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Any-to-any singing voice conversion (SVC) is confronted with the challenge of ``timbre leakage'' issue caused by inadequate disentanglement between the content and the speaker timbre. To address this issue, this study introduces NeuCoSVC, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Binzhu Sha , Xu Li , Zhiyong Wu , Ying Shan , Helen Meng

Recent progress in deep generative models has improved the quality of neural vocoders in speech domain. However, generating a high-quality singing voice remains challenging due to a wider variety of musical expressions in pitch, loudness,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Naoya Takahashi , Mayank Kumar , Singh , Yuki Mitsufuji

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

The iterative sampling procedure employed by diffusion models (DMs) often leads to significant inference latency. To address this, we propose Stochastic Consistency Distillation (SCott) to enable accelerated text-to-image generation, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hongjian Liu , Qingsong Xie , TianXiang Ye , Zhijie Deng , Chen Chen , Shixiang Tang , Xueyang Fu , Haonan Lu , Zheng-jun Zha

Consistency models imitate the multi-step sampling of score-based diffusion in a single forward pass of a neural network. They can be learned in two ways: consistency distillation and consistency training. The former relies on the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Thibaut Issenhuth , Sangchul Lee , Ludovic Dos Santos , Jean-Yves Franceschi , Chansoo Kim , Alain Rakotomamonjy

Diffusion-based voice conversion (VC) techniques such as VoiceGrad have attracted interest because of their high VC performance in terms of speech quality and speaker similarity. However, a notable limitation is the slow inference caused by…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

We propose a highly controllable voice manipulation system that can perform any-to-any voice conversion (VC) and prosody modulation simultaneously. State-of-the-art VC systems can transfer sentence-level characteristics such as speaker,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Kyungguen Byun , Sunkuk Moon , Erik Visser

Voice conversion is an increasingly popular technology, and the growing number of real-time applications requires models with streaming conversion capabilities. Unlike typical (non-streaming) voice conversion, which can leverage the entire…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Ziqian Ning , Yuepeng Jiang , Pengcheng Zhu , Jixun Yao , Shuai Wang , Lei Xie , Mengxiao Bi

Many robotic systems, such as mobile manipulators or quadrotors, cannot be equipped with high-end GPUs due to space, weight, and power constraints. These constraints prevent these systems from leveraging recent developments in visuomotor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Aaditya Prasad , Kevin Lin , Jimmy Wu , Linqi Zhou , Jeannette Bohg

We propose a speech enhancement system that combines speaker-agnostic speech restoration with voice conversion (VC) to obtain a studio-level quality speech signal. While voice conversion models are typically used to change speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

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

Voice conversion is a common speech synthesis task which can be solved in different ways depending on a particular real-world scenario. The most challenging one often referred to as one-shot many-to-many voice conversion consists in copying…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Vadim Popov , Ivan Vovk , Vladimir Gogoryan , Tasnima Sadekova , Mikhail Kudinov , Jiansheng Wei

In real-world voice conversion applications, environmental noise in source speech and user demands for expressive output pose critical challenges. Traditional ASR-based methods ensure noise robustness but suppress prosody richness, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Yuepeng Jiang , Ziqian Ning , Shuai Wang , Chengjia Wang , Mengxiao Bi , Pengcheng Zhu , Zhonghua Fu , Lei Xie

In voice conversion (VC) applications, diffusion and flow-matching models have exhibited exceptional speech quality and speaker similarity performances. However, they are limited by slow conversion owing to their iterative inference.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

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

Free-form, text-based audio editing remains a persistent challenge, despite progress in inversion-based neural methods. Current approaches rely on slow inversion procedures, limiting their practicality. We present a virtual-consistency…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Matthieu Cervera , Francesco Paissan , Mirco Ravanelli , Cem Subakan

This paper proposes a non-autoregressive extension of our previously proposed sequence-to-sequence (S2S) model-based voice conversion (VC) methods. S2S model-based VC methods have attracted particular attention in recent years for their…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Takuhiro Kaneko

In this study, we present SingVisio, an interactive visual analysis system that aims to explain the diffusion model used in singing voice conversion. SingVisio provides a visual display of the generation process in diffusion models,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Liumeng Xue , Chaoren Wang , Mingxuan Wang , Xueyao Zhang , Jun Han , Zhizheng Wu

We present S$^2$Voice, the winning system of the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge (SVCC) 2025 for both the in-domain and zero-shot singing style conversion tracks. Built on the strong two-stage Vevo baseline, S$^2$Voice advances style…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Ziqian Wang , Xianjun Xia , Chuanzeng Huang , Lei Xie

Conventional singing voice conversion (SVC) methods often suffer from operating in high-resolution audio owing to a high dimensionality of data. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical representation learning that enables the learning of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Naoya Takahashi , Mayank Kumar Singh , Yuki Mitsufuji