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“I know it’s just dopamine/ But it feels so real to me,” Robyn sings on “Dopamine,” the lead single off her new album Sexistential. Backed by a vocoder, a throbbing vocal sample, and a ...

Despite significant advances in neural vocoders using diffusion models and their variants, these methods, unfortunately, inherently suffer from a performance-inference dilemma, which stems from the ...

Although deep neural networks have facilitated significant progress of neural vocoders in recent years, they usually suffer from intrinsic challenges like opaque modeling, inflexible retraining under ...

Abstract: This paper introduces V2Coder, a non-autoregressive vocoder based on hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs). The hierarchical VAE with hierarchically extended prior and approximate ...

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Musicians are always looking for innovative ways to explore musical possibilities. These include new techniques to improve the flexibility and fidelity of the music and add new effects. Among these ...

Abstract: Automatic speaker verification (ASV), one of the most important technology for biometric identification, has been widely adopted in security-critical applications. However, ASV is seriously ...

“I’d rather keep changing and lose a lot of people along the way,” Neil Young told Rolling Stone in 1975. “If that’s the price, I’ll pay it. I don’t give a shit if my audience is a hundred or a ...

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