its rationality and effectiveness require systematic validation. In this study, we systematically investigate the feasibility of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tingxiao Zhou , Leying Zhang , Zhengyang Chen , Yanmin Qian

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

High-fidelity multi-singer singing voice synthesis is challenging for neural vocoder due to the singing voice data shortage, limited singer generalization, and large computational cost. Existing open corpora could not meet requirements for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Rongjie Huang , Feiyang Chen , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Chenye Cui , Zhou Zhao

High-fidelity singing voices usually require higher sampling rate (e.g., 48kHz) to convey expression and emotion. However, higher sampling rate causes the wider frequency band and longer waveform sequences and throws challenges for singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Jiawei Chen , Xu Tan , Jian Luan , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

In this paper, we develop DeepSinger, a multi-lingual multi-singer singing voice synthesis (SVS) system, which is built from scratch using singing training data mined from music websites. The pipeline of DeepSinger consists of several…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-16 Yi Ren , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Jian Luan , Zhou Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Most existing neural-based text-to-speech methods rely on extensive datasets and face challenges under low-resource condition. In this paper, we introduce a novel semi-supervised text-to-speech synthesis model that learns from both paired…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Jianzong Wang , Pengcheng Li , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

A vocoder is a conditional audio generation model that converts acoustic features such as mel-spectrograms into waveforms. Taking inspiration from Differentiable Digital Signal Processing (DDSP), we propose a new vocoder named SawSing for…

A singing voice conversion model converts a song in the voice of an arbitrary source singer to the voice of a target singer. Recently, methods that leverage self-supervised audio representations such as HuBERT and Wav2Vec 2.0 have helped…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Tejas Jayashankar , Jilong Wu , Leda Sari , David Kant , Vimal Manohar , Qing He

Multi-speaker spoken datasets enable the creation of text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) systems which can output several voice identities. The multi-speaker (MSPK) scenario also enables the use of fewer training samples per speaker. However, in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Beata Lorincz , Adriana Stan , Mircea Giurgiu

With recent advancements in voice cloning, the performance of speech synthesis for a target speaker has been rendered similar to the human level. However, autoregressive voice cloning systems still suffer from text alignment failures,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Artem Gorodetskii , Ivan Ozhiganov

Data efficient voice cloning aims at synthesizing target speaker's voice with only a few enrollment samples at hand. To this end, speaker adaptation and speaker encoding are two typical methods based on base model trained from multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Jian Cong , Shan Yang , Lei Xie , Guoqiao Yu , Guanglu Wan

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems are being built using end-to-end deep learning approaches. However, these systems require huge amounts of training data. We present our approach to built production quality TTS and perform speaker adaptation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Raviraj Joshi , Nikesh Garera

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…

Recently, denoising diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance among generative models in various domains. However, in the speech domain, the application of diffusion models for synthesizing time-varying audio faces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Ji-Sang Hwang , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

In the existing cross-speaker style transfer task, a source speaker with multi-style recordings is necessary to provide the style for a target speaker. However, it is hard for one speaker to express all expected styles. In this paper, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-24 Qicong Xie , Tao Li , Xinsheng Wang , Zhichao Wang , Lei Xie , Guoqiao Yu , Guanglu Wan