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This paper proposes a controllable singing voice synthesis system capable of generating expressive singing voice with two novel methodologies. First, a local style token module, which predicts frame-level style tokens from an input pitch…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Juheon Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Kyogu Lee

This paper aims to introduce a robust singing voice synthesis (SVS) system to produce very natural and realistic singing voices efficiently by leveraging the adversarial training strategy. On one hand, we designed simple but generic random…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zewang Zhang , Yibin Zheng , Xinhui Li , Li Lu

This paper describes our proposed integration system for the spoofing-aware speaker verification challenge. It consists of a robust spoofing-aware verification system that use the speaker verification and antispoofing embeddings extracted…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Juan M. Martín-Doñas , Iván G. Torre , Aitor Álvarez , Joaquin Arellano

Singing voice conversion (SVC) automates song covers by converting a source singing voice from a source singer into a new singing voice with the same lyrics and melody as the source, but sounds like being covered by the target singer of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Guangke Chen , Yedi Zhang , Fu Song , Ting Wang , Xiaoning Du , Yang Liu

While many recent any-to-any voice conversion models succeed in transferring some target speech's style information to the converted speech, they still lack the ability to faithfully reproduce the speaking style of the target speaker. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Hyungseob Lim , Kyungguen Byun , Sunkuk Moon , Erik Visser

We participated in track 2 of the VoiceMOS Challenge 2024, which aimed to predict the mean opinion score (MOS) of singing samples. Our submission secured the first place among all participating teams, excluding the official baseline. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yu-Fei Shi , Yang Ai , Ye-Xin Lu , Hui-Peng Du , Zhen-Hua Ling

Text-to-song generation, the task of creating vocals and accompaniment from textual inputs, poses significant challenges due to domain complexity and data scarcity. Existing approaches often employ multi-stage generation procedures, leading…

We present StreamVC, a streaming voice conversion solution that preserves the content and prosody of any source speech while matching the voice timbre from any target speech. Unlike previous approaches, StreamVC produces the resulting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yang Yang , Yury Kartynnik , Yunpeng Li , Jiuqiang Tang , Xing Li , George Sung , Matthias Grundmann

This paper introduces FastVC, an end-to-end model for fast Voice Conversion (VC). The proposed model can convert speech of arbitrary length from multiple source speakers to multiple target speakers. FastVC is based on a conditional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Oriol Barbany Mayor , Milos Cernak

Cross-lingual voice conversion (CLVC) is a quite challenging task since the source and target speakers speak different languages. This paper proposes a CLVC framework based on bottleneck features and deep neural network (DNN). In the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-12 M Kiran Reddy , K Sreenivasa Rao

Building cross-lingual voice conversion (VC) systems for multiple speakers and multiple languages has been a challenging task for a long time. This paper describes a parallel non-autoregressive network to achieve bilingual and code-switched…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Yaogen Yang , Haozhe Zhang , Xiaoyi Qin , Shanshan Liang , Huahua Cui , Mingyang Xu , Ming Li

This paper presents the sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) baseline system for the voice conversion challenge (VCC) 2020. We consider a naive approach for voice conversion (VC), which is to first transcribe the input speech with an automatic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Shinji Watanabe , Tomoki Toda

Voice Conversion (VC) is a technique that aims to transform the non-linguistic information of a source utterance to change the perceived identity of the speaker. While there is a rich literature on VC, most proposed methods are trained and…

This paper describes our submission to Task 1 of the Short-duration Speaker Verification (SdSV) challenge 2020. Task 1 is a text-dependent speaker verification task, where both the speaker and phrase are required to be verified. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Sung Hwan Mun , Woo Hyun Kang , Min Hyun Han , Nam Soo Kim

Traditional voice conversion (VC) methods typically attempt to separate speaker identity and linguistic information into distinct representations, which are then combined to reconstruct the audio. However, effectively disentangling these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Huu Tuong Tu , Huan Vu , cuong tien nguyen , Dien Hy Ngo , Nguyen Thi Thu Trang

In real-world voice conversion applications, environmental noise in source speech and user demands for expressive output pose critical challenges. Traditional ASR-based methods ensure noise robustness but suppress prosody richness, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Yuepeng Jiang , Ziqian Ning , Shuai Wang , Chengjia Wang , Mengxiao Bi , Pengcheng Zhu , Zhonghua Fu , Lei Xie

Singing voice beat tracking is a challenging task, due to the lack of musical accompaniment that often contains robust rhythmic and harmonic patterns, something most existing beat tracking systems utilize and can be essential for estimating…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jiajun Deng , Yaolong Ju , Jing Yang , Simon Lui , Xunying Liu

The goal of this work is to generate natural speech in multiple languages while maintaining the same speaker identity, a task known as cross-lingual speech synthesis. A key challenge of cross-lingual speech synthesis is the language-speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Ji-Hoon Kim , Hong-Sun Yang , Yoon-Cheol Ju , Il-Hwan Kim , Byeong-Yeol Kim , Joon Son Chung

Automatic singing voice understanding tasks, such as singer identification, singing voice transcription, and singing technique classification, benefit from data-driven approaches that utilize deep learning techniques. These approaches work…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuya Yamamoto

In this paper, we propose "SoundSpring", a cutting-edge error-resilient audio transceiver that marries the robustness benefits of joint source-channel coding (JSCC) while also being compatible with current digital communication systems.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Shengshi Yao , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Sixian Wang , Siye Wang , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang