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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great promise recently in image generation. Training GANs for language generation has proven to be more difficult, because of the non-differentiable nature of generating text with recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Ofir Press , Amir Bar , Ben Bogin , Jonathan Berant , Lior Wolf

Signal measurements appearing in the form of time series are one of the most common types of data used in medical machine learning applications. However, such datasets are often small, making the training of deep neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Xiaomin Li , Vangelis Metsis , Huangyingrui Wang , Anne Hee Hiong Ngu

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a hot topic among researchers and engineers that work with deep learning. It has been a ground-breaking technique which can generate new pieces of content of data in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Parthak Mehta , Sarthak Mishra , Nikhil Chouhan , Neel Pethani , Ishani Saha

To simplify the generation process, several text-to-speech (TTS) systems implicitly learn intermediate latent representations instead of relying on predefined features (e.g., mel-spectrogram). However, their generation quality is…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Hyungchan Yoon , Seyun Um , Changwhan Kim , Hong-Goo Kang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are gaining increasing attention as a means for synthesising data. So far much of this work has been applied to use cases outside of the data confidentiality domain with a common application being the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Claire Little , Mark Elliot , Richard Allmendinger , Sahel Shariati Samani

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

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

A natural image usually conveys rich semantic content and can be viewed from different angles. Existing image description methods are largely restricted by small sets of biased visual paragraph annotations, and fail to cover rich underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Xiaodan Liang , Zhiting Hu , Hao Zhang , Chuang Gan , Eric P. Xing

With the advancement of speech synthesis technology, users have higher expectations for the naturalness and expressiveness of synthesized speech. But previous research ignores the importance of prompt selection. This study proposes a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Dan Luo , Chengyuan Ma , Weiqin Li , Jun Wang , Wei Chen , Zhiyong Wu

Speech is a means of communication which relies on both audio and visual information. The absence of one modality can often lead to confusion or misinterpretation of information. In this paper we present an end-to-end temporal model capable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-17 Konstantinos Vougioukas , Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

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

The rapid progress in personalized speech generation technology, including personalized text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC), poses a challenge in distinguishing between generated and real speech for human listeners, resulting in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Shihao Chen , Liping Chen , Jie Zhang , KongAik Lee , Zhenhua Ling , Lirong Dai

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have revolutionized image synthesis through many applications like face generation, photograph editing, and image super-resolution. Image synthesis using GANs has predominantly been uni-modal, with few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Rohan Wadhawan , Tanuj Drall , Shubham Singh , Shampa Chakraverty

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a recent advancement in unsupervised machine learning. They are a cat-and-mouse game between two neural networks: [1] a discriminator network which learns to validate whether a sample is real or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-23 Olivia Curtis , Tereasa G. Brainerd

The generative adversarial network (GAN) has shown its outstanding capability in improving Non-Autoregressive TTS (NAR-TTS) by adversarially training it with an extra model that discriminates between the real and the generated speech. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Haohan Guo , Hui Lu , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

Time-frequency (TF) representations provide powerful and intuitive features for the analysis of time series such as audio. But still, generative modeling of audio in the TF domain is a subtle matter. Consequently, neural audio synthesis…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Andrés Marafioti , Nicki Holighaus , Nathanaël Perraudin , Piotr Majdak

While pre-trained automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems demonstrate impressive performance on matched domains, their performance often degrades when confronted with channel mismatch stemming from unseen recording environments and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Chien-Chun Wang , Li-Wei Chen , Cheng-Kang Chou , Hung-Shin Lee , Berlin Chen , Hsin-Min Wang

A text-to-speech (TTS) model trained to reconstruct speech given text tends towards predictions that are close to the average characteristics of a dataset, failing to model the variations that make human speech sound natural. This problem…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 John Janiczek , Dading Chong , Dongyang Dai , Arlo Faria , Chao Wang , Tao Wang , Yuzong Liu

In this paper, we explore machine translation improvement via Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture. We take inspiration from RelGAN, a model for text generation, and NMT-GAN, an adversarial machine translation model, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jay Ahn , Hari Madhu , Viet Nguyen

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