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This paper presents a simple method for speech videos generation based on audio: given a piece of audio, we can generate a video of the target face speaking this audio. We propose Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) with cut speech audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Hanhaodi Zhang

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

Generative adversarial networks have been proposed as a way of efficiently training deep generative neural networks. We propose a generative adversarial model that works on continuous sequential data, and apply it by training it on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Olof Mogren

Generative adversarial network (GAN) has achieved impressive success on cross-domain generation, but it faces difficulty in cross-modal generation due to the lack of a common distribution between heterogeneous data. Most existing methods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Wen-Cheng Chen , Chien-Wen Chen , Min-Chun Hu

This paper presents a deep learning-based approach for the spatio-temporal reconstruction of sound fields using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The method utilises a plane wave basis and learns the underlying statistical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Xenofon Karakonstantis , Efren Fernandez-Grande

The generative adversarial network (GAN) framework has emerged as a powerful tool for various image and video synthesis tasks, allowing the synthesis of visual content in an unconditional or input-conditional manner. It has enabled the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ming-Yu Liu , Xun Huang , Jiahui Yu , Ting-Chun Wang , Arun Mallya

Audio coding is an essential module in the real-time communication system. Neural audio codecs can compress audio samples with a low bitrate due to the strong modeling and generative capabilities of deep neural networks. To address the poor…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Wenzhe Liu , Wei Xiao , Meng Wang , Shan Yang , Yupeng Shi , Yuyong Kang , Dan Su , Shidong Shang , Dong Yu

Non-parallel voice conversion aims to convert voice from a source domain to a target domain without paired training data. Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks (CycleGAN) and Variational Autoencoders (VAE) have been used for this…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Maharnab Saikia

Although state-of-the-art parallel WaveNet has addressed the issue of real-time waveform generation, there remains problems. Firstly, due to the noisy input signal of the model, there is still a gap between the quality of generated and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Qiao Tian , Xucheng Wan , Shan Liu

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

Generative adversarial network (GAN)-based neural vocoders have been widely used in audio synthesis tasks due to their high generation quality, efficient inference, and small computation footprint. However, it is still challenging to train…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Sipan Li , Songxiang Liu , Luwen Zhang , Xiang Li , Yanyao Bian , Chao Weng , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng

Recently, GAN vocoders have seen rapid progress in speech synthesis, starting to outperform autoregressive models in perceptual quality with much higher generation speed. However, autoregressive vocoders are still the common choice for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Ahmed Mustafa , Jan Büthe , Srikanth Korse , Kishan Gupta , Guillaume Fuchs , Nicola Pia

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has achieved great success in generating realistic (real-valued) synthetic data. However, convergence issues and difficulties dealing with discrete data hinder the applicability of GAN to text. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Yizhe Zhang , Zhe Gan , Kai Fan , Zhi Chen , Ricardo Henao , Dinghan Shen , Lawrence Carin

Deep generative models have achieved significant progress in speech synthesis to date, while high-fidelity singing voice synthesis is still an open problem for its long continuous pronunciation, rich high-frequency parts, and strong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-08 Rongjie Huang , Chenye Cui , Feiyang Chen , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Zhou Zhao , Baoxing Huai , Zhefeng Wang

Recent approaches in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis employ neural network strategies to vocode perceptually-informed spectrogram representations directly into listenable waveforms. Such vocoding procedures create a computational bottleneck…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Paarth Neekhara , Chris Donahue , Miller Puckette , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley

Besides the well-known classification task, these days neural networks are frequently being applied to generate or transform data, such as images and audio signals. In such tasks, the conventional loss functions like the mean squared error…

Most GAN(Generative Adversarial Network)-based approaches towards high-fidelity waveform generation heavily rely on discriminators to improve their performance. However, GAN methods introduce much uncertainty into the generation process and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shengyuan Xu , Wenxiao Zhao , Jing Guo

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

This paper presents BemaGANv2, an advanced GAN-based vocoder designed for high-fidelity and long-term audio generation, with a focus on systematic evaluation of discriminator combination strategies. Long-term audio generation is critical…

Voice conversion (VC) refers to transforming the speaker characteristics of an utterance without altering its linguistic contents. Many works on voice conversion require to have parallel training data that is highly expensive to acquire.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Shindong Lee , BongGu Ko , Keonnyeong Lee , In-Chul Yoo , Dongsuk Yook