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Previous works (Donahue et al., 2018a; Engel et al., 2019a) have found that generating coherent raw audio waveforms with GANs is challenging. In this paper, we show that it is possible to train GANs reliably to generate high quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Kundan Kumar , Rithesh Kumar , Thibault de Boissiere , Lucas Gestin , Wei Zhen Teoh , Jose Sotelo , Alexandre de Brebisson , Yoshua Bengio , Aaron Courville

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a powerful approach to unsupervised learning. They have achieved state-of-the-art performance in the image domain. However, GANs are limited in two ways. They often learn distributions with low…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Adji B. Dieng , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , David M. Blei , Michalis K. Titsias

We propose a unified signal compression framework that uses a generative adversarial network (GAN) to compress heterogeneous signals. The compressed signal is represented as a latent vector and fed into a generator network that is trained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Bowen Liu , Changwoo Lee , Ang Cao , Hun-Seok Kim

Recent neural networks such as WaveNet and sampleRNN that learn directly from speech waveform samples have achieved very high-quality synthetic speech in terms of both naturalness and speaker similarity even in multi-speaker text-to-speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Yi Zhao , Shinji Takaki , Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi , Daisuke Saito , Nobuaki Minematsu

This paper proposes voicing-aware conditional discriminators for Parallel WaveGAN-based waveform synthesis systems. In this framework, we adopt a projection-based conditioning method that can significantly improve the discriminator's…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Ryuichi Yamamoto , Eunwoo Song , Min-Jae Hwang , Jae-Min Kim

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

Recently, mainstream mel-spectrogram-based neural vocoders rely on generative adversarial network (GAN) for high-fidelity speech generation, e.g., HiFi-GAN and BigVGAN. However, the use of GAN restricts training efficiency and model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Hui-Peng Du , Yang Ai , Rui-Chen Zheng , Ye-Xin Lu , Zhen-Hua Ling

Generative adversarial network (GAN) still exists some problems in dealing with speech enhancement (SE) task. Some GAN-based systems adopt the same structure from Pixel-to-Pixel directly without special optimization. The importance of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Huixiang Huang , Renjie Wu , Jingbiao Huang , Jucai Lin , Jun Yin

Speech enhancement is an essential task of improving speech quality in noise scenario. Several state-of-the-art approaches have introduced visual information for speech enhancement,since the visual aspect of speech is essentially unaffected…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Xinmeng Xu , Yang Wang , Dongxiang Xu , Yiyuan Peng , Cong Zhang , Jie Jia , Binbin Chen

Unsupervised learning with generative adversarial networks (GANs) has proven hugely successful. Regular GANs hypothesize the discriminator as a classifier with the sigmoid cross entropy loss function. However, we found that this loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Xudong Mao , Qing Li , Haoran Xie , Raymond Y. K. Lau , Zhen Wang , Stephen Paul Smolley

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

We introduce EffiFusion-GAN (Efficient Fusion Generative Adversarial Network), a lightweight yet powerful model for speech enhancement. The model integrates depthwise separable convolutions within a multi-scale block to capture diverse…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Bin Wen , Tien-Ping Tan

Recent advances in neural network -based text-to-speech have reached human level naturalness in synthetic speech. The present sequence-to-sequence models can directly map text to mel-spectrogram acoustic features, which are convenient for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Lauri Juvela , Bajibabu Bollepalli , Junichi Yamagishi , Paavo Alku

We investigate the effectiveness of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for speech enhancement, in the context of improving noise robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Prior work demonstrates that GANs can effectively…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Chris Donahue , Bo Li , Rohit Prabhavalkar

Recent work has shown that it is feasible to use generative adversarial networks (GANs) for speech enhancement, however, these approaches have not been compared to state-of-the-art (SOTA) non GAN-based approaches. Additionally, many loss…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Zhuohuang Zhang , Chengyun Deng , Yi Shen , Donald S. Williamson , Yongtao Sha , Yi Zhang , Hui Song , Xiangang Li

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful models able to synthesize data samples closely resembling the distribution of real data, yet the diversity of those generated samples is limited due to the so-called mode collapse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Jan Dubiński , Kamil Deja , Sandro Wenzel , Przemysław Rokita , Tomasz Trzciński

A method for statistical parametric speech synthesis incorporating generative adversarial networks (GANs) is proposed. Although powerful deep neural networks (DNNs) techniques can be applied to artificially synthesize speech waveform, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Perturbative GAN, which replaces convolution layers of existing convolutional GANs (DCGAN, WGAN-GP, BIGGAN, etc.) with perturbation layers that adds a fixed noise mask, is proposed. Compared with the convolu-tional GANs, the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Yuma Kishi , Tsutomu Ikegami , Shin-ichi O'uchi , Ryousei Takano , Wakana Nogami , Tomohiro Kudoh

Neural vocoders based on the generative adversarial neural network (GAN) have been widely used due to their fast inference speed and lightweight networks while generating high-quality speech waveforms. Since the perceptually important…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Taejun Bak , Junmo Lee , Hanbin Bae , Jinhyeok Yang , Jae-Sung Bae , Young-Sun Joo

We propose a new framework to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in resource-scarce environments using a generative adversarial network (GAN) operating on acoustic input features. The GAN is used to enhance the features of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Walter Heymans , Marelie H. Davel , Charl van Heerden