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Vocoders reconstruct speech waveforms from acoustic features and play a pivotal role in modern TTS systems. Frequent-domain GAN vocoders like Vocos and APNet2 have recently seen rapid advancements, outperforming time-domain models in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yuanjun Lv , Hai Li , Ying Yan , Junhui Liu , Danming Xie , Lei Xie

Packet loss is a major cause of voice quality degradation in VoIP transmissions with serious impact on intelligibility and user experience. This paper describes a system based on a generative adversarial approach, which aims to repair the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Carlo Aironi , Samuele Cornell , Luca Serafini , Stefano Squartini

Self-supervised pretraining for Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) has shown varied degrees of success. In this paper, we propose to jointly learn representations during pretraining from two different modalities: speech and text. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Zhehuai Chen , Yu Zhang , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Gary Wang , Pedro Moreno

Generative adversarial networks have seen rapid development in recent years and have led to remarkable improvements in generative modelling of images. However, their application in the audio domain has received limited attention, and…

We present a novel high-fidelity real-time neural vocoder called VocGAN. A recently developed GAN-based vocoder, MelGAN, produces speech waveforms in real-time. However, it often produces a waveform that is insufficient in quality or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Jinhyeok Yang , Junmo Lee , Youngik Kim , Hoonyoung Cho , Injung Kim

GAN vocoders are currently one of the state-of-the-art methods for building high-quality neural waveform generative models. However, most of their architectures require dozens of billion floating-point operations per second (GFLOPS) to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Ahmed Mustafa , Jean-Marc Valin , Jan Büthe , Paris Smaragdis , Mike Goodwin

Deep learning based single-channel speech enhancement tries to train a neural network model for the prediction of clean speech signal. There are a variety of popular network structures for single-channel speech enhancement, such as TCNN,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Xupeng Jia , Dongmei Li

Recently, synthesizing personalized speech by text-to-speech (TTS) application is highly demanded. But the previous TTS models require a mass of target speaker speeches for training. It is a high-cost task, and hard to record lots of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis aims to clone any unseen speaker's voice without adaptation parameters. By quantizing speech waveform into discrete acoustic tokens and modeling these tokens with the language model, recent language…

Although supervised learning based on a deep neural network has recently achieved substantial improvement on speech enhancement, the existing schemes have either of two critical issues: spectrum or metric mismatches. The spectrum mismatch…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jaeyoung Kim , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee

Unsupervised and self-supervised learning methods have leveraged unlabelled data to improve the pretrained models. However, these methods need significantly large amount of unlabelled data and the computational cost of training models with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Utkarsh Chauhan , Vikas Joshi , Rupesh R. Mehta

This paper proposes a deep multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) model for spoofing speaker verification (SV) systems. The proposed model employs one network to synthesize time-downsampled mel-spectrograms from text input and another network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-30 Mingrui Yuan , Zhiyao Duan

In this paper, we address the problem of multichannel speech enhancement in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. A long short-time memory (LSTM) network takes as input a sequence of STFT coefficients associated with a frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Xiaofei LI , Radu Horaud

Recent advancement in Generative Adversarial Networks in speech synthesis domain[3],[2] have shown, that it's possible to train GANs [8] in a reliable manner for high quality coherent waveform generation from mel-spectograms. We propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Luka Chkhetiani , Levan Bejanidze

This study proposes a segmental-level prosodic probing framework to evaluate neural TTS models' ability to reproduce consonant-induced f0 perturbation, a fine-grained segmental-prosodic effect that reflects local articulatory mechanisms. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tianle Yang , Chengzhe Sun , Phil Rose , Cassandra L. Jacobs , Siwei Lyu

In this paper, we integrate a simple non-parallel voice conversion (VC) system with a WaveNet (WN) vocoder and a proposed collapsed speech suppression technique. The effectiveness of WN as a vocoder for generating high-fidelity speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Yi-Chiao Wu , Patrick Lumban Tobing , Kazuhiro Kobayashi , Tomoki Hayashi , Tomoki Toda

Typically, voice conversion is regarded as an engineering problem with limited training data. The reliance on massive amounts of data hinders the practical applicability of deep learning approaches, which have been extensively researched in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Mohamadreza Jafaryani , Hamid Sheikhzadeh , Vahid Pourahmadi

This paper presents ByteSing, a Chinese singing voice synthesis (SVS) system based on duration allocated Tacotron-like acoustic models and WaveRNN neural vocoders. Different from the conventional SVS models, the proposed ByteSing employs…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Yu Gu , Xiang Yin , Yonghui Rao , Yuan Wan , Benlai Tang , Yang Zhang , Jitong Chen , Yuxuan Wang , Zejun Ma

Recently, GAN-based neural vocoders such as Parallel WaveGAN, MelGAN, HiFiGAN, and UnivNet have become popular due to their lightweight and parallel structure, resulting in a real-time synthesized waveform with high fidelity, even on a CPU.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yi Wang , Yi Si

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