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Singing voice correction (SVC) is an appealing application for amateur singers. Commercial products automate SVC by snapping pitch contours to equal-tempered scales, which could lead to deadpan modifications. Together with the neglect of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Yin-Jyun Luo , Yuen-Jen Lin , Li Su

End-to-end singing voice synthesis (SVS) is attractive due to the avoidance of pre-aligned data. However, the auto learned alignment of singing voice with lyrics is difficult to match the duration information in musical score, which will…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Tao Wang , Ruibo Fu , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Zhengqi Wen

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

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

In singing voice synthesis (SVS), generating singing voices from musical scores faces challenges due to limited data availability. This study proposes a unique strategy to address the data scarcity in SVS. We employ an existing singing…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Jiatong Shi , Yueqian Lin , Xinyi Bai , Keyi Zhang , Yuning Wu , Yuxun Tang , Yifeng Yu , Qin Jin , Shinji Watanabe

The present paper describes 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 2020-04-23 Kazuhiro Nakamura , Shinji Takaki , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Singing voice conversion is to convert the source singing voice into the target singing voice except for the content. Currently, flow-based models can complete the task of voice conversion, but they struggle to effectively extract latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Hui Li , Hongyu Wang , Zhijin Chen , Bohan Sun , Bo Li

There has been a growing interest in using end-to-end acoustic models for singing voice synthesis (SVS). Typically, these models require an additional vocoder to transform the generated acoustic features into the final waveform. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yuning Wu , Yifeng Yu , Jiatong Shi , Tao Qian , Qin Jin

This paper proposes a controllable end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) system to control the speaking speed (speed-controllable TTS; SCTTS) of synthesized speech with sentence-level speaking-rate value as an additional input. The speaking-rate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Jae-Sung Bae , Hanbin Bae , Young-Sun Joo , Junmo Lee , Gyeong-Hoon Lee , Hoon-Young Cho

In this paper, we present Period Singer, a novel end-to-end singing voice synthesis (SVS) model that utilizes variational inference for periodic and aperiodic components, aimed at producing natural-sounding waveforms. Recent end-to-end SVS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Taewoo Kim , Choongsang Cho , Young Han Lee

Speech synthesis has recently seen significant improvements in fidelity, driven by the advent of neural vocoders and neural prosody generators. However, these systems lack intuitive user controls over prosody, making them unable to rectify…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Max Morrison , Zeyu Jin , Justin Salamon , Nicholas J. Bryan , Gautham J. Mysore

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-to-singing voice conversion (STS) task always suffers from data scarcity, because it requires paired speech and singing data. Compounding this issue are the challenges of content-pitch alignment and the suboptimal quality of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Ruiqi Li , Rongjie Huang , Yongqi Wang , Zhiqing Hong , Zhou Zhao

In this paper, we develop a new multi-singer Chinese neural singing voice synthesis (SVS) system named WeSinger. To improve the accuracy and naturalness of synthesized singing voice, we design several specifical modules and techniques: 1) A…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zewang Zhang , Yibin Zheng , Xinhui Li , Li Lu

Singing voice synthesis is a generative task that involves multi-dimensional control of the singing model, including lyrics, pitch, and duration, and includes the timbre of the singer and singing skills such as vibrato. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

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

This paper presents ByteSing, a Chinese singing voice synthesis (SVS) system based on duration allocated Tacotron-like acoustic models and WaveRNN neural vocoders. Different from the conventional SVS models, the proposed ByteSing employs…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Yu Gu , Xiang Yin , Yonghui Rao , Yuan Wan , Benlai Tang , Yang Zhang , Jitong Chen , Yuxuan Wang , Zejun Ma

Customizable multilingual zero-shot singing voice synthesis (SVS) has various potential applications in music composition and short video dubbing. However, existing SVS models overly depend on phoneme and note boundary annotations, limiting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Yu Zhang , Wenxiang Guo , Changhao Pan , Dongyu Yao , Zhiyuan Zhu , Ziyue Jiang , Yuhan Wang , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

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…

This study presents an innovative Zero-Shot any-to-any Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) method, leveraging a novel clustering-based phoneme representation to effectively separate content, timbre, and singing style. This approach enables…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Wangjin Zhou , Fengrun Zhang , Yiming Liu , Wenhao Guan , Yi Zhao , Tatsuya Kawahara