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Voice conversion is the task to transform voice characteristics of source speech while preserving content information. Nowadays, self-supervised representation learning models are increasingly utilized in content extraction. However, in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yimin Deng , Jianzong Wang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

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

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 (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

Self-supervised speech representation learning aims to extract meaningful factors from the speech signal that can later be used across different downstream tasks, such as speech and/or emotion recognition. Existing models, such as HuBERT,…

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) transfers a source singer's timbre to a target while keeping melody and lyrics. The key challenge in any-to-any SVC is adapting unseen speaker timbres to source audio without quality degradation. Existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Wei Chen , Binzhu Sha , Dan Luo , Jing Yang , Zhuo Wang , Fan Fan , Zhiyong Wu

We propose noise-robust voice conversion (VC) which takes into account the recording quality and environment of noisy source speech. Conventional denoising training improves the noise robustness of a VC model by learning noisy-to-clean VC…

Controlling singing style is crucial for achieving an expressive and natural singing voice. Among the various style factors, vibrato plays a key role in conveying emotions and enhancing musical depth. However, modeling vibrato remains…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Joon-Seung Choi , Dong-Min Byun , Hyung-Seok Oh , Seong-Whan Lee

In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

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

A singing voice conversion model converts a song in the voice of an arbitrary source singer to the voice of a target singer. Recently, methods that leverage self-supervised audio representations such as HuBERT and Wav2Vec 2.0 have helped…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Tejas Jayashankar , Jilong Wu , Leda Sari , David Kant , Vimal Manohar , Qing He

Note-level Automatic Singing Voice Transcription (AST) converts singing recordings into note sequences, facilitating the automatic annotation of singing datasets for Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) applications. Current AST methods, however,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Ruiqi Li , Yu Zhang , Yongqi Wang , Zhiqing Hong , Rongjie Huang , Zhou Zhao

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

Self-supervised speech pre-training enables deep neural network models to capture meaningful and disentangled factors from raw waveform signals. The learned universal speech representations can then be used across numerous downstream tasks.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Heitor R. Guimarães , Arthur Pimentel , Anderson R. Avila , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Boxing Chen , Tiago H. Falk

Identity, accent, style, and emotions are essential components of human speech. Voice conversion (VC) techniques process the speech signals of two input speakers and other modalities of auxiliary information such as prompts and emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Xining Song , Zhihua Wei , Rui Wang , Haixiao Hu , Yanxiang Chen , Meng Han

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) system is expected to generate high-fidelity singing voice from given music scores (lyrics, duration and pitch). Recently, diffusion models have performed well in this field. However, sacrificing inference…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yulin Song , Guorui Sang , Jing Yu , Chuangbai Xiao

Noise suppression (NS) algorithms are effective in improving speech quality in many cases. However, aggressive noise suppression can damage the target speech, reducing both speech intelligibility and quality despite removing the noise. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

Voice Conversion (VC) is a technique that aims to transform the non-linguistic information of a source utterance to change the perceived identity of the speaker. While there is a rich literature on VC, most proposed methods are trained and…

Voice conversion technologies have been greatly improved in recent years with the help of deep learning, but their capabilities of producing natural sounding utterances in different conditions remain unclear. In this paper, we gave a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Tzu-hsien Huang , Jheng-hao Lin , Chien-yu Huang , Hung-yi Lee

The deepfake generation of singing vocals is a concerning issue for artists in the music industry. In this work, we propose a singing voice deepfake detection (SVDD) system, which uses noise-variant encodings of open-AI's Whisper model. As…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Falguni Sharma , Priyanka Gupta