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 ...

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Abstract: This paper introduces V2Coder, a non-autoregressive vocoder based on hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs). The hierarchical VAE with hierarchically extended prior and approximate ...

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