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Modeling the natural contour of fundamental frequency (F0) plays a critical role in music audio synthesis. However, transcribing and managing multiple F0 contours in polyphonic music is challenging, and explicit F0 contour modeling has not…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Daewoong Kim , Hao-Wen Dong , Dasaem Jeong

Despite recent advances, synthetic voices often lack expressiveness due to limited prosody control in commercial text-to-speech (TTS) systems. We introduce the first end-to-end pipeline that inserts Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Nassima Ould Ouali , Awais Hussain Sani , Ruben Bueno , Jonah Dauvet , Tim Luka Horstmann , Eric Moulines

This project presents an AI-based system for tone replication in music production, focusing on predicting EQ parameter settings directly from audio features. Unlike traditional audio-to-audio methods, our approach outputs interpretable…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Song-Ze Yu

Piano cover generation aims to automatically transform a pop song into a piano arrangement. While numerous deep learning approaches have been proposed, existing models often fail to maintain structural consistency with the original song,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Tse-Yang Chen , Yuh-Jzer Joung

This paper presents a novel approach to neural instrument sound synthesis using a two-stage semi-supervised learning framework capable of generating pitch-accurate, high-quality music samples from an expressive timbre latent space. Existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Christian Limberg , Fares Schulz , Zhe Zhang , Stefan Weinzierl

The expressive quality of synthesized speech for audiobooks is limited by generalized model architecture and unbalanced style distribution in the training data. To address these issues, in this paper, we propose a self-supervised style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Xueyuan Chen , Xi Wang , Shaofei Zhang , Lei He , Zhiyong Wu , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

Transformers and variational autoencoders (VAE) have been extensively employed for symbolic (e.g., MIDI) domain music generation. While the former boast an impressive capability in modeling long sequences, the latter allow users to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Shih-Lun Wu , Yi-Hsuan Yang

This paper aims to synthesize the target speaker's speech with desired speaking style and emotion by transferring the style and emotion from reference speech recorded by other speakers. We address this challenging problem with a two-stage…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Xinfa Zhu , Yi Lei , Kun Song , Yongmao Zhang , Tao Li , Lei Xie

Capturing intricate and subtle variations in human expressiveness in music performance using computational approaches is challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for reconstructing human expressiveness in piano performance…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingjing Tang , Geraint Wiggins , Gyorgy Fazekas

Automatic Music Transcription has seen significant progress in recent years by training custom deep neural networks on large datasets. However, these models have required extensive domain-specific design of network architectures,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Curtis Hawthorne , Ian Simon , Rigel Swavely , Ethan Manilow , Jesse Engel

The single-speaker singing voice synthesis (SVS) usually underperforms at pitch values that are out of the singer's vocal range or associated with limited training samples. Based on our previous work, this work proposes a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Shaohuan Zhou , Xu Li , Zhiyong Wu , Ying Shan , Helen Meng

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a desired speaker's voice from a multi-speaker mixture using auxiliary information such as a reference utterance. Although recent advances in diffusion and flow-matching models have improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Riki Shimizu , Xilin Jiang , Nima Mesgarani

Synthesizing performing guitar sound is a highly challenging task due to the polyphony and high variability in expression. Recently, deep generative models have shown promising results in synthesizing expressive polyphonic instrument sounds…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Hounsu Kim , Soonbeom Choi , Juhan Nam

Algorithms for automatic piano transcription have improved dramatically in recent years due to new datasets and modeling techniques. Recent developments have focused primarily on adapting new neural network architectures, such as the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Drew Edwards , Simon Dixon , Emmanouil Benetos , Akira Maezawa , Yuta Kusaka

In this paper, we present a neural network approach for synchronizing audio recordings of human piano performances with their corresponding loosely aligned MIDI files. The task is addressed using a Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Sebastian Murgul , Moritz Reiser , Michael Heizmann , Christoph Seibert

We introduce an extensive new dataset of MIDI files, created by transcribing audio recordings of piano performances into their constituent notes. The data pipeline we use is multi-stage, employing a language model to autonomously crawl and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Louis Bradshaw , Simon Colton

We present a novel system that gets as an input video frames of a musician playing the piano and generates the music for that video. Generation of music from visual cues is a challenging problem and it is not clear whether it is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Kun Su , Xiulong Liu , Eli Shlizerman

Symbolic music research plays a crucial role in music-related machine learning, but MIDI data can be complex for those without musical expertise. To address this issue, we present MidiTok Visualizer, a web application designed to facilitate…

Emotion alignment between music and palettes is crucial for effective multimedia content, yet misalignment creates confusion that weakens the intended message. However, existing methods often generate only a single dominant color, missing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jiayun Hu , Yueyi He , Tianyi Liang , Changbo Wang , Chenhui Li

While piano music transcription models have shown high performance for solo piano recordings, their performance degrades when applied to ensemble recordings. This study aims to analyze the impact of different data augmentation methods on…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Hyemi Kim , Jiyun Park , Taegyun Kwon , Dasaem Jeong , Juhan Nam