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Recently, denoising diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance among generative models in various domains. However, in the speech domain, the application of diffusion models for synthesizing time-varying audio faces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Ji-Sang Hwang , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Although diffusion models in text-to-speech have become a popular choice due to their strong generative ability, the intrinsic complexity of sampling from diffusion models harms their efficiency. Alternatively, we propose VoiceFlow, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Yiwei Guo , Chenpeng Du , Ziyang Ma , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion (VMAF) [1], [2], [3] is a popular tool in the industry for measuring coded video quality. In this study, we propose an auditory-inspired frontend in existing VMAF for creating videos of reference and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Arijit Biswas , Harald Mundt

Current generative models are able to generate high-quality artefacts but have been shown to struggle with compositional reasoning, which can be defined as the ability to generate complex structures from simpler elements. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Giovanni Bindi , Philippe Esling

Neural vocoders, used for converting the spectral representations of an audio signal to the waveforms, are a commonly used component in speech synthesis pipelines. It focuses on synthesizing waveforms from low-dimensional representation,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Ehab A. AlBadawy , Andrew Gibiansky , Qing He , Jilong Wu , Ming-Ching Chang , Siwei Lyu

We present HAFM, a system that generates instrumental music audio to accompany input vocals. Given isolated singing voice, HAFM produces a coherent instrumental accompaniment that can be directly mixed with the input to create complete…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jian Zhu , Jianwei Cui , Shihao Chen , Yubang Zhang , Cheng Luo

Lossy audio codecs compress (and decompress) digital audio streams by removing information that tends to be inaudible in human perception. Under high compression rates, such codecs may introduce a variety of impairments in the audio signal.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Stefan Lattner , Javier Nistal

Recent advancements in latent diffusion models (LDMs) have markedly enhanced text-to-audio generation, yet their iterative sampling processes impose substantial computational demands, limiting practical deployment. While recent methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Huadai Liu , Jialei Wang , Rongjie Huang , Yang Liu , Heng Lu , Zhou Zhao , Wei Xue

In this paper, we present Msanii, a novel diffusion-based model for synthesizing long-context, high-fidelity music efficiently. Our model combines the expressiveness of mel spectrograms, the generative capabilities of diffusion models, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kinyugo Maina

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…

Automatic Music Generation (AMG) has become an interesting research topic for many scientists in artificial intelligence, who are also interested in the music industry. One of the main challenges in AMG is that there is no clear objective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Maryam Majidi , Rahil Mahdian Toroghi

In multimedia applications such as films and video games, spatial audio techniques are widely employed to enhance user experiences by simulating 3D sound: transforming mono audio into binaural formats. However, this process is often complex…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xiaojing Liu , Ogulcan Gurelli , Yan Wang , Joshua Reiss

In audio-related creative tasks, sound designers often seek to extend and morph different sounds from their libraries. Generative audio models, capable of creating audio using examples as references, offer promising solutions. By masking…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Prem Seetharaman , Oriol Nieto , Justin Salamon

Neural audio autoencoders create compact latent representations that preserve perceptually important information, serving as the foundation for both modern audio compression systems and generation approaches like next-token prediction and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Dimitrios Bralios , Paris Smaragdis , Jonah Casebeer

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based system for the task of deepfake audio detection. In particular, the draw input audio is first transformed into various spectrograms using three transformation methods of Short-time Fourier…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Lam Pham , Phat Lam , Truong Nguyen , Huyen Nguyen , Alexander Schindler

Generative models have thrived in computer vision, enabling unprecedented image processes. Yet the results in audio remain less advanced. Our project targets real-time sound synthesis from a reduced set of high-level parameters, including…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Adrien Bitton , Philippe Esling , Antoine Caillon , Martin Fouilleul

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based vocoders are superior in both inference speed and synthesis quality when reconstructing an audible waveform from an acoustic representation. This study focuses on improving the discriminator for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Yicheng Gu , Xueyao Zhang , Liumeng Xue , Haizhou Li , Zhizheng Wu

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 present a deep neural network based singing voice synthesizer, inspired by the Deep Convolutions Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) architecture and optimized using the Wasserstein-GAN algorithm. We use vocoder parameters for…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Pritish Chandna , Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Emilia Gomez

Multimodal generative models have shown remarkable progress in single-modality video and audio synthesis, yet truly joint audio-video generation remains an open challenge. In this paper, I explore four key contributions to advance this…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Alejandro Paredes La Torre