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Voice conversion aims to convert source speech into a target voice using recordings of the target speaker as a reference. Newer models are producing increasingly realistic output. But what happens when models are fed with non-standard data,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Matthew Baas , Herman Kamper

In this paper, we propose computationally efficient and high-quality methods for statistical voice conversion (VC) with direct waveform modification based on spectral differentials. The conventional method with a minimum-phase filter…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Takaaki Saeki , Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Speech-to-singing voice conversion (STS) task always suffers from data scarcity, because it requires paired speech and singing data. Compounding this issue are the challenges of content-pitch alignment and the suboptimal quality of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Ruiqi Li , Rongjie Huang , Yongqi Wang , Zhiqing Hong , Zhou Zhao

This paper presents a new voice conversion model capable of transforming both speaking and singing voices. It addresses key challenges in current systems, such as conveying emotions, managing pronunciation and accent changes, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Sowmya Cheripally

The present paper describes singing voice synthesis based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Singing voice synthesis systems based on deep neural networks (DNNs) are currently being proposed and are improving the naturalness of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Kazuhiro Nakamura , Shinji Takaki , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

This paper presents the T02 team's system for the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2023 (SVCC2023). Our system entails a VITS-based SVC model, incorporating three modules: a feature extractor, a voice converter, and a post-processor.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yiquan Zhou , Meng Chen , Yi Lei , Jihua Zhu , Weifeng Zhao

Zero-shot singing voice synthesis (SVS) with style transfer and style control aims to generate high-quality singing voices with unseen timbres and styles (including singing method, emotion, rhythm, technique, and pronunciation) from audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Yu Zhang , Ziyue Jiang , Ruiqi Li , Changhao Pan , Jinzheng He , Rongjie Huang , Chuxin Wang , Zhou Zhao

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…

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

The goal of voice conversion is to transform the speech of a source speaker to sound like that of a reference speaker while preserving the original content. A key challenge is to extract disentangled linguistic content from the source and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jaehun Kim , Ji-Hoon Kim , Yeunju Choi , Tan Dat Nguyen , Seongkyu Mun , Joon Son Chung

This paper presents the submission of the S4 team to the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2025 (SVCC2025)-a novel singing style conversion system that advances fine-grained style conversion and control within in-domain settings. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhetao Hu , Yiquan Zhou , Wenyu Wang , Zhiyu Wu , Xin Gao , Jihua Zhu

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

The lack of a publicly-available large-scale and diverse dataset has long been a significant bottleneck for singing voice applications like Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) and Singing Voice Conversion (SVC). To tackle this problem, we present…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yicheng Gu , Chaoren Wang , Junan Zhang , Xueyao Zhang , Zihao Fang , Haorui He , Zhizheng Wu

Although voice conversion (VC) systems have shown a remarkable ability to transfer voice style, existing methods still have an inaccurate pitch and low speaker adaptation quality. To address these challenges, we introduce Diff-HierVC, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Ha-Yeong Choi , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) aims to generate natural and expressive singing waveforms from symbolic musical scores. In cVAE-based SVS, however, a mismatch arises because the decoder is trained with latent representations inferred from…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Minhyeok Yun , Yong-Hoon Choi

Adversarial waveform generation has been a popular approach as the backend of singing voice conversion (SVC) to generate high-quality singing audio. However, the instability of GAN also leads to other problems, such as pitch jitters and U/V…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Haohan Guo , Zhiping Zhou , Fanbo Meng , Kai Liu

Recent singing-voice-synthesis (SVS) methods have achieved remarkable audio quality and naturalness, yet they lack the capability to control the style attributes of the synthesized singing explicitly. We propose Prompt-Singer, the first SVS…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yongqi Wang , Ruofan Hu , Rongjie Huang , Zhiqing Hong , Ruiqi Li , Wenrui Liu , Fuming You , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

Controllable Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) aims to generate expressive singing voices reflecting user intent. While recent SVS systems achieve high audio quality, most rely on probabilistic modeling, limiting precise control over attributes…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yerin Ryu , Inseop Shin , Chanwoo Kim

One-shot voice conversion aims to change the timbre of any source speech to match that of the unseen target speaker with only one speech sample. Existing methods face difficulties in satisfactory speech representation disentanglement and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Pengcheng Li , Jianzong Wang , Xulong Zhang , Yong Zhang , Jing Xiao , Ning Cheng

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