Adapting Speech Language Model to Singing Voice Synthesis

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Main Authors: Zhao, Yiwen, Shi, Jiatong, Tian, Jinchuan, Tang, Yuxun, Hai, Jiarui, Han, Jionghao, Watanabe, Shinji
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author Zhao, Yiwen
Shi, Jiatong
Tian, Jinchuan
Tang, Yuxun
Hai, Jiarui
Han, Jionghao
Watanabe, Shinji
author_facet Zhao, Yiwen
Shi, Jiatong
Tian, Jinchuan
Tang, Yuxun
Hai, Jiarui
Han, Jionghao
Watanabe, Shinji
contents Speech Language Models (SLMs) have recently emerged as a unified paradigm for addressing a wide range of speech-related tasks, including text-to-speech (TTS), speech enhancement (SE), and automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, the generalization capability of large-scale pre-trained SLMs remains underexplored. In this work, we adapt a 1.7B parameter TTS pretrained SLM for singing voice synthesis (SVS), using only a 135-hour synthetic singing corpus, ACE-Opencpop. Building upon the ESPNet-SpeechLM, our recipe involves the following procedure: (1) tokenization of music score conditions and singing waveforms, (2) multi-stream language model token prediction, (3) conditional flow matching-based mel-spectrogram generation. (4) a mel-to-wave vocoder. Experimental results demonstrate that our adapted SLM generalizes well to SVS and achieves performance comparable to leading discrete token-based SVS models.
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spellingShingle Adapting Speech Language Model to Singing Voice Synthesis
Zhao, Yiwen
Shi, Jiatong
Tian, Jinchuan
Tang, Yuxun
Hai, Jiarui
Han, Jionghao
Watanabe, Shinji
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Speech Language Models (SLMs) have recently emerged as a unified paradigm for addressing a wide range of speech-related tasks, including text-to-speech (TTS), speech enhancement (SE), and automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, the generalization capability of large-scale pre-trained SLMs remains underexplored. In this work, we adapt a 1.7B parameter TTS pretrained SLM for singing voice synthesis (SVS), using only a 135-hour synthetic singing corpus, ACE-Opencpop. Building upon the ESPNet-SpeechLM, our recipe involves the following procedure: (1) tokenization of music score conditions and singing waveforms, (2) multi-stream language model token prediction, (3) conditional flow matching-based mel-spectrogram generation. (4) a mel-to-wave vocoder. Experimental results demonstrate that our adapted SLM generalizes well to SVS and achieves performance comparable to leading discrete token-based SVS models.
title Adapting Speech Language Model to Singing Voice Synthesis
topic Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14657