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Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer timbre from a source speaker to any unseen target speaker while preserving linguistic content. Growing application scenarios demand models with streaming inference capabilities. This has…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Guobin Ma , Jixun Yao , Ziqian Ning , Yuepeng Jiang , Lingxin Xiong , Lei Xie , Pengcheng Zhu

We propose a singing voice synthesis (SVS) method for a more unified ensemble singing voice by modeling interactions between singers. Most existing SVS methods aim to synthesize a solo voice, and do not consider interactions between…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Hiroaki Hyodo , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Tomohiko Nakamura , Junya Koguchi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Melody preservation is crucial in singing voice conversion (SVC). However, in many scenarios, audio is often accompanied with background music (BGM), which can cause audio distortion and interfere with the extraction of melody and other key…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Wei Chen , Binzhu Sha , Jing Yang , Zhuo Wang , Fan Fan , Zhiyong Wu

Speech-based machine learning systems are sensitive to noise, complicating reliable deployment in emotion recognition and voice pathology detection. We evaluate the robustness of a hybrid quantum machine learning model, quanvolutional…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ha Tran , Bipasha Kashyap , Pubudu N. Pathirana

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer the timbre from the source speaker to an arbitrary unseen speaker while preserving the original linguistic content. Despite recent advancements in zero-shot VC using language model-based or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Jixun Yao , Yuguang Yang , Yu Pan , Ziqian Ning , Jiaohao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Xie

Recent advancements in deep learning led to human-level performance in single-speaker speech synthesis. However, there are still limitations in terms of speech quality when generalizing those systems into multiple-speaker models especially…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Dipjyoti Paul , Yannis Pantazis , Yannis Stylianou

Recent advances in singing voice synthesis (SVS) have attracted substantial attention from both academia and industry. With the advent of large language models and novel generative paradigms, producing controllable, high-fidelity singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Changhao Pan , Dongyu Yao , Yu Zhang , Wenxiang Guo , Jingyu Lu , Zhiyuan Zhu , Zhou Zhao

The diffusion-based Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) methods have achieved remarkable performances, producing natural audios with high similarity to the target timbre. However, the iterative sampling process results in slow inference speed,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-04 Yiwen Lu , Zhen Ye , Wei Xue , Xu Tan , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Speaker Verification (SV) systems involve mainly two individual stages: feature extraction and classification. In this paper, we explore these two modules with the aim of improving the performance of a speaker verification system under…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Kerlos Atia Abdalmalak , Ascensión Gallardo-Antol'in

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

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

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

Voice conversion has gained increasing popularity in many applications of speech synthesis. The idea is to change the voice identity from one speaker into another while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Many voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Bac Nguyen , Fabien Cardinaux

Any-to-any voice conversion aims to transform source speech into a target voice with just a few examples of the target speaker as a reference. Recent methods produce convincing conversions, but at the cost of increased complexity -- making…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Matthew Baas , Benjamin van Niekerk , Herman Kamper

This paper presents Sinsy, a deep neural network (DNN)-based singing voice synthesis (SVS) system. In recent years, DNNs have been utilized in statistical parametric SVS systems, and DNN-based SVS systems have demonstrated better…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

The present paper describes a 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 2019-06-26 Kazuhiro Nakamura , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

This paper proposes a voice conversion (VC) method using sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq or S2S) learning, which flexibly converts not only the voice characteristics but also the pitch contour and duration of input speech. The proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Damian Kwasny , Takuhiro Kaneko , Nobukatsu Hojo

Any-to-any singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to transfer a target singer's timbre to other songs using a short voice sample. However many diffusion model based any-to-any SVC methods, which have achieved impressive results, usually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Shihao Chen , Yu Gu , Jianwei Cui , Jie Zhang , Rilin Chen , Lirong Dai

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transform source speech into arbitrary unseen target voice while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Recent VC methods have made significant progress, but semantic losses in the decoupling…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Linhan Ma , Xinfa Zhu , Yuanjun Lv , Zhichao Wang , Ziqian Wang , Wendi He , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Xie

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) is a task that aims to generate audio signals according to musical scores and lyrics. With its multifaceted nature concerning music and language, producing singing voices indistinguishable from that of human…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Yin-Ping Cho , Fu-Rong Yang , Yung-Chuan Chang , Ching-Ting Cheng , Xiao-Han Wang , Yi-Wen Liu