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The state-of-the-art in text-to-speech synthesis has recently improved considerably due to novel neural waveform generation methods, such as WaveNet. However, these methods suffer from their slow sequential inference process, while their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-31 Lauri Juvela , Bajibabu Bollepalli , Junichi Yamagishi , Paavo Alku

We describe a neural network-based system for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis that is able to generate speech audio in the voice of many different speakers, including those unseen during training. Our system consists of three independently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Ye Jia , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Quan Wang , Jonathan Shen , Fei Ren , Zhifeng Chen , Patrick Nguyen , Ruoming Pang , Ignacio Lopez Moreno , Yonghui Wu

This paper proposes a generative pretraining foundation model for high-quality speech restoration tasks. By directly operating on complex-valued short-time Fourier transform coefficients, our model does not rely on any vocoders for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Pin-Jui Ku , Alexander H. Liu , Roman Korostik , Sung-Feng Huang , Szu-Wei Fu , Ante Jukić

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

Most recent speech synthesis systems are composed of a synthesizer and a vocoder. However, the existing synthesizers and vocoders can only be matched to acoustic features extracted with a specific configuration. Hence, we can't combine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Fan-Lin Wang , Po-chun Hsu , Da-rong Liu , Hung-yi Lee

The goal of this paper is to generate realistic audio with a lightweight and fast diffusion-based vocoder, named FreGrad. Our framework consists of the following three key components: (1) We employ discrete wavelet transform that decomposes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Tan Dat Nguyen , Ji-Hoon Kim , Youngjoon Jang , Jaehun Kim , Joon Son Chung

Recent studies have shown that neural vocoders based on generative adversarial network (GAN) can generate audios with high quality. While GAN based neural vocoders have shown to be computationally much more efficient than those based on…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Zhengxi Liu , Yanmin Qian

Deep generative models applied to audio have improved by a large margin the state-of-the-art in many speech and music related tasks. However, as raw waveform modelling remains an inherently difficult task, audio generative models are either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Antoine Caillon , Philippe Esling

Neural vocoders have recently advanced waveform generation, yielding natural and expressive audio. Among these approaches, iSTFT-based vocoders have recently gained attention. They predict a complex-valued spectrogram and then synthesize…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hyung-Seok Oh , Deok-Hyeon Cho , Seung-Bin Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Human conversational styles are measured by the sense of humor, personality, and tone of voice. These characteristics have become essential for conversational intelligent virtual assistants. However, most of the state-of-the-art intelligent…

While neural vocoders have made significant progress in high-fidelity speech synthesis, their application on polyphonic music has remained underexplored. In this work, we propose DisCoder, a neural vocoder that leverages a generative…

A vocoder is a conditional audio generation model that converts acoustic features such as mel-spectrograms into waveforms. Taking inspiration from Differentiable Digital Signal Processing (DDSP), we propose a new vocoder named SawSing for…

The packet loss problem seriously affects the quality of service in Voice over IP (VoIP) sceneries. In this paper, we investigated online receiver-based packet loss concealment which is much more portable and applicable. For ensuring the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Yao Zhou , Changchun Bao

Deep learning has dramatically improved the performance of speech recognition systems through learning hierarchies of features optimized for the task at hand. However, true end-to-end learning, where features are learned directly from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Zhenyao Zhu , Jesse H. Engel , Awni Hannun

Precise control over speech characteristics, such as pitch, duration, and speech rate, remains a significant challenge in the field of voice conversion. The ability to manipulate parameters like pitch and syllable rate is an important…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mathilde Abrassart , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

There are many deterministic mathematical operations (e.g. compression, clipping, downsampling) that degrade speech quality considerably. In this paper we introduce a neural network architecture, based on a modification of the DiffWave…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jianwei Zhang , Suren Jayasuriya , Visar Berisha

We propose the multi-head convolutional neural network (MCNN) architecture for waveform synthesis from spectrograms. Nonlinear interpolation in MCNN is employed with transposed convolution layers in parallel heads. MCNN achieves more than…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Sercan O. Arik , Heewoo Jun , Gregory Diamos

Consumer-grade music recordings such as those captured by mobile devices typically contain distortions in the form of background noise, reverb, and microphone-induced EQ. This paper presents a deep learning approach to enhance low-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Nikhil Kandpal , Oriol Nieto , Zeyu Jin

We present a transformer-based architecture for voice separation of a target speaker from multiple other speakers and ambient noise. We achieve this by using two separate neural networks: (A) An enrolment network designed to craft…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Akam Rahimi , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

The advent of Transformer-based models has surpassed the barriers of text. When working with speech, we must face a problem: the sequence length of an audio input is not suitable for the Transformer. To bypass this problem, a usual approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Belen Alastruey , Gerard I. Gállego , Marta R. Costa-jussà