Practical Solutions for High-Fidelity Waveform Generation
Challenges in Waveform Generation
Generating natural-sounding audio for real-world applications is a critical challenge in text-to-speech and audio generation. It involves capturing high-resolution waveforms, avoiding artifacts, and improving inference speed.
Current Approaches and Limitations
Existing models like MelGAN, HiFi-GAN, and BigVGAN face limitations such as complex tuning, slow generation speeds, and susceptibility to artifacts. Diffusion models like Multi-Band Diffusion (MBD) suffer from slow speeds and difficulty in capturing high-frequency information.
Introducing PeriodWave
PeriodWave is a novel waveform generation method that incorporates period-aware flow matching to capture natural periodic features of waveforms. It employs flow matching for fast and accurate waveform generation and introduces a period-conditional universal estimator for improved computational efficiency. Additionally, it uses discrete wavelet transform (DWT) for frequency disentanglement, enhancing high-frequency component generation.
Technical Components and Performance
PeriodWave utilizes a time-conditional UNet-based structure for vector field estimation, reshapes input signals for period-aware feature extraction, and employs prime numbers to handle multiple periods. It also incorporates FreeU for noise reduction and is trained on datasets like LJSpeech and LibriTTS. It outperforms existing models in objective and subjective metrics and demonstrates robustness in real-world scenarios.
Advancements and Value
PeriodWave represents a significant advancement in waveform generation, offering improved quality, reduced training time, and robustness in real-world applications. It provides a practical and efficient solution for text-to-speech, audio generation, and beyond, potentially replacing conventional neural vocoders in various applications.
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