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While many recent any-to-any voice conversion models succeed in transferring some target speech's style information to the converted speech, they still lack the ability to faithfully reproduce the speaking style of the target speaker. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Hyungseob Lim , Kyungguen Byun , Sunkuk Moon , Erik Visser

This paper introduces the T23 team's system submitted to the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2023. Following the recognition-synthesis framework, our singing conversion model is based on VITS, incorporating four key modules: a prior…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Ziqian Ning , Yuepeng Jiang , Zhichao Wang , Bin Zhang , Lei Xie

We propose a data cleansing method that utilizes a neural analysis and synthesis (NANSY++) framework to train an end-to-end neural diarization model (EEND) for singer diarization. Our proposed model converts song data with choral singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Hokuto Munakata , Ryo Terashima , Yusuke Fujita

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

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

This paper proposes a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model with a musical note position-aware attention mechanism for singing voice synthesis (SVS). A seq2seq modeling approach that can simultaneously perform acoustic and temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Previous approaches in singer identification have used one of monophonic vocal tracks or mixed tracks containing multiple instruments, leaving a semantic gap between these two domains of audio. In this paper, we present a system to learn a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Kyungyun Lee , Juhan Nam

Recent studies in singing voice synthesis have achieved high-quality results leveraging advances in text-to-speech models based on deep neural networks. One of the main issues in training singing voice synthesis models is that they require…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Soonbeom Choi , Juhan Nam

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

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

Diffusion-based singing voice conversion (SVC) models have shown better synthesis quality compared to traditional methods. However, in cross-domain SVC scenarios, where there is a significant disparity in pitch between the source and target…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Bingsong Bai , Fengping Wang , Yingming Gao , Ya Li

Singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to render the target singer's timbre while preserving melody and lyrics. However, existing zero-shot SVC systems remain fragile in real songs due to harmony interference, F0 errors, and the lack of…

Singing voice conversion aims to convert singer's voice from source to target without changing singing content. Parallel training data is typically required for the training of singing voice conversion system, that is however not practical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Junchen Lu , Kun Zhou , Berrak Sisman , Haizhou Li

Building a high-quality singing corpus for a person who is not good at singing is non-trivial, thus making it challenging to create a singing voice synthesizer for this person. Learn2Sing is dedicated to synthesizing the singing voice of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Heyang Xue , Xinsheng Wang , Yongmao Zhang , Lei Xie , Pengcheng Zhu , Mengxiao Bi

With the rapid development of neural network architectures and speech processing models, singing voice synthesis with neural networks is becoming the cutting-edge technique of digital music production. In this work, in order to explore how…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Dengfeng Ke , Yuxing Lu , Xudong Liu , Yanyan Xu , Jing Sun , Cheng-Hao Cai

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

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

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

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