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Speech Bandwidth Extension improves clarity and intelligibility by restoring/inferring appropriate high-frequency content for low-bandwidth speech. Existing methods often rely on spectrogram or waveform modeling, which can incur higher…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Bowen Zhang , Junchuan Zhao , Ian McLoughlin , Ye Wang , A S Madhukumar

Neural codecs have demonstrated strong performance in high-fidelity compression of audio signals at low bitrates. The token-based representations produced by these codecs have proven particularly useful for generative modeling. While much…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Patrick O'Reilly , Prem Seetharaman , Jiaqi Su , Zeyu Jin , Bryan Pardo

Although discrete speech tokens have exhibited strong potential for language model-based speech generation, their high bitrates and redundant timbre information restrict the development of such models. In this work, we propose LSCodec, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Yiwei Guo , Zhihan Li , Chenpeng Du , Hankun Wang , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Language models have been effectively applied to modeling natural signals, such as images, video, speech, and audio. A crucial component of these models is the codec tokenizer, which compresses high-dimensional natural signals into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Shengpeng Ji , Ziyue Jiang , Wen Wang , Yifu Chen , Minghui Fang , Jialong Zuo , Qian Yang , Xize Cheng , Zehan Wang , Ruiqi Li , Ziang Zhang , Xiaoda Yang , Rongjie Huang , Yidi Jiang , Qian Chen , Siqi Zheng , Zhou Zhao

Vocoders received renewed attention as main components in statistical parametric text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis and speech transformation systems. Even though there are vocoding techniques give almost accepted synthesized speech, their high…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi , Tamás Gábor Csapó , Géza Németh

In this paper, we propose MDCTCodec, an efficient lightweight end-to-end neural audio codec based on the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT). The encoder takes the MDCT spectrum of audio as input, encoding it into a continuous latent…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Xiao-Hang Jiang , Yang Ai , Rui-Chen Zheng , Hui-Peng Du , Ye-Xin Lu , Zhen-Hua Ling

Audio watermarking has been widely applied in copyright protection and source tracing. However, due to the inherent characteristics of audio signals, watermark localization and resistance to desynchronization attacks remain significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhenliang Gan , Xiaoxiao Hu , Sheng Li , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

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

Despite the advancements in cutting-edge technologies, audio signal processing continues to pose challenges and lacks the precision of a human speech processing system. To address these challenges, we propose a novel approach to simplify…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Rinku Sebastian , Simon O'Keefe , Martin Trefzer

Developing new machine learning applications often requires the collection of new datasets. However, existing datasets may already contain relevant information to train models for new purposes. We propose SoundCollage: a framework to…

Bitrate scalability is a desirable feature for audio coding in real-time communications. Existing neural audio codecs usually enforce a specific bitrate during training, so different models need to be trained for each target bitrate, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Xue Jiang , Xiulian Peng , Huaying Xue , Yuan Zhang , Yan Lu

Deploying high-quality automatic speech recognition (ASR) on edge devices requires models that jointly optimize accuracy, latency, and memory footprint while operating entirely on CPU without GPU acceleration. We conduct a systematic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nenad Banfic , David Fan , Kunal Vaishnavi , Sam Kemp , Sunghoon Choi , Rui Ren , Sayan Shaw , Meng Tang

Any-to-any singing voice conversion (SVC) is confronted with the challenge of ``timbre leakage'' issue caused by inadequate disentanglement between the content and the speaker timbre. To address this issue, this study introduces NeuCoSVC, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Binzhu Sha , Xu Li , Zhiyong Wu , Ying Shan , Helen Meng

Protecting speaker identity is crucial for online voice applications, yet streaming speaker anonymization (SA) remains underexplored. Recent research has demonstrated that neural audio codec (NAC) provides superior speaker feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Nikita Kuzmin , Songting Liu , Kong Aik Lee , Eng Siong Chng

Prevailing Video-to-Audio (V2A) generation models operate offline, assuming an entire video sequence or chunks of frames are available beforehand. This critically limits their use in interactive applications such as live content creation…

An increasing share of captured images and videos are transmitted for storage and remote analysis by computer vision algorithms, rather than to be viewed by humans. Contrary to traditional standard codecs with engineered tools, neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Lahiru D. Chamain , Fabien Racapé , Jean Bégaint , Akshay Pushparaja , Simon Feltman

Speech Enhancement techniques have become core technologies in mobile devices and voice software. Still, modern deep learning solutions often require high amount of computational resources what makes their usage on low-resource devices…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ekaterina Dmitrieva , Maksim Kaledin

Speech compression is commonly used to send voice over radio channels in applications such as mobile telephony and two-way push-to-talk (PTT) radio. In classical systems, the speech codec is combined with forward error correction,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 David Rowe , Jean-Marc Valin

Recent advancements in audio language models have underscored the pivotal role of audio tokenization, which converts audio signals into discrete tokens, thereby facilitating the application of language model architectures to the audio…

This paper proposes a novel neural audio codec, named APCodec+, which is an improved version of APCodec. The APCodec+ takes the audio amplitude and phase spectra as the coding object, and employs an adversarial training strategy.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Hui-Peng Du , Yang Ai , Rui-Chen Zheng , Zhen-Hua Ling