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Entertainment-oriented singing voice synthesis (SVS) requires a vocoder to generate high-fidelity (e.g. 48kHz) audio. However, most text-to-speech (TTS) vocoders cannot reconstruct the waveform well in this scenario. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Chunhui Wang , Chang Zeng , Jun Chen , Xing He

Classical parametric speech coding techniques provide a compact representation for speech signals. This affords a very low transmission rate but with a reduced perceptual quality of the reconstructed signals. Recently, autoregressive deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Ahmed Mustafa , Arijit Biswas , Christian Bergler , Julia Schottenhamml , Andreas Maier

We propose Relativistic Adversarial Feedback (RAF), a novel training objective for GAN vocoders that improves in-domain fidelity and generalization to unseen scenarios. Although modern GAN vocoders employ advanced architectures, their…

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In this paper, in order to further deal with the performance degradation caused by ignoring the phase information in conventional speech enhancement systems, we proposed a temporal dilated convolutional generative adversarial network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Shuaishuai Ye , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the visual quality of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Even so, these networks still suffer from degradation in quality for high-frequency content, stemming from a spectrally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Rinon Gal , Dana Cohen , Amit Bermano , Daniel Cohen-Or

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

The development of neural vocoders (NVs) has resulted in the high-quality and fast generation of waveforms. However, conventional NVs target a single sampling rate and require re-training when applied to different sampling rates. A suitable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Kentaro Mitsui , Kei Sawada

We introduce the Probabilistic Generative Adversarial Network (PGAN), a new GAN variant based on a new kind of objective function. The central idea is to integrate a probabilistic model (a Gaussian Mixture Model, in our case) into the GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

To effectively process impulse noise for narrowband powerline communications (NB-PLCs) transceivers, capturing comprehensive statistics of nonperiodic asynchronous impulsive noise (APIN) is a critical task. However, existing mathematical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Ying-Ren Chien , Po-Heng Chou , You-Jie Peng , Chun-Yuan Huang , Hen-Wai Tsao , Yu Tsao

In recent years, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have made significant progress in generating audio sequences. However, these models typically rely on bandwidth-limited mel-spectrograms, which constrain the resolution of generated…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zeeshan Ahmad , Shudi Bao , Meng Chen

In recent years, large-scale pre-trained speech language models (SLMs) have demonstrated remarkable advancements in various generative speech modeling applications, such as text-to-speech synthesis, voice conversion, and speech enhancement.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

Voice conversion is to generate a new speech with the source content and a target voice style. In this paper, we focus on one general setting, i.e., non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion, which is close to the real-world scenario. As…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jian Ma , Zhedong Zheng , Hao Fei , Feng Zheng , Tat-seng Chua , Yi Yang

Advanced Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are remarkable in generating intelligible audio from a random latent vector. In this paper, we examine the task of recovering the latent vector of both synthesized and real audio. Previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Andrew Keyes , Nicky Bayat , Vahid Reza Khazaie , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Machine Learning, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), has revolutionised Super-Resolution (SR). However, generated images often lack physical meaningfulness, which is essential for scientific applications. Our approach,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Md Rakibul Hasan , Pouria Behnoudfar , Dan MacKinlay , Thomas Poulet

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

Modeling and synthesizing real sRGB noise is crucial for various low-level vision tasks, such as building datasets for training image denoising systems. The distribution of real sRGB noise is highly complex and affected by a multitude of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Young Joo Han , Ha-Jin Yu

In the generator of typical Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), a noise is inputted to generate fake samples via a series of convolutional operations. However, current noise generation models merely relies on the information from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Shaoning Zeng , Bob Zhang

We propose Universal MelGAN, a vocoder that synthesizes high-fidelity speech in multiple domains. To preserve sound quality when the MelGAN-based structure is trained with a dataset of hundreds of speakers, we added multi-resolution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Won Jang , Dan Lim , Jaesam Yoon

The performance of speech processing models trained on clean speech drops significantly in noisy conditions. Training with noisy datasets alleviates the problem, but procuring such datasets is not always feasible. Noisy speech simulation…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Leander Melroy Maben , Zixun Guo , Chen Chen , Utkarsh Chudiwal , Chng Eng Siong