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

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 ...

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Abstract: Inspired by the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in speech processing, this paper presents Deep Vocoder, a direct end-to-end low bit rate speech compression method with deep ...

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RepCodec is a speech tokenization method for converting a speech waveform into a sequence of discrete semantic tokens. The main idea is to train a representation codec which learns a vector ...

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