BigVGAN: A Universal Neural Vocoder with Large-Scale Training

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04658v1
• Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 17:56:10 GMT
• Title: BigVGAN: A Universal Neural Vocoder with Large-Scale Training
• Authors: Sang-gil Lee, Wei Ping, Boris Ginsburg, Bryan Catanzaro, Sungroh Yoon
• Abstract summary: We present BigVGAN, a universal vocoder that generalizes well under various unseen conditions in zero-shot setting. We introduce periodic nonlinearities and anti-aliased representation into the generator, which brings the desired inductive bias for waveform. We train our GAN vocoder at the largest scale up to 112M parameters, which is unprecedented in the literature.
• Score: 49.16254684584935
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Despite recent progress in generative adversarial network(GAN)-based vocoders, where the model generates raw waveform conditioned on mel spectrogram, it is still challenging to synthesize high-fidelity audio for numerous speakers across varied recording environments. In this work, we present BigVGAN, a universal vocoder that generalizes well under various unseen conditions in zero-shot setting. We introduce periodic nonlinearities and anti-aliased representation into the generator, which brings the desired inductive bias for waveform synthesis and significantly improves audio quality. Based on our improved generator and the state-of-the-art discriminators, we train our GAN vocoder at the largest scale up to 112M parameters, which is unprecedented in the literature. In particular, we identify and address the training instabilities specific to such scale, while maintaining high-fidelity output without over-regularization. Our BigVGAN achieves the state-of-the-art zero-shot performance for various out-of-distribution scenarios, including new speakers, novel languages, singing voices, music and instrumental audio in unseen (even noisy) recording environments. We will release our code and model at: https://github.com/NVIDIA/BigVGAN

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