Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same lineage. Flash targets real-time interaction.

Abstract: Generative Adversarial Network (GAN-based) vocoders have gained significant attention for generate high-quality audio with fast inference speed. A typical issue with GAN-based models is ...

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. Check out last week’s roundup here. Song of the ...

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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 ...

Almost five years ago to the day, underscores’ April Harper Grey told us exactly who she wanted to be: “I’m a pop star, baby,” she bragged on “spoiled little brat,” the tinny, pop-punk banger from her ...

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

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.

BBC Radiophonic Workshop Archive to be made available for the first time, passing on the legacy of the Pioneers of Electric Music to a new generation The archive of the groundbreaking BBC Radiophonic ...

The commercial success of Latin music has become a double-edged sword. On one side are industry boosters chattering about constant growth and revenue exceeding $1 billion; on the other, critics ...

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 ...