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This paper proposes a source-filter-based generative adversarial neural vocoder named SF-GAN, which achieves high-fidelity waveform generation from input acoustic features by introducing F0-based source excitation signals to a neural filter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Ye-Xin Lu , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

This paper proposes speaker-adaptive neural vocoders for parametric text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Recently proposed WaveNet-based neural vocoding systems successfully generate a time sequence of speech signal with an autoregressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Eunwoo Song , Jin-Seob Kim , Kyungguen Byun , Hong-Goo Kang

We propose PeriodNet, a non-autoregressive (non-AR) waveform generation model with a new model structure for modeling periodic and aperiodic components in speech waveforms. The non-AR waveform generation models can generate speech waveforms…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Yukiya Hono , Shinji Takaki , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

We introduce Generative Spoken Language Modeling, the task of learning the acoustic and linguistic characteristics of a language from raw audio (no text, no labels), and a set of metrics to automatically evaluate the learned representations…

State-of-the-art text-independent speaker verification systems typically use cepstral features or filter bank energies as speech features. Recent studies attempted to extract speaker embeddings directly from raw waveforms and have shown…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Ge Zhu , Fei Jiang , Zhiyao Duan

Neural waveform models such as WaveNet have demonstrated better performance than conventional vocoders for statistical parametric speech synthesis. As an autoregressive (AR) model, WaveNet is limited by a slow sequential waveform generation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Xin Wang , Shinji Takaki , Junichi Yamagishi

Various sources have reported the WaveNet deep learning architecture being able to generate high-quality speech, but to our knowledge there haven't been studies on the interpretation or visualization of trained WaveNets. This study…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Kanru Hua

This paper proposes a modeling-by-generation (MbG) excitation vocoder for a neural text-to-speech (TTS) system. Recently proposed neural excitation vocoders can realize qualified waveform generation by combining a vocal tract filter with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Eunwoo Song , Min-Jae Hwang , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Jin-Seob Kim , Ohsung Kwon , Jae-Min Kim

Building a voice conversion system for noisy target speakers, such as users providing noisy samples or Internet found data, is a challenging task since the use of contaminated speech in model training will apparently degrade the conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Liumeng Xue , Shan Yang , Na Hu , Dan Su , Lei Xie

This paper introduces WaveGrad 2, a non-autoregressive generative model for text-to-speech synthesis. WaveGrad 2 is trained to estimate the gradient of the log conditional density of the waveform given a phoneme sequence. The model takes an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Nanxin Chen , Yu Zhang , Heiga Zen , Ron J. Weiss , Mohammad Norouzi , Najim Dehak , William Chan

Unsupervised representation learning of speech has been of keen interest in recent years, which is for example evident in the wide interest of the ZeroSpeech challenges. This work presents a new method for learning frame level…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Mingjie Chen , Thomas Hain

In this paper, we propose a high-quality generative text-to-speech (TTS) system using an effective spectrum and excitation estimation method. Our previous research verified the effectiveness of the ExcitNet-based speech generation model in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Ohsung Kwon , Eunwoo Song , Jae-Min Kim , Hong-Goo Kang

We present a wav-to-wav generative model for the task of singing voice conversion from any identity. Our method utilizes both an acoustic model, trained for the task of automatic speech recognition, together with melody extracted features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Adam Polyak , Lior Wolf , Yossi Adi , Yaniv Taigman

We propose to implement speech enhancement by the regeneration of clean speech from a salient representation extracted from the noisy signal. The network that extracts salient features is trained using a set of weight-sharing clones of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Michael Chinen , W. Bastiaan Kleijn , Felicia S. C. Lim , Jan Skoglund

In this paper, we propose WG-WaveNet, a fast, lightweight, and high-quality waveform generation model. WG-WaveNet is composed of a compact flow-based model and a post-filter. The two components are jointly trained by maximizing the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Po-chun Hsu , Hung-yi Lee

This paper proposes a novel Wavelet Packet based feature extraction approach for the task of text independent speaker recognition. The features are extracted by using the combination of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) and Wavelet…

In this work, we present CleanUNet, a causal speech denoising model on the raw waveform. The proposed model is based on an encoder-decoder architecture combined with several self-attention blocks to refine its bottleneck representations,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Zhifeng Kong , Wei Ping , Ambrish Dantrey , Bryan Catanzaro

Diffusion models have recently been shown to be relevant for high-quality speech generation. Most work has been focused on generating spectrograms, and as such, they further require a subsequent model to convert the spectrogram to a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Roi Benita , Michael Elad , Joseph Keshet

We present a transformer-based architecture for voice separation of a target speaker from multiple other speakers and ambient noise. We achieve this by using two separate neural networks: (A) An enrolment network designed to craft…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Akam Rahimi , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

In recent years, speaker recognition systems based on raw waveform inputs have received increasing attention. However, the performance of such systems are typically inferior to the state-of-the-art handcrafted feature-based counterparts,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Jee-weon Jung , You Jin Kim , Hee-Soo Heo , Bong-Jin Lee , Youngki Kwon , Joon Son Chung