Improves text-to-speech speed by interleaving character reading and audio synthesis.
problem Latency in text-to-speech models limits their use in time-sensitive tasks.
method Reinforcement learning to train an agent to choose the order of character reading and audio synthesis.
result The proposed method successfully balances latency and audio quality.
Solution for voice conversion with limited data using hierarchical seq2seq and attention models.
problem Voice conversion between speakers with limited parallel audio pairs.
method Hierarchical sequence to sequence model with attention-based decoder, trained on single speaker dataset.
result Improved voice conversion quality using mel spectrograms and wavenet vocoder.
Improved speech recognition with audio-visual fusion.
problem Enhance speech recognition accuracy in noisy conditions.
method Proposes an attention-based audio-visual fusion strategy to align and learn from acoustic and lip motion data.
result Significant improvements in recognition accuracy (7-30%) on TCD-TIMIT dataset.
Paper proposes a method to locate power grid recordings using ENF sequences.
problem Locating power grid recordings without concurrent power signals.
method Extract ENF sequences from power and audio recordings, develop multi-class SVM model.
result Validation of location authenticity of recordings using ENF sequences.
Proposes a Complex Transformer for complex-valued sequence modeling.
problem Lack of deep learning models for complex-valued data.
method Develops a Complex Transformer using transformer backbone with specialized attention and encoder-decoder networks.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on complex-valued datasets.
Optimizes audio codec selection with statistical guarantees.
problem Selecting the best audio encoding scheme for various data types.
method Supervised learning with uniform convergence theory.
result Rigorous statistical guarantees for codec selection.
A new VAD method uses respiration patterns from video to detect speech.
problem Improving VAD performance in noisy audio recordings.
method Extract respiration patterns from video, use neural models to detect speech.
result Efficacy demonstrated through experiments on real acoustic environments.
Paper presents a provably correct algorithm for CNMF under separable conditions.
problem Convolutive nonnegative matrix factorization (CNMF) under separable assumptions.
method Algorithm exploiting NMF model and existing separable NMF algorithms.
result Guaranteed solution in low noise settings, runs in polynomial time.
Unified detection of isolated and overlapping audio events using CNN-RNN.
problem Detecting both isolated and overlapping audio events simultaneously.
method Multi-label multi-task framework based on CNN-RNN, with sequential losses.
result Good generalization on isolated and overlapping audio event detection datasets.
Novel fusion of autoencoders predicts sleepiness from speech.
problem Predicting sleepiness from speech recordings.
method Attention-based and recurrent sequence to sequence autoencoders for unsupervised representation learning.
result Fusion of autoencoders' representations achieves higher correlation with sleepiness scales.
New method separates multiple voices in mixed audio.
problem Separating multiple simultaneous speakers in audio.
method Gated neural networks trained at multiple steps, selecting actual number of speakers.
result Outperforms current state of the art for more than two speakers.
TFiLM expands convolutional models' receptive field with minimal overhead.
problem Capturing long-range dependencies in sequential data.
method A novel architectural component using a recurrent neural network to modulate convolutional model activations.
result TFiLM significantly improves learning speed and accuracy on various tasks.
Seq-U-Net improves sequence modeling efficiency with dilated U-Net.
problem Efficiently modeling long-term dependencies in sequences.
method Causal U-Net architecture with dilated filters and slow feature hypothesis.
result Seq-U-Net achieves comparable performance with speed-ups of over 4x in audio generation.
Alternative sampling method for autoregressive models using Langevin dynamics.
problem Efficiently sampling from autoregressive models.
method Initialize sequences with white noise and follow Langevin dynamics on global log-likelihood.
result Parallelizes and generalizes sampling process for autoregressive models.
Review of acoustic scene classification methods in a competition.
problem Categorizing audio sequences into classes based on spectral content.
method Competition involving students and external participants, ablation study, neural network baseline comparison.
result Improved classification over neural network baseline.
A system is presented that segments, clusters and predicts musical audio in an unsupervised manner, adjusting the number of (timbre) clusters instantaneously to the audio input. A sequence learning algorithm adapts its structure to a dynamically changing clustering tree. The flow of the system is as follows: 1) segment…
Deep neural networks generate dance steps from music with minimal labeled data.
problem Generating dance steps from music with little labeled data and maintaining timing accuracy.
method Weakly supervised deep recurrent neural network with convolutional and LSTM layers.
result Model generates dance steps with low cross entropy and maintains timing accuracy.
Future predictions on sequence data (e.g., videos or audios) require the algorithms to capture non-Markovian and compositional properties of high-level semantics. Context-free grammars are natural choices to capture such properties, but traditional grammar parsers (e.g., Earley parser) only take symbolic sentences as i…
Improves audio source separation using dilated convolutions and dense connections.
problem Optimizing feature extraction in audio source separation models.
method Adaptive dilated convolutions and dense connections in U-Net architecture.
result Improved performance on MUSDB test dataset.
Proposes a self-supervised method for generating spatial audio from monaural audio and video.
problem Generating spatial audio from monaural audio and video recordings is challenging and expensive.
method Uses a self-supervised network with an auxiliary classifier to classify video channels and generate spatial audio.
result The proposed method effectively generates spatial audio from monaural audio and video.
Deep audio prior uses neural networks to solve audio problems without data.
problem Challenging audio problems like source separation, editing, and synthesis.
method Randomly-initialized neural network with carefully designed audio prior.
result Superior audio results on Universal-150 benchmark dataset.
Zero-shot audio classification using class label embeddings.
problem Classifying audio without labeled data.
method Bilinear model with audio feature embeddings and class label embeddings.
result Achieved accuracy up to 39.7% for natural audio categories.
A new autoencoder speeds up audio style transfer.
problem Efficiently generating stylized audio from content audio.
method Autoencoder architecture for real-time audio style transfer.
result Single forward pass for stylized audio generation.
Sparse Transformers reduce memory and time requirements for long sequence modeling.
problem Quadratic growth in memory and time with transformer sequence length.
method Sparse factorizations of attention matrix, deeper network training, attention matrix recomputation, fast attention kernels.
result Sparse Transformers can model sequences up to tens of thousands of timesteps with hundreds of layers.
Method learns audio embeddings with contextualized tags.
problem Align audio and tags for cross-modal tasks.
method Audio autoencoder, word embeddings, multi-head self-attention, contrastive loss.
result Multi-head self-attention improves audio representations.
Study improves radio show segmentation using audio embeddings.
problem Automated segmentation of radio shows.
method Created audio embeddings from multi-class classification tasks on different datasets, evaluated performance against text-only baseline.
result Audio embeddings from non-speech sound event classification significantly outperformed text-only baseline by 32.3% in F1-measure.
Online audio advertising is a particular form of advertising used abundantly in online music streaming services. In these platforms, which tend to host tens of thousands of unique audio advertisements (ads), providing high quality ads ensures a better user experience and results in longer user engagement. Therefore, th…
Generative model improves audio synthesis from TF features.
problem Challenges in generating high-quality audio from TF features.
method Used a GAN to generate invertible TF features from short-time Fourier transforms.
result Generated TF features from GAN outperformed direct waveform generation.
Task describes tagging audio clips from 41 categories.
problem Tagging audio clips from diverse categories.
method Baseline system using AudioSet labels.
result Demonstrates feasibility of general-purpose audio tagging.
Adversarial attacks on spectrograms can fool audio classifiers trained on waveforms.
problem Susceptibility of audio classifiers to adversarial attacks on spectrograms.
method Applying adversarial attacks to spectrograms and reconstructing audio waveforms.
result Perturbed spectrograms can fool 2D CNNs and 1D CNNs trained on audio waveforms.
Study improves animal audio classification using data augmentation.
problem Improving automated animal audio classification accuracy.
method Exploits different data augmentation techniques for training CNNs.
result Best recognition rates on animal audio classification datasets.
MicAugment transfers audio style from few seconds of input to match target conditions.
problem Audio model robustness to diverse acquisition conditions.
method Identifies and applies transformations learned from target audio to input audio.
result MicAugment significantly improves model robustness in downstream tasks.
Detects audio adversarial examples using anomalous pattern detection.
problem Identifies adversarial audio attacks in deep neural networks.
method Applies anomalous pattern detection in activation space of audio models.
result Can detect adversarial examples with up to 0.98 AUC, no degradation on benign samples.
Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in SE, we propose an audio-visual de…
Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in SE, we propose an audio-visual de…
Unified model for audio control and style transfer.
problem Explicit control and style transfer in music generation.
method Diffusion autoencoders for semantic feature extraction, disentanglement using adversarial criterion.
result Model generates audio matching timbre targets with specified structure.
Audio fingerprinting, also named as audio hashing, has been well-known as a powerful technique to perform audio identification and synchronization. It basically involves two major steps: fingerprint (voice pattern) design and matching search. While the first step concerns the derivation of a robust and compact audio si…
Transformer model estimates keywords for better audio captioning.
problem Indeterminacy in word selection for audio events/scenes.
method Transformer-based model with keyword estimation.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance in AAC.
GANSynth uses GANs to efficiently synthesize high-fidelity audio.
problem Efficient and high-fidelity audio synthesis is challenging.
method Model log magnitudes and instantaneous frequencies with GANs.
result GANSynth outperforms WaveNet on automated and human evaluation metrics.
LumièreNet creates lecture videos from audio narration.
problem Creating high-quality lecture videos from audio narration.
method Modular deep-learning architecture that learns from audio to video.
result Synthesizes high-quality lecture videos from any length of audio.
Review of deep learning techniques for audio signal processing.
problem Improving audio signal processing using deep learning.
method Analysis of various deep learning models and techniques.
result Advancements in speech, music, and environmental sound processing.
AV-CPL uses continuous pseudo-labels for AVSR combining labeled and unlabeled data.
problem Improving AVSR performance with labeled and unlabeled data.
method Semi-supervised method using continuous pseudo-labels generated by the same AVSR model.
result Significant improvements in VSR performance on LRS3 dataset.
MelNet generates high-fidelity audio with long-range structure.
problem Capturing long-range dependencies in audio waveforms.
method Generative model in frequency domain, leveraging spectrograms.
result Improves audio generation in various tasks.
End-to-end transformer model improves lexical stress detection accuracy.
problem Inaccurate phoneme boundaries and limited features for stress classification.
method End-to-end sequence to sequence model using transformer trained on feature sequences and phoneme sequences with stress marks.
result End-to-end model achieves better performance and lower phoneme error rate (6.36%) compared to syllable segmentation methods.
HEAR benchmark evaluates audio representations for diverse tasks.
problem Developing a general-purpose audio representation for various tasks.
method Evaluated 29 models across 19 tasks using 16 datasets.
result No single audio representation performs holistically.
Proposes COALA method for learning audio representations aligned with tags.
problem Lack of annotated data for high-performance audio representation learning.
method Aligns latent representations of audio and tags using a contrastive loss.
result Audio embedding model captures both acoustic and semantic characteristics.
Combines symbolic and raw audio models for structured, realistic-sound music generation.
problem Lack of long-range dependencies in raw audio models and unstructured music.
method Uses a Long Short Term Memory network for melodic structure and WaveNet for raw audio generation with symbolic conditioning.
result Creates structured, realistic-sounding compositions using both symbolic and raw audio models.
Paper introduces a noisy-labeled audio tagging challenge.
problem Acoustic mismatch and noisy labels in audio tagging.
method Large dataset with minimal supervision, convolutional neural network baseline.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of minimal supervision in noisy conditions.