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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

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

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yicheng Gu , Xueyao Zhang , Liumeng Xue , Zhizheng Wu

This paper observes that there is an issue of high frequencies missing in the discriminator of standard GAN, and we reveal it stems from downsampling layers employed in the network architecture. This issue makes the generator lack the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yuanqi Chen , Ge Li , Cece Jin , Shan Liu , Thomas Li

The short-time Fourier transform (STFT) is widely used for analyzing non-stationary signals. However, its performance is highly sensitive to its parameters, and manual or heuristic tuning often yields suboptimal results. To overcome this…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Maxime Leiber , Yosra Marnissi , Axel Barrau , Sylvain Meignen , Laurent Massoulié

Generative adversarial network (GAN) models can synthesize highquality audio signals while ensuring fast sample generation. However, they are difficult to train and are prone to several issues including mode collapse and divergence. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Teysir Baoueb , Haocheng Liu , Mathieu Fontaine , Jonathan Le Roux , Gael Richard

In speech synthesis, a generative adversarial network (GAN), training a generator (speech synthesizer) and a discriminator in a min-max game, is widely used to improve speech quality. An ensemble of discriminators is commonly used in recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Shogo Seki

The generative adversarial network (GAN) has shown its outstanding capability in improving Non-Autoregressive TTS (NAR-TTS) by adversarially training it with an extra model that discriminates between the real and the generated speech. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Haohan Guo , Hui Lu , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

The short-time Fourier transform (STFT) provides the foundation of binary-mask based audio source separation approaches. In computing a spectrogram, the STFT window size parameterizes the trade-off between time and frequency resolution.…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Andrew J. R. Simpson

Although recent works on neural vocoder have improved the quality of synthesized audio, there still exists a gap between generated and ground-truth audio in frequency space. This difference leads to spectral artifacts such as hissing noise…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Ji-Hoon Kim , Sang-Hoon Lee , Ji-Hyun Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Our previous work, the unified source-filter GAN (uSFGAN) vocoder, introduced a novel architecture based on the source-filter theory into the parallel waveform generative adversarial network to achieve high voice quality and pitch…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Reo Yoneyama , Yi-Chiao Wu , Tomoki Toda

We present STFTCodec, a novel spectral-based neural audio codec that efficiently compresses audio using Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT). Unlike waveform-based approaches that require large model capacity and substantial memory…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Tao Feng , Zhiyuan Zhao , Yifan Xie , Yuqi Ye , Xiangyang Luo , Xun Guan , Yu Li

This paper presents FastFit, a novel neural vocoder architecture that replaces the U-Net encoder with multiple short-time Fourier transforms (STFTs) to achieve faster generation rates without sacrificing sample quality. We replaced each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Won Jang , Dan Lim , Heayoung Park

Neural vocoders are central to speech synthesis; despite their success, most still suffer from limited prosody modeling and inaccurate phase reconstruction. We propose a vocoder that introduces prosody-guided harmonic attention to enhance…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi , Riad Larbi , Mátyás Bartalis , Géza Németh

Recent development of neural vocoders based on the generative adversarial neural network (GAN) has shown obvious advantages of generating raw waveform conditioned on mel-spectrogram with fast inference speed and lightweight networks.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kun Song , Yongmao Zhang , Yi Lei , Jian Cong , Hanzhao Li , Lei Xie , Gang He , Jinfeng Bai

Most speech enhancement algorithms make use of the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), which is a simple and flexible time-frequency decomposition that estimates the short-time spectrum of a signal. However, the duration of short STFT…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Scott Wisdom , Thomas Powers , Les Atlas , James Pitton

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

The data analysis of space-based gravitational wave detectors like Taiji faces significant challenges from non-stationary noise, which compromises the efficacy of traditional frequency-domain analysis. This work proposes a unified framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Minghui Du , Ziren Luo , Peng Xu

We introduce the Latent Fourier Transform (LatentFT), a framework that provides novel frequency-domain controls for generative music models. LatentFT combines a diffusion autoencoder with a latent-space Fourier transform to separate musical…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mason Wang , Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang

Entertainment-oriented singing voice synthesis (SVS) requires a vocoder to generate high-fidelity (e.g. 48kHz) audio. However, most text-to-speech (TTS) vocoders cannot reconstruct the waveform well in this scenario. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Chunhui Wang , Chang Zeng , Jun Chen , Xing He

Recent advancements in speech synthesis have leveraged GAN-based networks like HiFi-GAN and BigVGAN to produce high-fidelity waveforms from mel-spectrograms. However, these networks are computationally expensive and parameter-heavy.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Yinghao Aaron Li , Cong Han , Xilin Jiang , Nima Mesgarani
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