eess.ASMar 25, 2026

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

Authors: Chunbo HaoJunjie ZhengGuobin MaYuepeng JiangHuakang ChenWenjie TianGongyu ChenZihao Chen+1 more

Organizations: AI Lab, Giant Network, China

Abstract

Regenerating singing voices with altered lyrics while preserving melody consistency remains challenging, as existing methods either offer limited controllability or require laborious manual alignment. We propose YingMusic-Singer, a fully diffusion-based model enabling melody-controllable singing voice synthesis with flexible lyric manipulation. The model takes three inputs: an optional timbre reference, a melody-providing singing clip, and modified lyrics, without manual alignment. Trained with curriculum learning and Group Relative Policy Optimization, YingMusic-Singer achieves stronger melody preservation and lyric adherence than Vevo2, the most comparable baseline supporting melody control without manual alignment. We also introduce LyricEditBench, the first benchmark for melody-preserving lyric modification evaluation. The code, weights, benchmark, and demos are publicly available at https://github.com/ASLP-lab/YingMusic-Singer-Plus.

Explore similar work

Jun 29, 2026eess.AS

MeloDISinger: Melody-Aware & Duration-Preserving Singing Voice Editing with Audio Infilling

Text-based singing voice editing (SVE) aims to revise sung lyrics while preserving the original melody, total duration, and non-edited regions. In this paper, we propose MeloDISinger, a flow-matching-based SVE model for melody-aware and duration-preserving editing. Its core module, MeloDRP, predicts fixed-budget duration ratios, enabling explicit span-wise duration control. For melody-aware duration allocation, MeloDRP fuses phonetic cues with pseudo-MIDI melodic context through cross-attention, while temporal-overlap supervision encourages soft phoneme--note correspondences. We further use a flow-matching mel decoder for audio infilling to synthesize edited regions while preserving surrounding context. In addition, we introduce a duration-aware edited-lyric generation pipeline using WhisperX and an LLM to construct feasible evaluation scenarios. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in both objective and subjective evaluations.
Yoonjeong Park, Jaekwon Im, Juhan Nam
Aug 4, 2026cs.SD

CLASVS: Continuous-Latent Autoregression for Melody-Preserving Lyric Editing in Singing Voice Synthesis

Reference-conditioned melody-preserving lyric editing replaces words while retaining a performance's timing, singer identity, and naturalness. Continuous-latent autoregression avoids finite codebooks and offers stepwise generation with learned stopping. Editing creates a conflict absent from ordinary reconstruction: training pairs reference cues with original lyrics, whereas inference asks revised lyrics to override source-lyric-correlated cues; one source-following patch can propagate through AR history. We introduce CLASVS. Its State-Control-Transition (SCT) routing keeps target-lyric and reference-melody controls persistent, returns semantic feedback on phonetic progress to the causal planner, and confines the previous latent patch to the local Transition. Progressive State-Control Grounding (PSCG) learns this contract through paired-edit-free, content-consistent Mandarin reconstruction. On two Mandarin benchmarks, CLASVS improves all four operations over discrete-AR Vevo2 and reduces macro-PER by 46.2%, while maintaining melody, singer similarity, and perceptual quality. Together, these results establish a strong continuous-AR operating point for score-annotation-free lyric edits and a basis for broader stepwise control. Audio demonstrations are available on our project page: https://piedpiperg.github.io/clasvs-demo/.
Yizhong Geng, Tian-Hao Zhang, Chunfeng Wang +7
Jul 30, 2026cs.SD

VocalRender: Score-Native Singing Voice Synthesis for Real-World Composition

Existing singing voice synthesis systems often require predefined durations, explicit duration prediction, or time-aligned acoustic guidance, which limits their compatibility with practical composition workflows. We propose VocalRender, a score-native system that directly synthesizes singing from lyrics, pitches, symbolic note values, and tempo. It uses an interleaved lyric--note representation and an autoregressive diffusion model to generate continuous acoustic latents while predicting the output length, eliminating the need for explicit duration prediction. Trained on a 2,300-hour singing dataset, VocalRender achieves strong intelligibility, strong melody control, and high speaker similarity across both in-domain and out-of-domain benchmarks. Notably, it outperforms the strongest baseline by 0.420.42 points in naturalness CMOS, demonstrating the effectiveness of our proposed score-native architecture.
Yukun Chen, Tianrui Wang, Zhaoxi Mu +2