Speaker identity is one of the important characteristics of human speech. In voice
conversion, we change the speaker identity from one to another, while kee** the linguistic …

We propose a novel training strategy for Tacotron-based text-to-speech (TTS) system that
improves the speech styling at utterance level. One of the key challenges in prosody …

Singing, the vocal productionof musical tones, is one of the most important elements of
music. Addressing the needs of real-world applications, the study of technologies related to …

It is widely known that males and females typically possess different sound characteristics
when singing, such as timbre and pitch, but it has never been explored whether these …

Singing songs can be an engaging and effective activity when learning a foreign language.
In this paper, we describe a multi-language karaoke application called SLIONS: Singing and …

A novel technique is proposed for the analysis and modeling of timbre perception features,
including a new terminology system for evaluating timbre in musical instruments. This …

In this work, we develop a strategy to automatically evaluate pronunciation of singing. We
apply singing-adapted automatic speech recognizer (ASR) in a two-stage approach for …

Previous adversarial audio attacks have mainly focused on ensuring the effectiveness of
attacking an audio signal classifier via creating a small noise-like perturbation on the …

Thus far, voice conversion studies are mainly focused on the conversion of spectrum.
However, speaker identity is also characterized by its prosody features, such as fundamental …

Speech-to-singing (STS) conversion is the task of converting the read lyrics of a song,
spoken in natural manner, to proper singing. The most important aspect of the task is to …