Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk in Columbus, Ohio, but felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make Roland. In 1970, Kirk added "Rahsaan" to his name. Preferring to ...

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

The current price of Fantom (FTM) is $0.101519, as of Jan 5, 2026. Over the last 24 hours, the price has moved by 16%, with a change of 0.15% in the past hour. For longer-term performance, the price ...

Fantom fully rebranded as Sonic on January 16, 2025, to reposition itself within the market. As part of this transition, Sonic plans to introduce new features to increase community engagement and ...

This project develops tools for interfacing with Advanced Multiband Excitation (AMBE) hardware vocoder chips developed by Digital Voice Systems, Inc. (DVSI). The proprietary AMBE technology is used in ...