Singing voice synthesis based on frame-level sequence-to-sequence models considering vocal timing deviation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02262v1
• Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 19:00:10 GMT
• Title: Singing voice synthesis based on frame-level sequence-to-sequence models considering vocal timing deviation
• Authors: Miku Nishihara, Yukiya Hono, Kei Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda
• Abstract summary: 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 scores, taking into account differences between actual vocal timing and note start timing.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 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 scores, taking into account that there are differences between actual vocal timing and note start timing. In many SVS systems including our previous work, phoneme-level score features are converted into frame-level ones on the basis of phoneme boundaries obtained by external aligners to take into account vocal timing deviations. Therefore, the sound quality is affected by the aligner accuracy in this system. To alleviate this problem, we introduce an attention mechanism with frame-level features. In the proposed system, the attention mechanism absorbs alignment errors in phoneme boundaries. Additionally, we evaluate the system with pseudo-phoneme-boundaries defined by heuristic rules based on musical scores when there is no aligner. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed system.

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