Search Results for author: Yi-Chiao Wu

Found 28 papers, 15 papers with code

ScoreDec: A Phase-preserving High-Fidelity Audio Codec with A Generalized Score-based Diffusion Post-filter

no code implementations22 Jan 2024 Yi-Chiao Wu, Dejan Marković, Steven Krenn, Israel D. Gebru, Alexander Richard

Although recent mainstream waveform-domain end-to-end (E2E) neural audio codecs achieve impressive coded audio quality with a very low bitrate, the quality gap between the coded and natural audio is still significant.

Generative Adversarial Network

Audiobox: Unified Audio Generation with Natural Language Prompts

no code implementations25 Dec 2023 Apoorv Vyas, Bowen Shi, Matthew Le, Andros Tjandra, Yi-Chiao Wu, Baishan Guo, Jiemin Zhang, Xinyue Zhang, Robert Adkins, William Ngan, Jeff Wang, Ivan Cruz, Bapi Akula, Akinniyi Akinyemi, Brian Ellis, Rashel Moritz, Yael Yungster, Alice Rakotoarison, Liang Tan, Chris Summers, Carleigh Wood, Joshua Lane, Mary Williamson, Wei-Ning Hsu

Research communities have made great progress over the past year advancing the performance of large scale audio generative models for a single modality (speech, sound, or music) through adopting more powerful generative models and scaling data.

AudioCaps Audio Generation +1

AudioDec: An Open-source Streaming High-fidelity Neural Audio Codec

2 code implementations26 May 2023 Yi-Chiao Wu, Israel D. Gebru, Dejan Marković, Alexander Richard

A good audio codec for live applications such as telecommunication is characterized by three key properties: (1) compression, i. e.\ the bitrate that is required to transmit the signal should be as low as possible; (2) latency, i. e.\ encoding and decoding the signal needs to be fast enough to enable communication without or with only minimal noticeable delay; and (3) reconstruction quality of the signal.

Source-Filter HiFi-GAN: Fast and Pitch Controllable High-Fidelity Neural Vocoder

no code implementations27 Oct 2022 Reo Yoneyama, Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Toda

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 controllability.

Generative Adversarial Network

Unified Source-Filter GAN with Harmonic-plus-Noise Source Excitation Generation

no code implementations12 May 2022 Reo Yoneyama, Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Toda

To improve the source excitation modeling and generated sound quality, a new source excitation generation network separately generating periodic and aperiodic components is proposed.

HASA-net: A non-intrusive hearing-aid speech assessment network

no code implementations10 Nov 2021 Hsin-Tien Chiang, Yi-Chiao Wu, Cheng Yu, Tomoki Toda, Hsin-Min Wang, Yih-Chun Hu, Yu Tsao

Without the need of a clean reference, non-intrusive speech assessment methods have caught great attention for objective evaluations.

Unified Source-Filter GAN: Unified Source-filter Network Based On Factorization of Quasi-Periodic Parallel WaveGAN

1 code implementation10 Apr 2021 Reo Yoneyama, Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Toda

We propose a unified approach to data-driven source-filter modeling using a single neural network for developing a neural vocoder capable of generating high-quality synthetic speech waveforms while retaining flexibility of the source-filter model to control their voice characteristics.

The AS-NU System for the M2VoC Challenge

no code implementations7 Apr 2021 Cheng-Hung Hu, Yi-Chiao Wu, Wen-Chin Huang, Yu-Huai Peng, Yu-Wen Chen, Pin-Jui Ku, Tomoki Toda, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang

The first track focuses on using a small number of 100 target utterances for voice cloning, while the second track focuses on using only 5 target utterances for voice cloning.

Voice Cloning

Any-to-One Sequence-to-Sequence Voice Conversion using Self-Supervised Discrete Speech Representations

no code implementations23 Oct 2020 Wen-Chin Huang, Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Hayashi, Tomoki Toda

Given a training dataset of the target speaker, we extract VQW2V and acoustic features to estimate a seq2seq mapping function from the former to the latter.

Voice Conversion

Baseline System of Voice Conversion Challenge 2020 with Cyclic Variational Autoencoder and Parallel WaveGAN

1 code implementation9 Oct 2020 Patrick Lumban Tobing, Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Toda

In this paper, we present a description of the baseline system of Voice Conversion Challenge (VCC) 2020 with a cyclic variational autoencoder (CycleVAE) and Parallel WaveGAN (PWG), i. e., CycleVAEPWG.

Generative Adversarial Network Task 2 +1

Quasi-Periodic Parallel WaveGAN: A Non-autoregressive Raw Waveform Generative Model with Pitch-dependent Dilated Convolution Neural Network

1 code implementation25 Jul 2020 Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Hayashi, Takuma Okamoto, Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda

To improve the pitch controllability and speech modeling capability, we apply a QP structure with PDCNNs to PWG, which introduces pitch information to the network by dynamically changing the network architecture corresponding to the auxiliary $F_{0}$ feature.

Quasi-Periodic WaveNet: An Autoregressive Raw Waveform Generative Model with Pitch-dependent Dilated Convolution Neural Network

1 code implementation11 Jul 2020 Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Hayashi, Patrick Lumban Tobing, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda

In this paper, a pitch-adaptive waveform generative model named Quasi-Periodic WaveNet (QPNet) is proposed to improve the limited pitch controllability of vanilla WaveNet (WN) using pitch-dependent dilated convolution neural networks (PDCNNs).

Quasi-Periodic Parallel WaveGAN Vocoder: A Non-autoregressive Pitch-dependent Dilated Convolution Model for Parametric Speech Generation

1 code implementation18 May 2020 Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Hayashi, Takuma Okamoto, Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda

In this paper, we propose a parallel WaveGAN (PWG)-like neural vocoder with a quasi-periodic (QP) architecture to improve the pitch controllability of PWG.

Audio and Speech Processing Sound

Voice Transformer Network: Sequence-to-Sequence Voice Conversion Using Transformer with Text-to-Speech Pretraining

1 code implementation14 Dec 2019 Wen-Chin Huang, Tomoki Hayashi, Yi-Chiao Wu, Hirokazu Kameoka, Tomoki Toda

We introduce a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion (VC) model based on the Transformer architecture with text-to-speech (TTS) pretraining.

Voice Conversion

Non-Parallel Voice Conversion with Cyclic Variational Autoencoder

2 code implementations24 Jul 2019 Patrick Lumban Tobing, Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Hayashi, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda

In this work, to overcome this problem, we propose to use CycleVAE-based spectral model that indirectly optimizes the conversion flow by recycling the converted features back into the system to obtain corresponding cyclic reconstructed spectra that can be directly optimized.

Voice Conversion

Statistical Voice Conversion with Quasi-Periodic WaveNet Vocoder

1 code implementation21 Jul 2019 Yi-Chiao Wu, Patrick Lumban Tobing, Tomoki Hayashi, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda

However, because of the fixed dilated convolution and generic network architecture, the WN vocoder lacks robustness against unseen input features and often requires a huge network size to achieve acceptable speech quality.

Audio and Speech Processing Sound

Quasi-Periodic WaveNet Vocoder: A Pitch Dependent Dilated Convolution Model for Parametric Speech Generation

1 code implementation1 Jul 2019 Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Hayashi, Patrick Lumban Tobing, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda

In this paper, we propose a quasi-periodic neural network (QPNet) vocoder with a novel network architecture named pitch-dependent dilated convolution (PDCNN) to improve the pitch controllability of WaveNet (WN) vocoder.

Refined WaveNet Vocoder for Variational Autoencoder Based Voice Conversion

no code implementations27 Nov 2018 Wen-Chin Huang, Yi-Chiao Wu, Hsin-Te Hwang, Patrick Lumban Tobing, Tomoki Hayashi, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang

Conventional WaveNet vocoders are trained with natural acoustic features but conditioned on the converted features in the conversion stage for VC, and such a mismatch often causes significant quality and similarity degradation.

Voice Conversion

Voice Conversion from Non-parallel Corpora Using Variational Auto-encoder

4 code implementations13 Oct 2016 Chin-Cheng Hsu, Hsin-Te Hwang, Yi-Chiao Wu, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang

We propose a flexible framework for spectral conversion (SC) that facilitates training with unaligned corpora.

Voice Conversion

Dictionary Update for NMF-based Voice Conversion Using an Encoder-Decoder Network

no code implementations13 Oct 2016 Chin-Cheng Hsu, Hsin-Te Hwang, Yi-Chiao Wu, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang

In this paper, we propose a dictionary update method for Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) with high dimensional data in a spectral conversion (SC) task.

Speech Enhancement Speech Synthesis +1

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