MakeSinger: A Semi-Supervised Training Method for Data-Efficient Singing Voice Synthesis via Classifier-free Diffusion Guidance

Abstract: In this paper, we propose MakeSinger, a semi-supervised training method for singing voice synthesis (SVS) via classifier-free diffusion guidance. The challenge in SVS lies in the costly process of gathering aligned sets of text, pitch, and audio data. MakeSinger enables the training of the diffusion-based SVS model from any speech and singing voice data regardless of its labeling, thereby enhancing the quality of generated voices with large amount of unlabeled data. At inference, our novel dual guiding mechanism gives text and pitch guidance on the reverse diffusion step by estimating the score of masked input. Experimental results show that the model trained in a semi-supervised manner outperforms other baselines trained only on the labeled data in terms of pronunciation, pitch accuracy and overall quality. Furthermore, we demonstrate that by adding Text-to-Speech (TTS) data in training, the model can synthesize the singing voices of TTS speakers even without their singing voices.