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Singing voice conversion (SVC) is one promising technique which can enrich the way of human-computer interaction by endowing a computer the ability to produce high-fidelity and expressive singing voice. In this paper, we propose DiffSVC, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Dan Su , Helen Meng

Singing voice separation and vocal pitch estimation are pivotal tasks in music information retrieval. Existing methods for simultaneous extraction of clean vocals and vocal pitches can be classified into two categories: pipeline methods and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Haojie Wei , Xueke Cao , Wenbo Xu , Tangpeng Dan , Yueguo Chen

Recent advancements in speech synthesis witness significant benefits by leveraging discrete tokens extracted from self-supervised learning (SSL) models. Discrete tokens offer higher storage efficiency and greater operability in intermediate…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuning Wu , Chunlei zhang , Jiatong Shi , Yuxun Tang , Shan Yang , Qin Jin

Music source separation (MSS) is a task that involves isolating individual sound sources, or stems, from mixed audio signals. This paper presents an ensemble approach to MSS, combining several state-of-the-art architectures to achieve…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Saarth Vardhan , Pavani R Acharya , Samarth S Rao , Oorjitha Ratna Jasthi , S Natarajan

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) is a technique that enables any singer to perform any song. To achieve this, it is essential to obtain speaker-agnostic representations from the source audio, which poses a significant challenge. A common…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xueyao Zhang , Zihao Fang , Yicheng Gu , Haopeng Chen , Lexiao Zou , Junan Zhang , Liumeng Xue , Zhizheng Wu

We propose a flexible framework that deals with both singer conversion and singers vocal technique conversion. The proposed model is trained on non-parallel corpora, accommodates many-to-many conversion, and leverages recent advances of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Yin-Jyun Luo , Chin-Chen Hsu , Kat Agres , Dorien Herremans

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

Vocoders are models capable of transforming a low-dimensional spectral representation of an audio signal, typically the mel spectrogram, to a waveform. Modern speech generation pipelines use a vocoder as their final component. Recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Bruno Di Giorgi , Mark Levy , Richard Sharp

Different self-supervised tasks (SSL) reveal different features from the data. The learned feature representations can exhibit different performance for each downstream task. In this light, this work aims to combine Multiple SSL tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) has seen remarkable advancements in recent years. However, compared to speech and general audio data, publicly available singing datasets remain limited. In practice, this data scarcity often leads to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yiwen Zhao , Jiatong Shi , Yuxun Tang , William Chen , Shinji Watanabe

In real-world singing voice conversion (SVC) applications, environmental noise and the demand for expressive output pose significant challenges. Conventional methods, however, are typically designed without accounting for real deployment…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Junjie Zheng , Gongyu Chen , Chaofan Ding , Zihao Chen

Since the vocal component plays a crucial role in popular music, singing voice detection has been an active research topic in music information retrieval. Although several proposed algorithms have shown high performances, we argue that…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Kyungyun Lee , Keunwoo Choi , Juhan Nam

Recent advancements in generative models have significantly enhanced talking face video generation, yet singing video generation remains underexplored. The differences between human talking and singing limit the performance of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yan Li , Ziya Zhou , Zhiqiang Wang , Wei Xue , Wenhan Luo , Yike Guo

Singing voice conversion (SVC) is hindered by noise sensitivity due to the use of non-robust methods for extracting pitch and energy during the inference. As clean signals are key for the source audio in SVC, music source separation…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Wei Chen , Xintao Zhao , Jun Chen , Binzhu Sha , Zhiwei Lin , Zhiyong Wu

Continuous speech separation (CSS) aims to separate overlapping voices from a continuous influx of conversational audio containing an unknown number of utterances spoken by an unknown number of speakers. A common application scenario is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Zhuohuang Zhang , Takuya Yoshioka , Naoyuki Kanda , Zhuo Chen , Xiaofei Wang , Dongmei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez

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

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 focuses on the often-overlooked aspect of perceived voice femininity in singing voices. While existing research has examined perceived voice femininity in speech, the same concept has not yet been studied in singing voice. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yuexuan Kong , Viet-Anh Tran , Romain Hennequin

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

Speech Activity Detection (SAD) systems often misclassify singing as speech, leading to degraded performance in applications such as dialogue enhancement and automatic speech recognition. We introduce Singing-Robust Speech Activity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Philipp Grundhuber , Mhd Modar Halimeh , Martin Strauß , Emanuël A. P. Habets