Vibrato Expression Control for Singing Voice Conversion with Improving Independent Control

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17126v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:02:16 GMT
• Title: Vibrato Expression Control for Singing Voice Conversion with Improving Independent Control
• Abstract summary: We introduce a singing voice conversion framework, called VibE-SVC2, to improve singing style conversion performance and controllability.<n>The model offers control over two types of singing styles: a pitch style and a timbre style.<n>We demonstrate that VibE-SVC2 provides fine-grained, independent control over two types of singing styles, outperforming existing methods.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Singing style is a crucial aspect of a natural and expressive singing voice. Singers utilize singing styles to convey the feeling or emotion of the songs. Several works have been proposed to control singing style for making the more expressive singing voice. Recently, VibE-SVC successfully controls vibrato by predicting high-frequency F0 contour. In this paper, we introduce a singing voice conversion framework, called VibE-SVC2, to improve singing style conversion performance and controllability. The model offers control over two types of singing styles: a pitch style and a timbre style. For the pitch style, to resolve the pitch-energy entanglement issue that is unresolved in our previous work, we introduce a novel Energy Style Converter to address remaining style information in the energy contour. In addition, we propose a Zero-shot Pitch Style Converter, which mimics the pitch style of reference audio. To expand the controllability of the model, we propose vibrato rate scaling that is an independent control of vibrato extent, which is unavailable in VibE-SVC. For the timbre style, we extend the model to handle a variety of phonation styles. However, addressing specific styles such as vocal fry poses a challenge, as conventional F0 extraction often fails due to their inherent subharmonic characteristics, which degrades the conversion quality. To address this, we propose a novel Subharmonic Correction algorithm to refine the F0 contour for more natural timbre conversion. Through comprehensive objective and subjective evaluations, we demonstrate that VibE-SVC2 provides fine-grained, independent control over two types of singing styles, outperforming existing methods.

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