SoulX-Singer: Towards High-Quality Zero-Shot Singing Voice Synthesis

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Authors: Jiale Qian, Hao Meng, Tian Zheng, Pengcheng Zhu, Haopeng Lin, Yuhang Dai, Hanke Xie, Wenxiao Cao, Ruixuan Shang, Jun Wu, Hongmei Liu, Hanlin Wen
+8 more Jian Zhao, Zhonglin Jiang, Yong Chen, Shunshun Yin, Ming Tao, Jianguo Wei, Lei Xie, Xinsheng Wang
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Abstract

While recent years have witnessed rapid progress in speech synthesis, open-source singing voice synthesis (SVS) systems still face significant barriers to industrial deployment, particularly in terms of robustness and zero-shot generalization. In this report, we introduce SoulX-Singer, a high-quality open-source SVS system designed with practical deployment considerations in mind. SoulX-Singer supports controllable singing generation conditioned on either symbolic musical scores (MIDI) or melodic representations, enabling flexible and expressive control in real-world production workflows. Trained on more than 42,000 hours of vocal data, the system supports Mandarin Chinese, English, and Cantonese and consistently achieves state-of-the-art synthesis quality across languages under diverse musical conditions. Furthermore, to enable reliable evaluation of zero-shot SVS performance in practical scenarios, we construct SoulX-Singer-Eval, a dedicated benchmark with strict training-test disentanglement, facilitating systematic assessment in zero-shot settings.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Speech Recognition and Synthesis Music and Audio Processing Music Technology and Sound Studies

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
8 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint