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This study presents an innovative Zero-Shot any-to-any Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) method, leveraging a novel clustering-based phoneme representation to effectively separate content, timbre, and singing style. This approach enables…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Wangjin Zhou , Fengrun Zhang , Yiming Liu , Wenhao Guan , Yi Zhao , Tatsuya Kawahara

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

Any-to-any singing voice conversion (SVC) is an interesting audio editing technique, aiming to convert the singing voice of one singer into that of another, given only a few seconds of singing data. However, during the conversion process,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Shihao Chen , Yu Gu , Jie Zhang , Na Li , Rilin Chen , Liping Chen , Lirong Dai

We propose SelfVC, a training strategy to iteratively improve a voice conversion model with self-synthesized examples. Previous efforts on voice conversion focus on factorizing speech into explicitly disentangled representations that…

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) 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

The goal of cross-speaker style transfer in TTS is to transfer a speech style from a source speaker with expressive data to a target speaker with only neutral data. In this context, we propose using a pre-trained singing voice conversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Leonardo B. de M. M. Marques , Lucas H. Ueda , Mário U. Neto , Flávio O. Simões , Fernando Runstein , Bianca Dal Bó , Paula D. P. Costa

In this paper, we propose a model to perform style transfer of speech to singing voice. Contrary to the previous signal processing-based methods, which require high-quality singing templates or phoneme synchronization, we explore a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Shrutina Agarwal , Sriram Ganapathy , Naoya Takahashi

Singing voice conversion is to convert a singer's voice to another one's voice without changing singing content. Recent work shows that unsupervised singing voice conversion can be achieved with an autoencoder-based approach [1]. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chengqi Deng , Chengzhu Yu , Heng Lu , Chao Weng , Dong Yu

This paper proposes singing voice synthesis (SVS) based on frame-level sequence-to-sequence models considering vocal timing deviation. In SVS, it is essential to synchronize the timing of singing with temporal structures represented by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Miku Nishihara , Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Any-to-any singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to transfer a target singer's timbre to other songs using a short voice sample. However many diffusion model based any-to-any SVC methods, which have achieved impressive results, usually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Shihao Chen , Yu Gu , Jianwei Cui , Jie Zhang , Rilin Chen , Lirong Dai

This paper presents our systems (denoted as T13) for the singing voice conversion challenge (SVCC) 2023. For both in-domain and cross-domain English singing voice conversion (SVC) tasks (Task 1 and Task 2), we adopt a recognition-synthesis…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Ryuichi Yamamoto , Reo Yoneyama , Lester Phillip Violeta , Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Toda

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

We present the latest iteration of the voice conversion challenge (VCC) series, a bi-annual scientific event aiming to compare and understand different voice conversion (VC) systems based on a common dataset. This year we shifted our focus…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Wen-Chin Huang , Lester Phillip Violeta , Songxiang Liu , Jiatong Shi , Tomoki Toda

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

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

Voice conversion (VC) models have demonstrated impressive few-shot conversion quality on the clean, native speech populations they're trained on. However, when source or target speech accents, background noise conditions, or microphone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Avani Tanna , Michael Saxon , Amr El Abbadi , William Yang Wang

Significant strides have been made in creating voice identity representations using speech data. However, the same level of progress has not been achieved for singing voices. To bridge this gap, we suggest a framework for training singer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Bernardo Torres , Stefan Lattner , Gaël Richard

Pitch shifting has been an essential feature in singing voice production. However, conventional signal processing approaches exhibit well known trade offs such as formant shifts and robotic coloration that becomes more severe at larger…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yunyi Liu , Taketo Akama

There has been a growing interest in using end-to-end acoustic models for singing voice synthesis (SVS). Typically, these models require an additional vocoder to transform the generated acoustic features into the final waveform. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yuning Wu , Yifeng Yu , Jiatong Shi , Tao Qian , Qin Jin