COMOSVC: Consistency Model-Based Singing Voice Conversion
Yiwen Lu, Zhen Ye, Wei Xue, Xu Tan, Qifeng Liu, Yike Guo · 2024
The diffusion-based Singing Voice Conversion (SVC) methods have achieved remarkable performances, producing natural audios with high similarity to the target timbre. However, the iterative sampling process results in slow inference speed, and acceleration thus becomes crucial. In this paper, we propose CoMoSVC, a consistency model-based SVC method, which aims to achieve both high-quality generation and high-speed sampling. A diffusion-based teacher model is first specially designed for SVC, and a student model is further distilled under self-consistency properties to achieve one-step sampling. Experiments on a single NVIDIA RTX4090 GPU reveal that although CoMoSVC has a significantly faster inference speed than the state-of-the-art (SOTA) diffusion-based SVC systems, it still achieves comparable or superior conversion performance based on both subjective and objective metrics. Audio samples are available at https://comosvc.github.io/.