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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

Significant strides have been made in creating voice identity representations using speech data. However, the same level of progress has not been achieved for singing voices. To bridge this gap, we suggest a framework for training singer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Bernardo Torres , Stefan Lattner , Gaël Richard

Singing voice generation progresses rapidly, yet evaluating singing quality remains a critical challenge. Human subjective assessment, typically in the form of listening tests, is costly and time consuming, while existing objective metrics…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yuxun Tang , Lan Liu , Wenhao Feng , Yiwen Zhao , Jionghao Han , Yifeng Yu , Jiatong Shi , Qin Jin

Singing voice beat and downbeat tracking posses several applications in automatic music production, analysis and manipulation. Among them, some require real-time processing, such as live performance processing and auto-accompaniment for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Mojtaba Heydari , Ju-Chiang Wang , Zhiyao Duan

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

The lack of a publicly-available large-scale and diverse dataset has long been a significant bottleneck for singing voice applications like Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) and Singing Voice Conversion (SVC). To tackle this problem, we present…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yicheng Gu , Chaoren Wang , Junan Zhang , Xueyao Zhang , Zihao Fang , Haorui He , Zhizheng Wu

A text-independent speaker recognition system relies on successfully encoding speech factors such as vocal pitch, intensity, and timbre to achieve good performance. A majority of such systems are trained and evaluated using spoken voice or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Anurag Chowdhury , Austin Cozzo , Arun Ross

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

Detecting singing-voice in polyphonic instrumental music is critical to music information retrieval. To train a robust vocal detector, a large dataset marked with vocal or non-vocal label at frame-level is essential. However, frame-level…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Yuanbo Hou , Frank K. Soong , Jian Luan , Shengchen Li

Singing voice transcription converts recorded singing audio to musical notation. Sound contamination (such as accompaniment) and lack of annotated data make singing voice transcription an extremely difficult task. We take two approaches to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Xiangming Gu , Wei Zeng , Jianan Zhang , Longshen Ou , Ye Wang

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

Various parametric representations have been proposed to model the speech signal. While the performance of such vocoders is well-known in the context of speech processing, their extrapolation to singing voice synthesis might not be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Onur Babacan , Thomas Drugman , Tuomo Raitio , Daniel Erro , Thierry Dutoit

Singing voices contain much richer information than common voices, including varied vocal and acoustic properties. However, current open-source audio-text datasets for singing voices capture only a narrow range of attributes and lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hyunjong Ok , Jaeho Lee

In the domain of music production and audio processing, the implementation of automatic pitch correction of the singing voice, also known as Auto-Tune, has significantly transformed the landscape of vocal performance. While auto-tuning…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Mahyar Gohari , Paolo Bestagini , Sergio Benini , Nicola Adami

Automatic lyrics to polyphonic audio alignment is a challenging task not only because the vocals are corrupted by background music, but also there is a lack of annotated polyphonic corpus for effective acoustic modeling. In this work, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Chitralekha Gupta , Emre Yılmaz , Haizhou Li

We introduce a data-driven approach to automatic pitch correction of solo singing performances. The proposed approach predicts note-wise pitch shifts from the relationship between the respective spectrograms of the singing and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Sanna Wager , George Tzanetakis , Cheng-i Wang , Minje Kim

Singing voice separation attempts to separate the vocal and instrumental parts of a music recording, which is a fundamental problem in music information retrieval. Recent work on singing voice separation has shown that the low-rank…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-12 Tak-Shing T. Chan , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Recent advancements in generative models have significantly enhanced talking face video generation, yet singing video generation remains underexplored. The differences between human talking and singing limit the performance of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yan Li , Ziya Zhou , Zhiqiang Wang , Wei Xue , Wenhan Luo , Yike Guo

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

Deep learning based singing voice synthesis (SVS) systems have been demonstrated to flexibly generate singing with better qualities, compared to conventional statistical parametric based methods. However, neural systems are generally…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Shuai Guo , Jiatong Shi , Tao Qian , Shinji Watanabe , Qin Jin