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25 results for Mel-Spectrogram

iSTFTNet speeds up mel-spectrogram vocoders without sacrificing quality.

problem Efficiently converting mel-spectrograms to speech with minimal computation.
method Replaces convolutional layers with iSTFT after frequency dimension reduction.
result Significant reduction in computational cost with comparable quality.

CycleGAN-VC3 improves CycleGAN-VCs for mel-spectrogram conversion.

problem Ambiguity in CycleGAN-VC/VC2 effectiveness for mel-spectrogram conversion.
method Proposes CycleGAN-VC3 with time-frequency adaptive normalization (TFAN).
result CycleGAN-VC3 outperforms or matches CycleGAN-VC2 for mel-spectrogram conversion.

For training the sequence-to-sequence voice conversion model, we need to handle an issue of insufficient data about the number of speech pairs which consist of the same utterance. This study experimentally investigated the effects of Mel-spectrogram augmentation on training the sequence-to-sequence voice conversion (VC…

2020-01-06abs ↗pdf ↗

SpecGrad improves neural vocoder sound quality by adapting diffusion noise to log-mel spectrogram.

problem Improving neural vocoder sound quality, especially in high-frequency bands.
method Adapting the diffusion noise distribution to the conditioning log-mel spectrogram through time-varying filtering.
result SpecGrad generates higher-fidelity speech waveform than conventional DDPM-based neural vocoders.

MaskCycleGAN-VC improves voice conversion without parallel data.

problem Limited ability to convert mel-spectrogram data without parallel data.
method Integrates a novel auxiliary task called filling in frames (FIF) to learn time-frequency structures.
result MaskCycleGAN-VC outperforms existing methods with similar model size.

End-to-end neural network based approaches to audio modelling are generally outperformed by models trained on high-level data representations. In this paper we present preliminary work that shows the feasibility of training the first layers of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model to learn the commonly-used l…

2017-12-01abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we propose WaveGlow: a flow-based network capable of generating high quality speech from mel-spectrograms. WaveGlow combines insights from Glow and WaveNet in order to provide fast, efficient and high-quality audio synthesis, without the need for auto-regression. WaveGlow is implemented using only a singl…

2018-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper aims to find joint representation between vocal tract geometry and speech sound acoustics.

problem Finding a joint latent representation between articulatory and acoustic domains for vowel sounds.
method Invertible neural network models, convolutional autoencoder, normalizing flows, semi-supervised learning.
result Satisfactory performance in articulatory-to-acoustic and acoustic-to-articulatory mapping.

Neural network-based vocoders have recently demonstrated the powerful ability to synthesize high-quality speech. These models usually generate samples by conditioning on spectral features, such as Mel-spectrogram and fundamental frequency, which is crucial to speech synthesis. However, the feature extraction procession…

2019-04-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a voice conversion solution using recurrent sequence to sequence modeling for DNNs. Our solution takes advantage of recent advances in attention based modeling in the fields of Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The problem consists of converting be…

2019-07-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures have originated and revolutionized machine learning for images. In order to take advantage of CNNs in predictive modeling with audio data, standard FFT-based signal processing methods are often applied to convert the raw audio waveforms into an image-like representations…

2019-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

This research investigates reliable local explanations for machine listening models.

problem Generating reliable local explanations for machine listening models.
method Investigates the sensitivity of SoundLIME explanations to input perturbations and proposes a novel method for identifying suitable content types.
result SoundLIME explanations are sensitive to the content in occluded input regions, and the average magnitude of input mel-spectrogram bins is the most suitable content type for temporal explanations.

Paper extends ICA to ISA with auxiliary variables for better speech representation learning.

problem Learning unsupervised speech representations with independent subspaces.
method Theoretical framework of nonlinear ISA with auxiliary variables.
result Proposes an algorithm to learn speech representations with independent subspaces.

PriorGrad improves speech synthesis models by using data-dependent adaptive priors.

problem Inefficiency in denoising diffusion models due to mismatch between prior and data distributions.
method Proposes PriorGrad, an adaptive prior derived from data statistics based on conditional information.
result PriorGrad achieves faster convergence and superior performance in speech synthesis models.

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.

Deep CNN-RNN model classifies breathing sounds for respiratory disease diagnosis.

problem Automated diagnosis of respiratory diseases using wearable devices.
method Patient-specific model tuning and local log quantization of weights.
result 71.81% accuracy on leave-one-out validation with patient-specific data.