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Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have recently achieved leading performances in many generative tasks. However, the inherited iterative sampling process costs hindered their applications to speech synthesis. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-22 Rongjie Huang , Max W. Y. Lam , Jun Wang , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Yi Ren , Zhou Zhao

Diffusion-based models have gained wide adoption in the virtual human generation due to their outstanding expressiveness. However, their substantial computational requirements have constrained their deployment in real-time interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Haojie Yu , Zhaonian Wang , Yihan Pan , Meng Cheng , Hao Yang , Chao Wang , Tao Xie , Xiaoming Xu , Xiaoming Wei , Xunliang Cai

Text-to-audio (TTA) system has recently gained attention for its ability to synthesize general audio based on text descriptions. However, previous studies in TTA have limited generation quality with high computational costs. In this study,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Haohe Liu , Zehua Chen , Yi Yuan , Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Danilo Mandic , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Generating high-quality and temporally synchronized audio from video content is essential for video editing and post-production tasks, enabling the creation of semantically aligned audio for silent videos. However, most existing approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Haomin Zhang , Kristin Qi , Shuxin Yang , Zihao Chen , Chaofan Ding , Xinhan Di

Free-form, text-based audio editing remains a persistent challenge, despite progress in inversion-based neural methods. Current approaches rely on slow inversion procedures, limiting their practicality. We present a virtual-consistency…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Matthieu Cervera , Francesco Paissan , Mirco Ravanelli , Cem Subakan

In this paper, we propose and investigate the use of neural audio codec language models for the automatic generation of sample-based musical instruments based on text or reference audio prompts. Our approach extends a generative audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Shahan Nercessian , Johannes Imort , Ninon Devis , Frederik Blang

Diffusion-based methods can generate realistic images and videos, but they struggle to edit existing objects in a video while preserving their appearance over time. This prevents diffusion models from being applied to natural video editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Wenhao Chai , Xun Guo , Gaoang Wang , Yan Lu

With the growing requirement for natural human-computer interaction, speech-based systems receive increasing attention as speech is one of the most common forms of daily communication. However, the existing speech models still experience…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zuwei Long , Yunhang Shen , Chaoyou Fu , Heting Gao , Lijiang Li , Peixian Chen , Mengdan Zhang , Hang Shao , Jian Li , Jinlong Peng , Haoyu Cao , Ke Li , Rongrong Ji , Xing Sun

We present SoundLoCD, a novel text-to-sound generation framework, which incorporates a LoRA-based conditional discrete contrastive latent diffusion model. Unlike recent large-scale sound generation models, our model can be efficiently…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xinlei Niu , Jing Zhang , Christian Walder , Charles Patrick Martin

Diffusion models have significantly improved the quality and diversity of audio generation but are hindered by slow inference speed. Rectified flow enhances inference speed by learning straight-line ordinary differential equation (ODE)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Junqi Zhao , Jinzheng Zhao , Haohe Liu , Yun Chen , Lu Han , Xubo Liu , Mark Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

With the exponential growth of video traffic, traditional video streaming systems are approaching their limits in compression efficiency and communication capacity. To further reduce bitrate while maintaining quality, we propose Promptus, a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jiangkai Wu , Liming Liu , Yunpeng Tan , Junlin Hao , Xinggong Zhang

The field of text-to-audio generation has seen significant advancements, and yet the ability to finely control the acoustic characteristics of generated audio remains under-explored. In this paper, we introduce a novel yet simple approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Sonal Kumar , Prem Seetharaman , Justin Salamon , Dinesh Manocha , Oriol Nieto

The introduction of diffusion models has brought significant advances to the field of audio-driven talking head generation. However, the extremely slow inference speed severely limits the practical implementation of diffusion-based talking…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Jun Du , Haoran Xu , Xiaoyan Wu , Shan He , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Jianqing Gao , Qingfeng Liu

We introduce MelodyFlow, an efficient text-controllable high-fidelity music generation and editing model. It operates on continuous latent representations from a low frame rate 48 kHz stereo variational auto encoder codec. Based on a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Gael Le Lan , Bowen Shi , Zhaoheng Ni , Sidd Srinivasan , Anurag Kumar , Brian Ellis , David Kant , Varun Nagaraja , Ernie Chang , Wei-Ning Hsu , Yangyang Shi , Vikas Chandra

Recent advances in text-to-audio generation enable models to translate natural-language descriptions into diverse musical output. However, the robustness of these systems under semantically equivalent prompt variations remains largely…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Jiahui Wu

While most music generation models use textual or parametric conditioning (e.g. tempo, harmony, musical genre), we propose to condition a language model based music generation system with audio input. Our exploration involves two distinct…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Simon Rouard , Yossi Adi , Jade Copet , Axel Roebel , Alexandre Défossez

Speaker-adaptive Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis has attracted considerable attention due to its broad range of applications, such as personalized voice assistant services. While several approaches have been proposed, they often exhibit high…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wooseok Han , Minki Kang , Changhun Kim , Eunho Yang

Recently, there has been great interest in the field of audio style transfer, where a stylized audio is generated by imposing the style of a reference audio on the content of a target audio. We improve on the current approaches which use…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Dhruv Ramani , Samarjit Karmakar , Anirban Panda , Asad Ahmed , Pratham Tangri

Music generation models can produce high-fidelity coherent accompaniment given complete audio input, but are limited to editing and loop-based workflows. We study real-time audio-to-audio accompaniment: as a model hears an input audio…

Latent representations are at the heart of the majority of modern generative models. In the audio domain they are typically produced by a neural-audio-codec autoencoder. In this work we introduce SAME (Semantically-Aligned Music…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Julian D. Parker , Zach Evans , CJ Carr , Zachary Zukowski , Josiah Taylor , Matthew Rice , Jordi Pons