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most citedDiffRhythm: Blazingly Fast and Embarrassingly Simple End-to-End Full-Length Song Generation with Latent Diffusion

5 citations · 6 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

eess.AS2026

MSVAE: Rethinking Musical Semantics in Continuous Latent Spaces

Guobin Ma, Yuepeng Jiang, Dake Guo +15

Continuous latent representations underlie recent diffusion-based lyrics-to-song and text-to-music systems, yet aligning lyric conditions with these latents remains difficult: exis…

eess.AS2026

Rethinking Music Tokenization: A Semantic Codec toward High-Fidelity LLM Music Generation

Huakang Chen, Guobin Ma, Yuepeng Jiang +10

Discrete audio tokenization has become the critical interface between raw waveforms and autoregressive modeling in recent music generation. As a result, music tokenizers must simul…

eess.AS2026

MiDashengLM-Gen: Unified Audio Scene Generation via LLM-Driven Autoregressive Flow Matching

Xingwei Sun, Heinrich Dinkel, Gang Li +7

Generating coherent audio scenes that simultaneously blend speech, music, and sound effects remains a significant challenge. Current approaches typically rely on a disjointed pipel…

eess.AS2026

SemBridge: Semantic Token Anchoring for Continuous-Latent Autoregressive Speech Generation

Hanke Xie, Haopeng Lin, Jiale Qian +13

Continuous-latent autoregressive speech generation has emerged as a promising alternative to discrete-token modeling by avoiding quantization loss and preserving richer acoustic in…

eess.AS2026

MeanVC 2: Robust Low-Latency Streaming Zero-Shot Voice Conversion

Guobin Ma, Yuxuan Xia, Yuepeng Jiang +6

Streaming zero-shot voice conversion (VC) has become increasingly popular due to its potential for real-time applications. The recently proposed MeanVC achieves lightweight streami…

eess.AS2026

MINT-Bench: A Comprehensive Multilingual Benchmark for Instruction-Following Text-to-Speech

Huakang Chen, Jingbin Hu, Liumeng Xue +12

Instruction-following text-to-speech (TTS) has emerged as an important capability for controllable and expressive speech generation, yet its evaluation remains underdeveloped due t…

eess.AS2026

YingMusic-Singer: Controllable Singing Voice Synthesis with Flexible Lyric Manipulation and Annotation-free Melody Guidance

Chunbo Hao, Junjie Zheng, Guobin Ma +6

Regenerating singing voices with altered lyrics while preserving melody consistency remains challenging, as existing methods either offer limited controllability or require laborio…

eess.AS2025

SoulX-Podcast: Towards Realistic Long-form Podcasts with Dialectal and Paralinguistic Diversity

Hanke Xie, Haopeng Lin, Wenxiao Cao +17

Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have significantly improved speech expressiveness and naturalness. However, most existing systems are tailored for single-speaker…

eess.AS2025

DiffRhythm 2: Efficient and High Fidelity Song Generation via Block Flow Matching

Yuepeng Jiang, Huakang Chen, Ziqian Ning +7

Generating full-length, high-quality songs is challenging, as it requires maintaining long-term coherence both across text and music modalities and within the music modality itself…

eess.AS2025

MeanVC: Lightweight and Streaming Zero-Shot Voice Conversion via Mean Flows

Guobin Ma, Jixun Yao, Ziqian Ning +4

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer timbre from a source speaker to any unseen target speaker while preserving linguistic content. Growing application scenarios demand…

eess.AS2025

REF-VC: Robust, Expressive and Fast Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Diffusion Transformers

Yuepeng Jiang, Ziqian Ning, Shuai Wang +5

In real-world voice conversion applications, environmental noise in source speech and user demands for expressive output pose critical challenges. Traditional ASR-based methods ens…

eess.AS2025

DiffRhythm+: Controllable and Flexible Full-Length Song Generation with Preference Optimization

Huakang Chen, Yuepeng Jiang, Guobin Ma +7

Songs, as a central form of musical art, exemplify the richness of human intelligence and creativity. While recent advances in generative modeling have enabled notable progress in…

eess.AS2025

SongEval: A Benchmark Dataset for Song Aesthetics Evaluation

Jixun Yao, Guobin Ma, Huixin Xue +9

Aesthetics serve as an implicit and important criterion in song generation tasks that reflect human perception beyond objective metrics. However, evaluating the aesthetics of gener…

eess.AS2025★ 5 cited

DiffRhythm: Blazingly Fast and Embarrassingly Simple End-to-End Full-Length Song Generation with Latent Diffusion

Ziqian Ning, Huakang Chen, Yuepeng Jiang +5

Recent advancements in music generation have garnered significant attention, yet existing approaches face critical limitations. Some current generative models can only synthesize e…

eess.AS2024

Drop the beat! Freestyler for Accompaniment Conditioned Rapping Voice Generation

Ziqian Ning, Shuai Wang, Yuepeng Jiang +5

Rap, a prominent genre of vocal performance, remains underexplored in vocal generation. General vocal synthesis depends on precise note and duration inputs, requiring users to have…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

WenetSpeech4TTS: A 12,800-hour Mandarin TTS Corpus for Large Speech Generation Model Benchmark

Linhan Ma, Dake Guo, Kun Song +7

With the development of large text-to-speech (TTS) models and scale-up of the training data, state-of-the-art TTS systems have achieved impressive performance. In this paper, we pr…

cs.SD2024

Towards Expressive Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis with Hierarchical Prosody Modeling

Yuepeng Jiang, Tao Li, Fengyu Yang +3

Recent research in zero-shot speech synthesis has made significant progress in speaker similarity. However, current efforts focus on timbre generalization rather than prosody model…

cs.SD2023

HiGNN-TTS: Hierarchical Prosody Modeling with Graph Neural Networks for Expressive Long-form TTS

Dake Guo, Xinfa Zhu, Liumeng Xue +4

Recent advances in text-to-speech, particularly those based on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), have significantly improved the expressiveness of short-form synthetic speech. However,…

eess.AS2023

VITS-Based Singing Voice Conversion Leveraging Whisper and multi-scale F0 Modeling

Ziqian Ning, Yuepeng Jiang, Zhichao Wang +2

This paper introduces the T23 team's system submitted to the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2023. Following the recognition-synthesis framework, our singing conversion model is…

eess.AS2023

DualVC 2: Dynamic Masked Convolution for Unified Streaming and Non-Streaming Voice Conversion

Ziqian Ning, Yuepeng Jiang, Pengcheng Zhu +4

Voice conversion is becoming increasingly popular, and a growing number of application scenarios require models with streaming inference capabilities. The recently proposed DualVC…