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We propose an adversarial learning approach for generating multi-turn dialogue responses. Our proposed framework, hredGAN, is based on conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs). The GAN's generator is a modified hierarchical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Oluwatobi Olabiyi , Alan Salimov , Anish Khazane , Erik T. Mueller

In this work, we propose a new mathematical vocoder algorithm(modified spectral inversion) that generates a waveform from acoustic features without phase estimation. The main benefit of using our proposed method is that it excludes the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Hyun Gon Ryu , Jeong-Hoon Kim , Simon See

Recently, denoising diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance among generative models in various domains. However, in the speech domain, the application of diffusion models for synthesizing time-varying audio faces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Ji-Sang Hwang , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

We propose a learning-based filter that allows us to directly modify a synthetic speech waveform into a natural speech waveform. Speech-processing systems using a vocoder framework such as statistical parametric speech synthesis and voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-02 Kou Tanaka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Nobukatsu Hojo , Hirokazu Kameoka

In a recent paper, we have presented a generative adversarial network (GAN)-based model for unconditional generation of the mel-spectrograms of singing voices. As the generator of the model is designed to take a variable-length sequence of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Jen-Yu Liu , Yu-Hua Chen , Yin-Cheng Yeh , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks (QGANs), an intersection of quantum computing and machine learning, have attracted widespread attention due to their potential advantages over classical analogs. However, in the current era of Noisy…

Previous audio generation mainly focuses on specified sound classes such as speech or music, whose form and content are greatly restricted. In this paper, we go beyond specific audio generation by using natural language description as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Guangwei Li , Xuenan Xu , Lingfeng Dai , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Recent advances in generative speech have increased the need for automatic detection of obviously failed synthetic outputs. This is particularly important in clinical settings such as AVATAR therapy, in which schizophrenia patients engage…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Jana Shokr , Minos Papadopoulos , Jeremy Cooperstock , Pavo Orepic

In recent works, a flow-based neural vocoder has shown significant improvement in real-time speech generation task. The sequence of invertible flow operations allows the model to convert samples from simple distribution to audio samples.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Hyun-Wook Yoon , Sang-Hoon Lee , Hyeong-Rae Noh , Seong-Whan Lee

Speech Enhancement techniques have become core technologies in mobile devices and voice software. Still, modern deep learning solutions often require high amount of computational resources what makes their usage on low-resource devices…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ekaterina Dmitrieva , Maksim Kaledin

Generative adversarial networks have recently demonstrated outstanding performance in neural vocoding outperforming best autoregressive and flow-based models. In this paper, we show that this success can be extended to other tasks of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Pavel Andreev , Aibek Alanov , Oleg Ivanov , Dmitry Vetrov

Recent advances in AI-generated voices have intensified the challenge of detecting deepfake audio, posing risks for scams and the spread of disinformation. To tackle this issue, we establish the largest public voice dataset to date, named…

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

Speech enhancement aims to obtain speech signals with high intelligibility and quality from noisy speech. Recent work has demonstrated the excellent performance of time-domain deep learning methods, such as Conv-TasNet. However, these…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Feiyang Xiao , Jian Guan , Qiuqiang Kong , Wenwu Wang

Most existing neural network models for music generation use recurrent neural networks. However, the recent WaveNet model proposed by DeepMind shows that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can also generate realistic musical waveforms in…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Li-Chia Yang , Szu-Yu Chou , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Recent improvements in Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANs) have shown their ability to generate higher quality samples as well as to learn good representations for transfer learning. Most of the representation learning methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Kazi Nazmul Haque , Rajib Rana , John H. L. Hansen , Björn Schuller

We propose a unified approach to data-driven source-filter modeling using a single neural network for developing a neural vocoder capable of generating high-quality synthetic speech waveforms while retaining flexibility of the source-filter…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Reo Yoneyama , Yi-Chiao Wu , Tomoki Toda

This paper presents an end-to-end text-to-speech system with low latency on a CPU, suitable for real-time applications. The system is composed of an autoregressive attention-based sequence-to-sequence acoustic model and the LPCNet vocoder…

Modern audio generation predominantly relies on latent-space compression, introducing additional complexity and potential information loss. In this work, we challenge this paradigm with WavFlow, a framework that generates high-fidelity…

In recent years, the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has become very popular in generative image modeling. While style-based GAN architectures yield state-of-the-art results in high-fidelity image synthesis, computationally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Sergei Belousov