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This paper presents an integrated system that transforms symbolic music scores into expressive piano performance audio. By combining a Transformer-based Expressive Performance Rendering (EPR) model with a fine-tuned neural MIDI synthesiser,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jingjing Tang , Erica Cooper , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , George Fazekas

Speech synthesis and music audio generation from symbolic input differ in many aspects but share some similarities. In this study, we investigate how text-to-speech synthesis techniques can be used for piano MIDI-to-audio synthesis tasks.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Erica Cooper , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi

Musical expression requires control of both what notes are played, and how they are performed. Conventional audio synthesizers provide detailed expressive controls, but at the cost of realism. Black-box neural audio synthesis and…

With the similarity between music and speech synthesis from symbolic input and the rapid development of text-to-speech (TTS) techniques, it is worthwhile to explore ways to improve the MIDI-to-audio performance by borrowing from TTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xuan Shi , Erica Cooper , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Shrikanth Narayanan

We introduce a language modeling approach for text to speech synthesis (TTS). Specifically, we train a neural codec language model (called Vall-E) using discrete codes derived from an off-the-shelf neural audio codec model, and regard TTS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Chengyi Wang , Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Ziqiang Zhang , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Zhuo Chen , Yanqing Liu , Huaming Wang , Jinyu Li , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Furu Wei

We explore the use of neural synthesis for acoustic guitar from string-wise MIDI input. We propose four different systems and compare them with both objective metrics and subjective evaluation against natural audio and a sample-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Nicolas Jonason , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Lauri Juvela , Bob L. T. Sturm , Junichi Yamagishi

We introduce MIDI-VAE, a neural network model based on Variational Autoencoders that is capable of handling polyphonic music with multiple instrument tracks, as well as modeling the dynamics of music by incorporating note durations and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Gino Brunner , Andres Konrad , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

Various applications of voice synthesis have been developed independently despite the fact that they generate "voice" as output in common. In addition, the majority of voice synthesis models currently rely on annotated audio data, but it is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Rongjie Huang , Chunlei Zhang , Yongqi Wang , Dongchao Yang , Luping Liu , Zhenhui Ye , Ziyue Jiang , Chao Weng , Zhou Zhao , Dong Yu

While end-to-end lyrics-to-song models offer convenience for casual users, professional songwriters require score-to-song systems that allow them to retain authorship over the core melody. However, existing score-to-song methods are limited…

The automated creation of accurate musical notation from an expressive human performance is a fundamental task in computational musicology. To this end, we present an end-to-end deep learning approach that constructs detailed musical scores…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tim Beyer , Angela Dai

Music performance synthesis aims to synthesize a musical score into a natural performance. In this paper, we borrow recent advances in text-to-speech synthesis and present the Deep Performer -- a novel system for score-to-audio music…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Hao-Wen Dong , Cong Zhou , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Julian McAuley

Expressive speech synthesis models are trained by adding corpora with diverse speakers, various emotions, and different speaking styles to the dataset, in order to control various characteristics of speech and generate the desired voice. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Daegyeom Kim , Seongho Hong , Yong-Hoon Choi

This work presents a generative neural network that's able to generate expressive piano performance in MIDI format. The musical expressivity is reflected by vivid micro-timing, rich polyphonic texture, varied dynamics, and the sustain pedal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jingwei Liu

Audio-driven bimanual piano motion generation requires precise modeling of complex musical structures and dynamic cross-hand coordination. However, existing methods often rely on acoustic-only representations lacking symbolic priors, employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Xuan Wang , Kai Ruan , Jiayi Han , Kaiyue Zhou , Gaoang Wang

We present MELLE, a novel continuous-valued token based language modeling approach for text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). MELLE autoregressively generates continuous mel-spectrogram frames directly from text condition, bypassing the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Lingwei Meng , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Sanyuan Chen , Bing Han , Shujie Hu , Yanqing Liu , Jinyu Li , Sheng Zhao , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng , Furu Wei

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

Motivated by the state-of-art psychological research, we note that a piano performance transcribed with existing Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) methods cannot be successfully resynthesized without affecting the artistic content of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Federico Simonetta , Stavros Ntalampiras , Federico Avanzini

Recent MIDI-to-audio synthesis methods using deep neural networks have successfully generated high-quality, expressive instrumental tracks. However, these methods require MIDI annotations for supervised training, limiting the diversity of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Osamu Take , Taketo Akama

In this paper, we propose and investigate the use of neural audio codec language models for the automatic generation of sample-based musical instruments based on text or reference audio prompts. Our approach extends a generative audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Shahan Nercessian , Johannes Imort , Ninon Devis , Frederik Blang

Expressive music synthesis (EMS) for violin performance is a challenging task due to the disagreement among music performers in the interpretation of expressive musical terms (EMTs), scarcity of labeled recordings, and limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Tzu-Yun Hung , Jui-Te Wu , Yu-Chia Kuo , Yo-Wei Hsiao , Ting-Wei Lin , Li Su
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