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Use a parametric representation of audio to train a generative model in the interest of obtaining more flexible control over the generated sound.

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Krishna Subramani , Alexandre D'Hooge , Preeti Rao

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

We present a novel learning-based modal sound synthesis approach that includes a mixed vibration solver for modal analysis and an end-to-end sound radiation network for acoustic transfer. Our mixed vibration solver consists of a 3D sparse…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Xutong Jin , Sheng Li , Guoping Wang , Dinesh Manocha

Sound synthesis is a complex field that requires domain expertise. Manual tuning of synthesizer parameters to match a specific sound can be an exhaustive task, even for experienced sound engineers. In this paper, we introduce InverSynth -…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Oren Barkan , David Tsiris , Ori Katz , Noam Koenigstein

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

Deep generative models have recently achieved impressive performance in speech and music synthesis. However, compared to the generation of those domain-specific sounds, generating general sounds (such as siren, gunshots) has received less…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Xubo Liu , Turab Iqbal , Jinzheng Zhao , Qiushi Huang , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

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…

Timbre spaces have been used in music perception to study the perceptual relationships between instruments based on dissimilarity ratings. However, these spaces do not generalize to novel examples and do not provide an invertible mapping,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Philippe Esling , Axel Chemla--Romeu-Santos , Adrien Bitton

Algorithmic music composition is a way of composing musical pieces with minimal to no human intervention. While recurrent neural networks are traditionally applied to many sequence-to-sequence prediction tasks, including successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Moseli Mots'oehli , Anna Sergeevna Bosman , Johan Pieter De Villiers

Creating aesthetically pleasing pieces of art, including music, has been a long-term goal for artificial intelligence research. Despite recent successes of long-short term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Zheng Sun , Jiaqi Liu , Zewang Zhang , Jingwen Chen , Zhao Huo , Ching Hua Lee , Xiao Zhang

A Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) for audio synthesis is trained by augmenting the audio input with information about signal characteristics such as pitch, amplitude, and instrument. The result after training is an audio synthesizer that is…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Lonce Wyse

This paper proposes a hierarchical generative model with a multi-grained latent variable to synthesize expressive speech. In recent years, fine-grained latent variables are introduced into the text-to-speech synthesis that enable the fine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Yukiya Hono , Kazuna Tsuboi , Kei Sawada , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Generative diffusion models have emerged as leading models in speech and image generation. However, in order to perform well with a small number of denoising steps, a costly tuning of the set of noise parameters is needed. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Robin San-Roman , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

A new framework is presented for generating musical audio using autoencoder neural networks. With the presented framework, called network modulation synthesis, users can create synthesis architectures and use novel generative algorithms to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jeremy Hyrkas

We present a generative neural network which enables us to generate plausible 3D indoor scenes in large quantities and varieties, easily and highly efficiently. Our key observation is that indoor scene structures are inherently…

The present paper describes singing voice synthesis based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Singing voice synthesis systems based on deep neural networks (DNNs) are currently being proposed and are improving the naturalness of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Kazuhiro Nakamura , Shinji Takaki , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Enhancing speech signal quality in adverse acoustic environments is a persistent challenge in speech processing. Existing deep learning based enhancement methods often struggle to effectively remove background noise and reverberation in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Heming Wang , Meng Yu , Hao Zhang , Chunlei Zhang , Zhongweiyang Xu , Muqiao Yang , Yixuan Zhang , Dong Yu

An ideal music synthesizer should be both interactive and expressive, generating high-fidelity audio in realtime for arbitrary combinations of instruments and notes. Recent neural synthesizers have exhibited a tradeoff between…

Texture synthesis techniques based on matching the Gram matrix of feature activations in neural networks have achieved spectacular success in the image domain. In this paper we extend these techniques to the audio domain. We demonstrate…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Joseph Antognini , Matt Hoffman , Ron J. Weiss

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