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In this paper, we propose a model to perform style transfer of speech to singing voice. Contrary to the previous signal processing-based methods, which require high-quality singing templates or phoneme synchronization, we explore a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Shrutina Agarwal , Sriram Ganapathy , Naoya Takahashi

Style voice conversion aims to transform the speaking style of source speech into a desired style while keeping the original speaker's identity. However, previous style voice conversion approaches primarily focus on well-defined domains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-09 Xinfa Zhu , Lei He , Yujia Xiao , Xi Wang , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao , Lei Xie

We propose SelfVC, a training strategy to iteratively improve a voice conversion model with self-synthesized examples. Previous efforts on voice conversion focus on factorizing speech into explicitly disentangled representations that…

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

StreamVoice has recently pushed the boundaries of zero-shot voice conversion (VC) in the streaming domain. It uses a streamable language model (LM) with a context-aware approach to convert semantic features from automatic speech recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Zhichao Wang , Yuanzhe Chen , Xinsheng Wang , Lei Xie , Yuping Wang

Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) has emerged as a significant subfield of Voice Conversion (VC), enabling the transformation of one singer's voice into another while preserving musical elements such as melody, rhythm, and timbre. Traditional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yubo Huang , Xin Lai , Muyang Ye , Anran Zhu , Zixi Wang , Jingzehua Xu , Shuai Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhou , Weijie Niu

Any-to-any voice conversion (VC) aims to convert the timbre of utterances from and to any speakers seen or unseen during training. Various any-to-any VC approaches have been proposed like AUTOVC, AdaINVC, and FragmentVC. AUTOVC, and AdaINVC…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Jheng-hao Lin , Yist Y. Lin , Chung-Ming Chien , Hung-yi Lee

Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) aims to generate singing voices of high fidelity and expressiveness. Conventional SVS systems usually utilize an acoustic model to transform a music score into acoustic features, followed by a vocoder to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 Jianwei Cui , Yu Gu , Shihao Chen , Jie Zhang , Liping Chen , Lirong Dai

Voice conversion is an increasingly popular technology, and the growing number of real-time applications requires models with streaming conversion capabilities. Unlike typical (non-streaming) voice conversion, which can leverage the entire…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Ziqian Ning , Yuepeng Jiang , Pengcheng Zhu , Jixun Yao , Shuai Wang , Lei Xie , Mengxiao Bi

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

In addition to conveying the linguistic content from source speech to converted speech, maintaining the speaking style of source speech also plays an important role in the voice conversion (VC) task, which is essential in many scenarios…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Zhichao Wang , Xinsheng Wang , Qicong Xie , Tao Li , Lei Xie , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang

We introduce HybridVC, a voice conversion (VC) framework built upon a pre-trained conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE) that combines the strengths of a latent model with contrastive learning. HybridVC supports text and audio prompts,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Xinlei Niu , Jing Zhang , Charles Patrick Martin

Typically, singing voice conversion (SVC) depends on an embedding vector, extracted from either a speaker lookup table (LUT) or a speaker recognition network (SRN), to model speaker identity. However, singing contains more expressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Xu Li , Shansong Liu , Ying Shan

This paper proposes singing voice synthesis (SVS) based on frame-level sequence-to-sequence models considering vocal timing deviation. In SVS, it is essential to synchronize the timing of singing with temporal structures represented by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Miku Nishihara , Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

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 this paper, we propose VISinger, a complete end-to-end high-quality singing voice synthesis (SVS) system that directly generates audio waveform from lyrics and musical score. Our approach is inspired by VITS, which adopts VAE-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-25 Yongmao Zhang , Jian Cong , Heyang Xue , Lei Xie , Pengcheng Zhu , Mengxiao Bi

Singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to convert the voice of one singer to that of other singers while keeping the singing content and melody. On top of recent voice conversion works, we propose a novel model to steadily convert songs while…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Zhonghao Li , Benlai Tang , Xiang Yin , Yuan Wan , Ling Xu , Chen Shen , Zejun Ma

The goal of voice conversion is to transform the speech of a source speaker to sound like that of a reference speaker while preserving the original content. A key challenge is to extract disentangled linguistic content from the source and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jaehun Kim , Ji-Hoon Kim , Yeunju Choi , Tan Dat Nguyen , Seongkyu Mun , Joon Son Chung

Previous research has shown that established techniques for spoken voice conversion (VC) do not perform as well when applied to singing voice conversion (SVC). We propose an alternative loss component in a loss function that is otherwise…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Brendan O'Connor , Simon Dixon

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) aims to generate expressive and high-quality vocals from musical scores, requiring precise modeling of pitch, duration, and articulation. While diffusion-based models have achieved remarkable success in image…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kehan Sui , Jinxu Xiang , Fang Jin