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Existing multi-timbre transcription models struggle with generalization beyond pre-trained instruments, rigid source-count constraints, and high computational demands that hinder deployment on low-resource devices. We address these…

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We propose a semi-supervised singing synthesizer, which is able to learn new voices from audio data only, without any annotations such as phonetic segmentation. Our system is an encoder-decoder model with two encoders, linguistic and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Jordi Bonada , Merlijn Blaauw

With recent advances in speech synthesis, synthetic data is becoming a viable alternative to real data for training speech recognition models. However, machine learning with synthetic data is not trivial due to the gap between the synthetic…

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We explore the use of neural synthesis for acoustic guitar from string-wise MIDI input. We propose four different systems and compare them with both objective metrics and subjective evaluation against natural audio and a sample-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Nicolas Jonason , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Lauri Juvela , Bob L. T. Sturm , Junichi Yamagishi

Style transfer of polyphonic music recordings is a challenging task when considering the modeling of diverse, imaginative, and reasonable music pieces in the style different from their original one. To achieve this, learning stable…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Chien-Yu Lu , Min-Xin Xue , Chia-Che Chang , Che-Rung Lee , Li Su

Automatic transcription of guitar strumming is an underrepresented and challenging task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR), particularly for extracting both strumming directions and chord progressions from audio signals. While existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Sebastian Murgul , Johannes Schimper , Michael Heizmann

Synthetic data generated by text-to-speech (TTS) systems can be used to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in low-resource or domain mismatch tasks. It has been shown that TTS-generated outputs still do not have the same…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Nick Rossenbach , Benedikt Hilmes , Ralf Schlüter

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) has advanced significantly for the piano, but transcription for the guitar remains limited due to several key challenges. Existing systems fail to detect and annotate expressive techniques (e.g., slides,…

Breakthroughs in text-to-music generation models are transforming the creative landscape, equipping musicians with innovative tools for composition and experimentation like never before. However, controlling the generation process to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Teysir Baoueb , Xiaoyu Bie , Xi Wang , Gaël Richard

Self-supervision methods learn representations by solving pretext tasks that do not require human-generated labels, alleviating the need for time-consuming annotations. These methods have been applied in computer vision, natural language…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Giovana Morais , Matthew E. P. Davies , Marcelo Queiroz , Magdalena Fuentes

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

This paper addresses the problem of efficiently jointly representing a non-stationary multicomponent signal in time and frequency. We introduce a novel enhancement of the time-reassigned synchrosqueezing method designed to compute sharpened…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Dominique Fourer , François Auger

Intuitive control of synthesis processes is an ongoing challenge within the domain of auditory perception and cognition. Previous works on sound modelling combined with psychophysical tests have enabled our team to develop a synthesizer…

Recently, there have been significant advancements in voice conversion, resulting in high-quality performance. However, there are still two critical challenges in this field. Firstly, current voice conversion methods have limited robustness…

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Voice directors often iteratively refine voice actors' performances by providing feedback to achieve the desired outcome. While this iterative feedback-based refinement process is important in actual recordings, it has been overlooked in…

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Existing deep learning based HDRTV reconstruction methods assume one kind of tone mapping operators (TMOs) as the degradation procedure to synthesize SDRTV-HDRTV pairs for supervised training. In this paper, we argue that, although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Zhen Cheng , Tao Wang , Yong Li , Fenglong Song , Chang Chen , Zhiwei Xiong

Speech separation seeks to separate individual speech signals from a speech mixture. Typically, most separation models are trained on synthetic data due to the unavailability of target reference in real-world cocktail party scenarios. As a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Wupeng Wang , Zexu Pan , Xinke Li , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

A central goal in automatic music transcription is to detect individual note events in music recordings. An important variant is instrument-dependent music transcription where methods can use calibration data for the instruments in use.…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Sebastian Ewert , Mark B. Sandler

Digital PID control requires a differencing operation to implement the D gain. In order to suppress the effects of noisy data, the traditional approach is to filter the data, where the frequency response of the filter is adjusted manually…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Shashank Verma , Brian Lai , Dennis S. Bernstein

Despite noise suppression being a mature area in signal processing, it remains highly dependent on fine tuning of estimator algorithms and parameters. In this paper, we demonstrate a hybrid DSP/deep learning approach to noise suppression. A…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Jean-Marc Valin