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 ...

A large-scale paint shop could be built by a Norfolk industrial estate as part of a company's plans to expand. It follows an application that was put forward for the development at Shipdham, near ...

When it comes to the machines used to make their music, there are few who compare to Kraftwerk in the secrecy stakes. The iconic German synth masters' almost complete lack of studio interviews on the ...

Boldly going where no Predator film has gone before, Predator: Badlands flips the franchise script, putting the Predator (aka Yautja) front and center. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, the same visionary ...

Benjamin Wallfisch is living the sci-fi dream. Over the last two years, the prolific composer has found himself crafting music for two of the most iconic genre franchises on the planet: Alien and ...

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 ...

The Dominican-born, Berlin-based artist embraces his status as the voice of dub techno, folding a stacked roster of producers from across the dance music spectrum into his subterranean vision. No ...

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 ...

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

Imagine receiving a call from a high-ranking official, urgently requesting a wire transfer to resolve a national crisis. This was the case for several wealthy entrepreneurs in Italy recently, leaving ...