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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

Binaural audio plays a significant role in constructing immersive augmented and virtual realities. As it is expensive to record binaural audio from the real world, synthesizing them from mono audio has attracted increasing attention. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Yichong Leng , Zehua Chen , Junliang Guo , Haohe Liu , Jiawei Chen , Xu Tan , Danilo Mandic , Lei He , Xiang-Yang Li , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Generative models have shown significant achievements in audio generation tasks. However, existing models struggle with complex and detailed prompts, leading to potential performance degradation. We hypothesize that this problem stems from…

This paper adapts a StyleGAN model for speech generation with minimal or no conditioning on text. StyleGAN is a multi-scale convolutional GAN capable of hierarchically capturing data structure and latent variation on multiple spatial (or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Kasperi Palkama , Lauri Juvela , Alexander Ilin

Deep learning has dramatically improved the performance of sounds recognition. However, learning acoustic models directly from the raw waveform is still challenging. Current waveform-based models generally use time-domain convolutional…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Boqing Zhu , Changjian Wang , Feng Liu , Jin Lei , Zengquan Lu , Yuxing Peng

Voice impersonation is not the same as voice transformation, although the latter is an essential element of it. In voice impersonation, the resultant voice must convincingly convey the impression of having been naturally produced by the…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Yang Gao , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj

Current state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition systems are trained to work in specific `domains', defined based on factors like application, sampling rate and codec. When such recognizers are used in conditions that do not match the…

Recent advances in neural network -based text-to-speech have reached human level naturalness in synthetic speech. The present sequence-to-sequence models can directly map text to mel-spectrogram acoustic features, which are convenient for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Lauri Juvela , Bajibabu Bollepalli , Junichi Yamagishi , Paavo Alku

Current generative models are able to generate high-quality artefacts but have been shown to struggle with compositional reasoning, which can be defined as the ability to generate complex structures from simpler elements. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Giovanni Bindi , Philippe Esling

Large language models reveal deep comprehension and fluent generation in the field of multi-modality. Although significant advancements have been achieved in audio multi-modality, existing methods are rarely leverage language model for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hualei Wang , Jianguo Mao , Zhifang Guo , Jiarui Wan , Hong Liu , Xiangdong Wang

The creation of listener facial responses aims to simulate interactive communication feedback from a listener during a face-to-face conversation. Our goal is to generate believable videos of listeners' heads that respond authentically to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Minh-Duc Nguyen , Hyung-Jeong Yang , Seung-Won Kim , Ji-Eun Shin , Soo-Hyung Kim

Recent advancement in Generative Adversarial Networks in speech synthesis domain[3],[2] have shown, that it's possible to train GANs [8] in a reliable manner for high quality coherent waveform generation from mel-spectograms. We propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Luka Chkhetiani , Levan Bejanidze

Previous research in speech enhancement has mostly focused on modeling time or time-frequency domain information alone, with little consideration given to the potential benefits of simultaneously modeling both domains. Since these domains…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Feng Dang , Qi Hu , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

Traditional parametric coding of speech facilitates low rate but provides poor reconstruction quality because of the inadequacy of the model used. We describe how a WaveNet generative speech model can be used to generate high quality speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-05 W. Bastiaan Kleijn , Felicia S. C. Lim , Alejandro Luebs , Jan Skoglund , Florian Stimberg , Quan Wang , Thomas C. Walters

The time domain waveform of a speech signal carries all of the auditory information. From the phonological point of view, it little can be said on the basis of the waveform itself. However, past research in mathematics, acoustics, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Urmila Shrawankar , V M Thakare

Online multichannel speech enhancement has been intensively studied recently. Though Mel-scale frequency is more matched with human auditory perception and computationally efficient than linear frequency, few works are implemented in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Yujie Yang , Bing Yang , Xiaofei Li

Recent advances in visually-induced audio generation are based on sampling short, low-fidelity, and one-class sounds. Moreover, sampling 1 second of audio from the state-of-the-art model takes minutes on a high-end GPU. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Vladimir Iashin , Esa Rahtu

Time series generation models are crucial for applications like data augmentation and privacy preservation. Most existing time series generation models are typically designed to generate data from one specified domain. While leveraging data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yu-Hao Huang , Chang Xu , Yueying Wu , Wu-Jun Li , Jiang Bian

Point processes offer a versatile framework for sequential event modeling. However, the computational challenges and constrained representational power of the existing point process models have impeded their potential for wider…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-22 Zheng Dong , Zekai Fan , Shixiang Zhu

It is perhaps no longer surprising that machine learning models, especially deep neural networks, are particularly vulnerable to attacks. One such vulnerability that has been well studied is model extraction: a phenomenon in which the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Tejumade Afonja , Lucas Bourtoule , Varun Chandrasekaran , Sageev Oore , Nicolas Papernot