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This paper introduces PFlow-VC, a conditional flow matching voice conversion model that leverages fine-grained discrete pitch tokens and target speaker prompt information for expressive voice conversion (VC). Previous VC works primarily…

While recent years have witnessed rapid progress in speech synthesis, open-source singing voice synthesis (SVS) systems still face significant barriers to industrial deployment, particularly in terms of robustness and zero-shot…

End-to-end singing voice synthesis (SVS) model VISinger can achieve better performance than the typical two-stage model with fewer parameters. However, VISinger has several problems: text-to-phase problem, the end-to-end model learns the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yongmao Zhang , Heyang Xue , Hanzhao Li , Lei Xie , Tingwei Guo , Ruixiong Zhang , Caixia Gong

Recently, phonetic posteriorgrams (PPGs) based methods have been quite popular in non-parallel singing voice conversion systems. However, due to the lack of acoustic information in PPGs, style and naturalness of the converted singing voices…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Chao Wang , Zhonghao Li , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Yuan Wan , Yibiao Yu , Zejun Ma

This paper proposes RefXVC, a method for cross-lingual voice conversion (XVC) that leverages reference information to improve conversion performance. Previous XVC works generally take an average speaker embedding to condition the speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Yi Ren , Chen Zhang , Xiang Yin , Haizhou Li

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

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

With the development of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) technique, it's intuitive to construct a voice conversion system by cascading an ASR and TTS system. In this paper, we present a ASR-TTS method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Li-Juan Liu , Yan-Nian Chen , Ya-Jun Hu , Yuan Jiang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

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

Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) remains constrained in practical deployment due to its strong dependence on accurate phoneme-level alignment and manually annotated melody contours, requirements that are resource-intensive and hinder…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Junjie Zheng , Chunbo Hao , Guobin Ma , Xiaoyu Zhang , Gongyu Chen , Chaofan Ding , Zihao Chen , Lei Xie

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

Traditional voice conversion(VC) has been focused on speaker identity conversion for speech with a neutral expression. We note that emotional expression plays an essential role in daily communication, and the emotional style of speech can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Zongyang Du , Berrak Sisman , Kun Zhou , Haizhou Li

Style transfer for out-of-domain (OOD) singing voice synthesis (SVS) focuses on generating high-quality singing voices with unseen styles (such as timbre, emotion, pronunciation, and articulation skills) derived from reference singing voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Yu Zhang , Rongjie Huang , Ruiqi Li , JinZheng He , Yan Xia , Feiyang Chen , Xinyu Duan , Baoxing Huai , Zhou Zhao

Voice conversion (VC) systems can transform audio to mimic another speaker's voice, thereby attacking speaker verification (SV) systems. However, ongoing studies on source speaker verification (SSV) are hindered by limited data availability…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Ze Li , Yuke Lin , Tian Yao , Hongbin Suo , Pengyuan Zhang , Yanzhen Ren , Zexin Cai , Hiromitsu Nishizaki , Ming Li

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

Background sound is an informative form of art that is helpful in providing a more immersive experience in real-application voice conversion (VC) scenarios. However, prior research about VC, mainly focusing on clean voices, pay rare…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Jixun Yao , Yi Lei , Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Ziqian Ning , Lei Xie , Hai Li , Junhui Liu , Danming Xie

This paper proposes a new task called spatial voice conversion, which aims to convert a target voice while preserving spatial information and non-target signals. Traditional voice conversion methods focus on single-channel waveforms,…

Have you ever wondered how a song might sound if performed by a different artist? In this work, we propose SCM-GAN, an end-to-end non-parallel song conversion system powered by generative adversarial and transfer learning that allows users…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Rema Daher , Mohammad Kassem Zein , Julia El Zini , Mariette Awad , Daniel Asmar

Multi-speaker singing voice synthesis is to generate the singing voice sung by different speakers. To generalize to new speakers, previous zero-shot singing adaptation methods obtain the timbre of the target speaker with a fixed-size…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Shoutong Wang , Jinglin Liu , Yi Ren , Zhen Wang , Changliang Xu , Zhou Zhao

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