Prompt-Singer: Controllable Singing-Voice-Synthesis with Natural Language Prompt (2024.naacl-long)
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Yongqi Wang, Ruofan Hu, Rongjie Huang, Zhiqing Hong, Ruiqi Li, Wenrui Liu, Fuming You, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao
| Challenge: | Recent singing-voice-synthesis methods lack ability to control style attributes of synthesized singing. |
| Approach: | They propose a singing-voice-synthesis method that enables attribute controlling on singer gender, vocal range and volume with natural language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves favorable control ability and audio quality. |
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