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In this work, we introduce a framework for cross-lingual speech synthesis, which involves an upstream Voice Conversion (VC) model and a downstream Text-To-Speech (TTS) model. The proposed framework consists of 4 stages. In the first two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Dariusz Piotrowski , Renard Korzeniowski , Alessio Falai , Sebastian Cygert , Kamil Pokora , Georgi Tinchev , Ziyao Zhang , Kayoko Yanagisawa

Typically, singing voice conversion (SVC) depends on an embedding vector, extracted from either a speaker lookup table (LUT) or a speaker recognition network (SRN), to model speaker identity. However, singing contains more expressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Xu Li , Shansong Liu , Ying Shan

Code-switching (CS), the alternation between two or more languages within a single conversation, presents significant challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Existing Mandarin-English code-switching datasets often suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Jiaming Zhou , Yujie Guo , Shiwan Zhao , Haoqin Sun , Hui Wang , Jiabei He , Aobo Kong , Shiyao Wang , Xi Yang , Yequan Wang , Yonghua Lin , Yong Qin

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

Singing voice conversion is to convert the source singing voice into the target singing voice except for the content. Currently, flow-based models can complete the task of voice conversion, but they struggle to effectively extract latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Hui Li , Hongyu Wang , Zhijin Chen , Bohan Sun , Bo Li

Singing voice conversion is converting the timbre in the source singing to the target speaker's voice while keeping singing content the same. However, singing data for target speaker is much more difficult to collect compared with normal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Liqiang Zhang , Chengzhu Yu , Heng Lu , Chao Weng , Chunlei Zhang , Yusong Wu , Xiang Xie , Zijin Li , Dong Yu

Text-to-Speech (TTS) models have advanced significantly, aiming to accurately replicate human speech's diversity, including unique speaker identities and linguistic nuances. Despite these advancements, achieving an optimal balance between…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Jinhyeok Yang , Junhyeok Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Seunghun Ji , Hyeongju Kim , Juheon Lee

In this work, we propose a joint system combining a talking face generation system with a text-to-speech system that can generate multilingual talking face videos from only the text input. Our system can synthesize natural multilingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Hyoung-Kyu Song , Sang Hoon Woo , Junhyeok Lee , Seungmin Yang , Hyunjae Cho , Youseong Lee , Dongho Choi , Kang-wook Kim

XiaoiceSing is a singing voice synthesis (SVS) system that aims at generating 48kHz singing voices. However, the mel-spectrogram generated by it is over-smoothing in middle- and high-frequency areas due to no special design for modeling the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Chunhui Wang , Chang Zeng , Xing He

Large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models have made significant progress recently.However, they still fall short in the generation of Chinese dialectal speech. Toaddress this, we propose Bailing-TTS, a family of large-scale TTS models capable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xinhan Di , Zihao Chen , Yunming Liang , Junjie Zheng , Yihua Wang , Chaofan Ding

We propose PolyVoice, a language model-based framework for speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system. Our framework consists of two language models: a translation language model and a speech synthesis language model. We use discretized…

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

Recent studies have shown that code-switching data (CSD), in which multiple languages are mixed within the same context, can improve cross-lingual transfer and multilingual alignment in large language models (LLMs). However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shunta Asano , Jeonghun Baek , Toshihiko Yamasaki

We present SingSong, a system that generates instrumental music to accompany input vocals, potentially offering musicians and non-musicians alike an intuitive new way to create music featuring their own voice. To accomplish this, we build…

Although high-fidelity speech can be obtained for intralingual speech synthesis, cross-lingual text-to-speech (CTTS) is still far from satisfactory as it is difficult to accurately retain the speaker timbres(i.e. speaker similarity) and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Sen Liu , Yiwei Guo , Chenpeng Du , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

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…

Multilingual speaker verification (SV) remains challenging due to limited cross-lingual data and language-dependent information in speaker embeddings. This paper presents a language-invariant multilingual SV system for the TidyVoice 2026…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Ze Li , Xiaoxiao Miao , Juan Liu , Ming Li

Code-switching speech recognition (CSSR) transcribes speech that switches between multiple languages or dialects within a single sentence. The main challenge in this task is that different languages often have similar pronunciations, making…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Zhiyun Fan , Linhao Dong , Chen Shen , Zhenlin Liang , Jun Zhang , Lu Lu , Zejun Ma

This paper presents FastSVC, a light-weight cross-domain singing voice conversion (SVC) system, which can achieve high conversion performance, with inference speed 4x faster than real-time on CPUs. FastSVC uses Conformer-based phoneme…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Na Hu , Dan Su , Helen Meng

Code-switching describes the practice of using more than one language in the same sentence. In this study, we investigate how to optimize a neural transducer based bilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for code-switching…