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With the rapid development of neural network architectures and speech processing models, singing voice synthesis with neural networks is becoming the cutting-edge technique of digital music production. In this work, in order to explore how…

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Voice cloning is a highly desired feature for personalized speech interfaces. Neural network based speech synthesis has been shown to generate high quality speech for a large number of speakers. In this paper, we introduce a neural voice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Sercan O. Arik , Jitong Chen , Kainan Peng , Wei Ping , Yanqi Zhou

Neural audio codecs (NACs) typically encode the short-term energy (gain) and normalized structure (shape) of speech/audio signals jointly within the same latent space. As a result, they are poorly robust to a global variation of the input…

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Reliable communication over noisy channels requires the design of specialized error-correcting codes (ECCs) tailored to specific system requirements. Recently, neural network-based decoders have emerged as promising tools for enhancing ECC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Anastasiia Kurmukova , Selim F. Yilmaz , Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

Speech enhancement is a task to improve the intelligibility and perceptual quality of degraded speech signal. Recently, neural networks based methods have been applied to speech enhancement. However, many neural network based methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Qiuqiang Kong , Haohe Liu , Xingjian Du , Li Chen , Rui Xia , Yuxuan Wang

Existing deep learning based speech enhancement mainly employ a data-driven approach, which leverage large amounts of data with a variety of noise types to achieve noise removal from noisy signal. However, the high dependence on the data…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Huaying Xue , Xiulian Peng , Yan Lu

As a foundational technology for intelligent human-computer interaction, voice conversion (VC) seeks to transform speech from any source timbre into any target timbre. Traditional voice conversion methods based on Generative Adversarial…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wenhan Yao , Fen Xiao , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , YongQiang He , Weiping Wen

This paper presents a method of decoupled pronunciation and prosody modeling to improve the performance of meta-learning-based multilingual speech synthesis. The baseline meta-learning synthesis method adopts a single text encoder with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Yukun Peng , Zhenhua Ling

The primary characteristic of robust speaker representations is that they are invariant to factors of variability not related to speaker identity. Disentanglement of speaker representations is one of the techniques used to improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Raghuveer Peri , Haoqi Li , Krishna Somandepalli , Arindam Jati , Shrikanth Narayanan

Spatial frequency analysis and transforms serve a central role in most engineered image and video lossy codecs, but are rarely employed in neural network (NN)-based approaches. We propose a novel NN-based image coding framework that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Hyomin Choi , Fabien Racape , Shahab Hamidi-Rad , Mateen Ulhaq , Simon Feltman

Noise suppression systems generally produce output speech with compromised quality. We propose to utilize the high quality speech generation capability of neural vocoders for noise suppression. We use a neural network to predict clean…

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This paper introduces a novel algorithm designed for speech synthesis from neural activity recordings obtained using invasive electroencephalography (EEG) techniques. The proposed system offers a promising communication solution for…

Low and ultra-low-bitrate neural speech coding achieves unprecedented coding gain by generating speech signals from compact speech features. This paper introduces additional coding efficiency in neural speech coding by reducing the temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Haici Yang , Wootaek Lim , Minje Kim

We propose noise-robust voice conversion (VC) which takes into account the recording quality and environment of noisy source speech. Conventional denoising training improves the noise robustness of a VC model by learning noisy-to-clean VC…

While recent neural encoder-decoder models have shown great promise in modeling open-domain conversations, they often generate dull and generic responses. Unlike past work that has focused on diversifying the output of the decoder at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Tiancheng Zhao , Ran Zhao , Maxine Eskenazi

This study proposes a fully convolutional network (FCN) model for raw waveform-based speech enhancement. The proposed system performs speech enhancement in an end-to-end (i.e., waveform-in and waveform-out) manner, which dif-fers from most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-16 Szu-Wei Fu , Yu Tsao , Xugang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

By combining the undecimated wavelet transform within a Word Embedded Semantic Marginal Autoencoder (WESMA), this research study provides a novel strategy for improving security measures and denoising multiple languages. The incorporation…

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We introduce Noise Recycling, a method that enhances decoding performance of channels subject to correlated noise without joint decoding. The method can be used with any combination of codes, code-rates and decoding techniques. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Alejandro Cohen , Amit Solomon , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

In this paper, we present a novel system that separates the voice of a target speaker from multi-speaker signals, by making use of a reference signal from the target speaker. We achieve this by training two separate neural networks: (1) A…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Quan Wang , Hannah Muckenhirn , Kevin Wilson , Prashant Sridhar , Zelin Wu , John Hershey , Rif A. Saurous , Ron J. Weiss , Ye Jia , Ignacio Lopez Moreno