DiffSVC: A Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Singing Voice Conversion

Songxiang Liu *, Yuewen Cao *, Dan Su, Helen Meng
Human-Computer Communications Laboratory, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tencent AI Lab

Introduction

Singing voice conversion (SVC) is one promising technique which can enrich the way of human-computer interaction by endowing a computer the ability to produce high-fidelity and expressive singing voice. In this paper, we propose DiffSVC, an SVC system based on denoising diffusion probabilistic model. DiffSVC uses phonetic posteriorgrams (PPGs) as content features. A denoising module is trained in DiffSVC, which takes destroyed mel spectrogram produced by the diffusion/forward process and its corresponding step information as input to predict the added Gaussian noise. We use PPGs, fundamental frequency features and loudness features as auxiliary input to assist the denoising process. Experiments show that DiffSVC can achieve superior conversion performance in terms of naturalness and voice similarity to current state-of-the-art SVC approaches.

Model Overview

Overall Architecture

Demo

Samples from the target female singer.

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Source Converted (FastSVC) Converted (DiffSVC)