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 National Park Service has revised its list of free entrance days, dropping Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth — two federal holidays that were added under President Joe Biden’s ...

Minimal Audio is the Minnesota-based software developer behind popular plugins like Current and Rift, tools that balance user-friendly playability with creative firepower and sonic experimentation.

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 ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (MSFS 2024) is one of the most fascinating air simulators, and the good news is? It’s not something you have to pay extra for in terms of premium add-ons. A ...

LPC: vocoder on/off Order: vocoder order Mono / stereo: choose stereo, mono, or anything in-between Dry / wet: ratio of effect signal to input signal Voice 1, 2, 3: advanced pitch shifting - first ...

The archive of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop will be made available for the first time for use by musical artists and producers, passing on a legacy that helped invent electronic music and sampling.

AT the World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco great interest was shown in the speech synthesizer shown in the Bell System exhibits. In the December number of the Bell Laboratories Record, H.

In the rapidly developing field of audio synthesis, Nvidia has recently introduced BigVGAN v2. This neural vocoder breaks previous records for audio creation speed, quality, and adaptability by ...

Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman believes most web content is “freeware’ that can be used for training AI models. The only exception: websites that explicitly opt out. Freeware is any form of ...