High-Fidelity and Low-Latency Universal Neural Vocoder based on Multiband WaveRNN with Data-Driven Linear Prediction for Discrete Waveform Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09856v1
• Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 16:02:45 GMT
• Title: High-Fidelity and Low-Latency Universal Neural Vocoder based on Multiband WaveRNN with Data-Driven Linear Prediction for Discrete Waveform Modeling
• Authors: Patrick Lumban Tobing, Tomoki Toda
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a novel universal neural vocoder framework based on multiband WaveRNN with data-driven linear prediction for discrete waveform modeling (MWDLP) Experiments demonstrate that the proposed MWDLP framework generates high-fidelity synthetic speech for seen and unseen speakers and/or language on 300 speakers training data including clean and noisy/reverberant conditions.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents a novel high-fidelity and low-latency universal neural vocoder framework based on multiband WaveRNN with data-driven linear prediction for discrete waveform modeling (MWDLP). MWDLP employs a coarse-fine bit WaveRNN architecture for 10-bit mu-law waveform modeling. A sparse gated recurrent unit with a relatively large size of hidden units is utilized, while the multiband modeling is deployed to achieve real-time low-latency usage. A novel technique for data-driven linear prediction (LP) with discrete waveform modeling is proposed, where the LP coefficients are estimated in a data-driven manner. Moreover, a novel loss function using short-time Fourier transform (STFT) for discrete waveform modeling with Gumbel approximation is also proposed. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed MWDLP framework generates high-fidelity synthetic speech for seen and unseen speakers and/or language on 300 speakers training data including clean and noisy/reverberant conditions, where the number of training utterances is limited to 60 per speaker, while allowing for real-time low-latency processing using a single core of $\sim\!$ 2.1--2.7~GHz CPU with $\sim\!$ 0.57--0.64 real-time factor including input/output and feature extraction.

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