2016 WaveNetAGenerativeModelforRawAu

• (Oord et al., 2016) ⇒ Aäron van den Oord, Sander Dieleman, Heiga Zen, Karen Simonyan, Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Graves, Nal Kalchbrenner, Andrew Senior, and Koray Kavukcuoglu. (2016). “WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio.” Arxiv:1609.03499 [cs.SD]

Subject Headings: WaveNet.

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Abstract

This paper introduces WaveNet, a deep neural network for generating raw audio waveforms. The model is fully probabilistic and autoregressive, with the predictive distribution for each audio sample conditioned on all previous ones; nonetheless we show that it can be efficiently trained on data with tens of thousands of samples per second of audio. When applied to text-to-speech, it yields state-of-the-art performance, with human listeners rating it as significantly more natural sounding than the best parametric and concatenative systems for both English and Mandarin. A single WaveNet can capture the characteristics of many different speakers with equal fidelity, and can switch between them by conditioning on the speaker identity. When trained to model music, we find that it generates novel and often highly realistic musical fragments. We also show that it can be employed as a discriminative model, returning promising results for phoneme recognition.

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Figure 3: Visualization of a stack of dilated causal convolutional layers.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2016 WaveNetAGenerativeModelforRawAu	Aäron van den Oord Sander Dieleman Heiga Zen Karen Simonyan Oriol Vinyals Alexander Graves Nal Kalchbrenner Andrew Senior Koray Kavukcuoglu			WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio						2016