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The recent success of raw audio waveform synthesis models like WaveNet motivates a new approach for music synthesis, in which the entire process --- creating audio samples from a score and instrument information --- is modeled using…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Jong Wook Kim , Rachel Bittner , Aparna Kumar , Juan Pablo Bello

Music source separation (MSS) aims to extract individual instrument sources from their mixture. While most existing methods focus on the widely adopted four-stem separation setup (vocals, bass, drums, and other instruments), this approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yutong Wen , Minje Kim , Paris Smaragdis

While the performance of cross-lingual TTS based on monolingual corpora has been significantly improved recently, generating cross-lingual speech still suffers from the foreign accent problem, leading to limited naturalness. Besides,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tao Li , Chenxu Hu , Jian Cong , Xinfa Zhu , Jingbei Li , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang , Lei Xie

In this work, we propose an approach to music source separation that uses a generative diffusion model as a last-stage refinement on top of a deterministic separator, progressively enhancing the separated sources through iterative…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tornike Karchkhadze , Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Shuo Zhang , Shlomo Dubnov

Cross-speaker style transfer in speech synthesis aims at transferring a style from source speaker to synthesized speech of a target speaker's timbre. In most previous methods, the synthesized fine-grained prosody features often represent…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Chunyu Qiang , Peng Yang , Hao Che , Ying Zhang , Xiaorui Wang , Zhongyuan Wang

Previous studies on music style transfer have mainly focused on one-to-one style conversion, which is relatively limited. When considering the conversion between multiple styles, previous methods required designing multiple modes to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hong Huang , Yuyi Wang , Luyao Li , Jun Lin

In Music Information Retrieval (MIR), modeling and transforming the tone of musical instruments, particularly electric guitars, has gained increasing attention due to the richness of the instrument tone and the flexibility of expression.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Kuan-Yu Chen , Kuan-Lin Chen , Yu-Chieh Yu , Jian-Jiun Ding

Source separation is the process of isolating individual sounds in an auditory mixture of multiple sounds [1], and has a variety of applications ranging from speech enhancement and lyric transcription [2] to digital audio production for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Bradford Derby , Lucas Dunker , Samarth Galchar , Shashank Jarmale , Akash Setti

In this study, we define the identity of the singer with two independent concepts - timbre and singing style - and propose a multi-singer singing synthesis system that can model them separately. To this end, we extend our single-singer…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Juheon Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Junghyun Koo , Kyogu Lee

Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems find broad applications in voice assistants, e-learning, and audiobook creation. The pursuit of modern models, like Diffusion Models (DMs), holds promise for achieving high-fidelity, real-time speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiang Li , Fan Bu , Ambuj Mehrish , Yingting Li , Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

Device-guided music transfer adapts playback across unseen devices for users who lack them. Existing methods mainly focus on modifying the timbre, rhythm, harmony, or instrumentation to mimic genres or artists, overlooking the diverse…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Manh Pham Hung , Changshuo Hu , Ting Dang , Dong Ma

Learning diffusion bridge models is easy; making them fast and practical is an art. Diffusion bridge models (DBMs) are a promising extension of diffusion models for applications in image-to-image translation. However, like many modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Nikita Gushchin , David Li , Daniil Selikhanovych , Evgeny Burnaev , Dmitry Baranchuk , Alexander Korotin

Tone style transfer for photo retouching aims to adapt the stylistic tone of the reference image to a given content image. However, the lack of high-quality large-scale triplet datasets with stylized ground truth forces existing methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yuhai Deng , Huimin She , Wei Shen , Meng Li , Ruoxi Wu , Lunxi Yuan , Xiang Li

Current Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems typically use separate models for speech-prompted and text-prompted timbre control. While unifying both control signals into a single model is desirable, the challenge of cross-modal alignment often…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zihao Zheng , Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Mengyue Wu , Xuenan Xu

Despite advances in diffusion-based text-to-music (TTM) methods, efficient, high-quality generation remains a challenge. We introduce Presto!, an approach to inference acceleration for score-based diffusion transformers via reducing both…

Cross-speaker style transfer aims to extract the speech style of the given reference speech, which can be reproduced in the timbre of arbitrary target speakers. Existing methods on this topic have explored utilizing utterance-level style…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Xiang Li , Changhe Song , Xianhao Wei , Zhiyong Wu , Jia Jia , Helen Meng

Existing multi-timbre transcription models struggle with generalization beyond pre-trained instruments, rigid source-count constraints, and high computational demands that hinder deployment on low-resource devices. We address these…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ruigang Li , Yongxu Zhu

In recent studies, diffusion models have shown promise as priors for solving audio inverse problems. These models allow us to sample from the posterior distribution of a target signal given an observed signal by manipulating the diffusion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Chin-Yun Yu , Emilian Postolache , Emanuele Rodolà , György Fazekas

While existing Singing Voice Synthesis systems achieve high-fidelity solo performances, they are constrained by global timbre control, failing to address dynamic multi-singer arrangement and vocal texture within a single song. To address…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiatao Chen , Xing Tang , Xiaoyue Duan , Yutang Feng , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

Recent diffusion-based methods for material transfer rely on image fine-tuning or complex architectures with assistive networks, but face challenges including text dependency, extra computational costs, and feature misalignment. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Nisha Huang , Henglin Liu , Yizhou Lin , Kaer Huang , Chubin Chen , Jie Guo , Tong-Yee Lee , Xiu Li