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Technological developments have produced methods that can generate educational videos from input text or sound. Recently, the use of deep learning techniques for image and video generation has been widely explored, particularly in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-27 M. E. ElAlami , S. M. Khater , M. El. R. Rehan

In this work, we propose a new solution for parallel wave generation by WaveNet. In contrast to parallel WaveNet (van den Oord et al., 2018), we distill a Gaussian inverse autoregressive flow from the autoregressive WaveNet by minimizing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Wei Ping , Kainan Peng , Jitong Chen

This paper proposes an effective probability density distillation (PDD) algorithm for WaveNet-based parallel waveform generation (PWG) systems. Recently proposed teacher-student frameworks in the PWG system have successfully achieved a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Ryuichi Yamamoto , Eunwoo Song , Jae-Min Kim

State-of-the-art offline handwriting text recognition systems tend to use neural networks and therefore require a large amount of annotated data to be trained. In order to partially satisfy this requirement, we propose a system based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Eloi Alonso , Bastien Moysset , Ronaldo Messina

In this paper, we propose a model using generative adversarial net (GAN) to generate realistic text. Instead of using standard GAN, we combine variational autoencoder (VAE) with generative adversarial net. The use of high-level latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Heng Wang , Zengchang Qin , Tao Wan

With the advent of generative adversarial networks, synthesizing images from textual descriptions has recently become an active research area. It is a flexible and intuitive way for conditional image generation with significant progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Stanislav Frolov , Tobias Hinz , Federico Raue , Jörn Hees , Andreas Dengel

As a sub-domain of text-to-image synthesis, text-to-face generation has huge potentials in public safety domain. With lack of dataset, there are almost no related research focusing on text-to-face synthesis. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Xiang Chen , Lingbo Qing , Xiaohai He , Xiaodong Luo , Yining Xu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown considerable success, especially in the realistic generation of images. In this work, we apply similar techniques for the generation of text. We propose a novel approach to handle the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Akshay Budhkar , Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla , Safwan Hossain , Frank Rudzicz

Voice conversion (VC) stands as a crucial research area in speech synthesis, enabling the transformation of a speaker's vocal characteristics to resemble another while preserving the linguistic content. This technology has broad…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sandipan Dhar , Nanda Dulal Jana , Swagatam Das

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have gained a lot of attention from machine learning community due to their ability to learn and mimic an input data distribution. GANs consist of a discriminator and a generator working in tandem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Saurabh Sahu , Rahul Gupta , Carol Espy-Wilson

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

The generative adversarial network (GAN) framework has emerged as a powerful tool for various image and video synthesis tasks, allowing the synthesis of visual content in an unconditional or input-conditional manner. It has enabled the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ming-Yu Liu , Xun Huang , Jiahui Yu , Ting-Chun Wang , Arun Mallya

In this paper, we propose a multi-speaker face-to-speech waveform generation model that also works for unseen speaker conditions. Using a generative adversarial network (GAN) with linguistic and speaker characteristic features as auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Se-Yun Um , Jihyun Kim , Jihyun Lee , Hong-Goo Kang

Deep generative models have achieved significant progress in speech synthesis to date, while high-fidelity singing voice synthesis is still an open problem for its long continuous pronunciation, rich high-frequency parts, and strong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-08 Rongjie Huang , Chenye Cui , Feiyang Chen , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Zhou Zhao , Baoxing Huai , Zhefeng Wang

Generative Adversarial Networks have been crucial in the developments made in unsupervised learning in recent times. Exemplars of image synthesis from text or other images, these networks have shown remarkable improvements over conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Rohan Akut , Sumukh Marathe , Rucha Apte , Ishan Joshi , Siddhivinayak Kulkarni

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

Speech is a rich biometric signal that contains information about the identity, gender and emotional state of the speaker. In this work, we explore its potential to generate face images of a speaker by conditioning a Generative Adversarial…

Text generation with generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be divided into the text-based and code-based categories according to the type of signals used for discrimination. In this work, we introduce a novel text-based approach called…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Md. Akmal Haidar , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Alan Do-Omri , Ahmad Rashid

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been extremely successful in various application domains such as computer vision, medicine, and natural language processing. Moreover, transforming an object or person to a desired shape become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Eric Granger , Huiyu Zhou , Ruili Wang , M. Emre Celebi , Jie Yang

Text-to-audio (TTA) generation can significantly benefit the media industry by reducing production costs and enhancing work efficiency. However, most current TTA models (primarily diffusion-based) suffer from slow inference speeds and high…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-30 HaeChun Chung