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Most state-of-the-art Text-to-Speech systems use the mel-spectrogram as an intermediate representation, to decompose the task into acoustic modelling and waveform generation. A mel-spectrogram is extracted from the waveform by a simple,…

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants exhibit state-of-the-art performance in the class of generative models. To capture higher-dimensional distributions, the common learning procedure requires high computational complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Xingwei Cao , Xuyang Zhao , Qibin Zhao

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

This paper introduces an improved generative model for statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) based on WaveNet under a multi-task learning framework. Different from the original WaveNet model, the proposed Multi-task WaveNet employs…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-25 Yu Gu , Yongguo Kang

Recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence have fueled numerous applications, particularly those involving Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), which are essential for synthesizing realistic photos and videos. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Ziji Shi , Jialin Li , Yang You

Sequential models achieve state-of-the-art results in audio, visual and textual domains with respect to both estimating the data distribution and generating high-quality samples. Efficient sampling for this class of models has however…

In this paper, we propose GlyphGAN: style-consistent font generation based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). GANs are a framework for learning a generative model using a system of two neural networks competing with each other. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Hideaki Hayashi , Kohtaro Abe , Seiichi Uchida

Recent approaches in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis employ neural network strategies to vocode perceptually-informed spectrogram representations directly into listenable waveforms. Such vocoding procedures create a computational bottleneck…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Paarth Neekhara , Chris Donahue , Miller Puckette , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley

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

Current Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-based approaches for time series generation face challenges such as suboptimal convergence, information loss in embedding spaces, and instability. To overcome these challenges, we introduce an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 MohammadReza EskandariNasab , Shah Muhammad Hamdi , Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi

Generating qualitative responses has always been a challenge for human-computer dialogue systems. Existing dialogue systems generally derive from either retrieval-based or generative-based approaches, both of which have their own pros and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Jiayi Zhang , Chongyang Tao , Zhenjing Xu , Qiaojing Xie , Wei Chen , Rui Yan

In this work, we propose WaveFlow, a small-footprint generative flow for raw audio, which is directly trained with maximum likelihood. It handles the long-range structure of 1-D waveform with a dilated 2-D convolutional architecture, while…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Wei Ping , Kainan Peng , Kexin Zhao , Zhao Song

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…

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have a great performance in image generation, but they need a large scale of data to train the entire framework, and often result in nonsensical results. We propose a new method referring to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Jinxuan Sun , Guoqiang Zhong , Yang Chen , Yongbin Liu , Tao Li , Zhongwen Guo

Bubble segmentation and size detection algorithms have been developed in recent years for their high efficiency and accuracy in measuring bubbly two-phase flows. In this work, we proposed an architecture called bubble generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Yucheng Fu , Yang Liu

This paper addresses the problem of remote sensing image pan-sharpening from the perspective of generative adversarial learning. We propose a novel deep neural network based method named PSGAN. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Qingjie Liu , Huanyu Zhou , Qizhi Xu , Xiangyu Liu , Yunhong Wang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are challenging to train stably, and a promising remedy of injecting instance noise into the discriminator input has not been very effective in practice. In this paper, we propose Diffusion-GAN, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zhendong Wang , Huangjie Zheng , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Deep generative models have been successfully applied to many applications. However, existing works experience limitations when generating large images (the literature usually generates small images, e.g. 32 * 32 or 128 * 128). In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zihan Ding , Xiao-Yang Liu , Miao Yin , Linghe Kong

Video-to-speech is the process of reconstructing the audio speech from a video of a spoken utterance. Previous approaches to this task have relied on a two-step process where an intermediate representation is inferred from the video, and is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Rodrigo Mira , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Björn W. Schuller , Maja Pantic

Synthetic data generation to improve classification performance (data augmentation) is a well-studied problem. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GAN) have shown superior image data augmentation performance, but their suitability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Mehran Maghoumi , Eugene M. Taranta , Joseph J. LaViola