Abstract: Vocoder-based speech synthesis has become a promising technique to accommodate the demands of high-quality speech analysis, manipulation, and synthesis. However, most existing works focus on ...

Abstract: Neural Vocoders convert time-frequency representations, such as mel-spectrograms, into corresponding time representations. Vocoders are essential for generative applications in audio (e.g.

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At Paste Music, we’re listening to so many new tunes on any given day, we barely have any time to listen to each other. Nevertheless, every week we can swing it, we take stock of the previous seven ...

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Recent advances in speech enhancement (SE) have moved beyond traditional mask or signal prediction methods, turning instead to pre-trained audio models for richer, more transferable features. These ...

Dan Deacon, experimental musician and Baltimore resident for over 20 years, performed a strange, mesmerizing rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” at the Baltimore Orioles’ home game against the New ...

Daft Punk are famously secret about, well, most everything they do. Marc Edwards recently took a detailed look at some of the devices that the duo probably used for the vocal effects on their albums.

New more versatile sound engine. Vocoder, hardtune and harmonizer vocal effects. Solid build. Excellent color screen. The MicroKorg 2 is an improvement on the original in almost every way, that much ...

The MicroFreak gets perhaps its biggest update yet with three new oscillators from Eurorack experimentalists Noise Engineering. It's no secret that there's a growing interest in synths, drum machines ...