There are a number of rare collector’s items in the sale, including a modified Moog Model 15 synthesizer purchased by John in ...

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

Cher returned to Saturday Night Live on December 20, marking her first time as the show’s musical guest in over 40 years. The 79-year-old icon performed during the season’s final episode, hosted by ...

Despite significant advances in neural vocoders using diffusion models and their variants, these methods, unfortunately, inherently suffer from a performance-inference dilemma, which stems from the ...

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 ...

Dan Deacon, experimental musician and Baltimore resident for over 20 years, performed a strange, mesmerizing rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” at the Baltimore Orioles’ home game against the New ...

Today the Baltimore Orioles played a home game against the New York Mets. For the "Star Spangled Banner," Dan Deacon used his electronic flair to make his performance unique. The Baltimore-based ...

Shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to Qatar in May 2025, a rumor circulated online that the country's ruling emir said he regretted inviting the American commander-in-chief "to the ...

AT the World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco great interest was shown in the speech synthesizer shown in the Bell System exhibits. In the December number of the Bell Laboratories Record, H.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Tencent AI Lab have ...

In the rapidly developing field of audio synthesis, Nvidia has recently introduced BigVGAN v2. This neural vocoder breaks previous records for audio creation speed, quality, and adaptability by ...