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This paper introduces a novel method for emulating piano sounds. We propose to exploit the sines, transient, and noise decomposition to design a differentiable spectral modeling synthesizer replicating piano notes. Three sub-modules learn…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Riccardo Simionato , Stefano Fasciani

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) is the computer production of a human-like singing voice from given musical scores. To accomplish end-to-end SVS effectively and efficiently, this work adopts the acoustic model-neural vocoder architecture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Yin-Ping Cho , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang , Yi-Wen Liu

Modern audio generation predominantly relies on latent-space compression, introducing additional complexity and potential information loss. In this work, we challenge this paradigm with WavFlow, a framework that generates high-fidelity…

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…

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 and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Semin Kim , Myeonghun Jeong , Hyeonseung Lee , Minchan Kim , Byoung Jin Choi , Nam Soo Kim

Classical parametric speech coding techniques provide a compact representation for speech signals. This affords a very low transmission rate but with a reduced perceptual quality of the reconstructed signals. Recently, autoregressive deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Ahmed Mustafa , Arijit Biswas , Christian Bergler , Julia Schottenhamml , Andreas Maier

Recently, substantial progress has been made in the area of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) using modern machine learning techniques to decode and interpret brain signals. While Electroencephalography (EEG) has provided a non-invasive method…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Nik Khadijah Nik Aznan , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Stephen Bonner , Jason D. Connolly , Toby P. Breckon

Recent progress in diffusion-based Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) demonstrates strong expressiveness but remains limited by data scarcity and model scalability. We introduce a two-stage pipeline: a compact seed set of human-sung recordings…

In recent years, neural vocoders have surpassed classical speech generation approaches in naturalness and perceptual quality of the synthesized speech. Computationally heavy models like WaveNet and WaveGlow achieve best results, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Ahmed Mustafa , Nicola Pia , Guillaume Fuchs

Simulators that generate observations based on theoretical models can be important tools for development, prediction, and assessment of signal processing algorithms. In order to design these simulators, painstaking effort is required to…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Sangwook Park , David K. Han , Hanseok Ko

We present a deep neural network-based methodology for synthesising percussive sounds with control over high-level timbral characteristics of the sounds. This approach allows for intuitive control of a synthesizer, enabling the user to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 António Ramires , Pritish Chandna , Xavier Favory , Emilia Gómez , Xavier Serra

Generating sound effects that humans want is an important topic. However, there are few studies in this area for sound generation. In this study, we investigate generating sound conditioned on a text prompt and propose a novel text-to-sound…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Dongchao Yang , Jianwei Yu , Helin Wang , Wen Wang , Chao Weng , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

Recent advances in speech synthesis suggest that limitations such as the lossy nature of the amplitude spectrum with minimum phase approximation and the over-smoothing effect in acoustic modeling can be overcome by using advanced machine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-10 Xin Wang , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba , Shinji Takaki , Lauri Juvela , Junichi Yamagishi

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are nowadays used to represent multimedia signals across various real-life applications, including image super-resolution, image compression, or 3D rendering. Existing methods that leverage INRs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Filip Szatkowski , Karol J. Piczak , Przemysław Spurek , Jacek Tabor , Tomasz Trzciński

To apply neural sequence models such as the Transformers to music generation tasks, one has to represent a piece of music by a sequence of tokens drawn from a finite set of pre-defined vocabulary. Such a vocabulary usually involves tokens…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Wen-Yi Hsiao , Jen-Yu Liu , Yin-Cheng Yeh , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Previous works (Donahue et al., 2018a; Engel et al., 2019a) have found that generating coherent raw audio waveforms with GANs is challenging. In this paper, we show that it is possible to train GANs reliably to generate high quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Kundan Kumar , Rithesh Kumar , Thibault de Boissiere , Lucas Gestin , Wei Zhen Teoh , Jose Sotelo , Alexandre de Brebisson , Yoshua Bengio , Aaron Courville

In recent years, speech enhancement (SE) has achieved impressive progress with the success of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, the DNN approach usually fails to generalize well to unseen environmental noise that is not included in the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Haoyu Li , Junichi Yamagishi

Recent neural networks such as WaveNet and sampleRNN that learn directly from speech waveform samples have achieved very high-quality synthetic speech in terms of both naturalness and speaker similarity even in multi-speaker text-to-speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Yi Zhao , Shinji Takaki , Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi , Daisuke Saito , Nobuaki Minematsu

The problem of audio synthesis has been increasingly solved using deep neural networks. With the introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), another efficient and adjective path has opened up to solve this problem. In this paper,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Shreeviknesh Sankaran , Sukavanan Nanjundan , G. Paavai Anand

We present Deep Voice, a production-quality text-to-speech system constructed entirely from deep neural networks. Deep Voice lays the groundwork for truly end-to-end neural speech synthesis. The system comprises five major building blocks:…