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BigVSAN: Enhancing GAN-based Neural Vocoders with Slicing Adversarial Network

Citation Author(s):
Takashi Shibuya, Yuhta Takida, Yuki Mitsufuji
Submitted by:
Takashi Shibuya
Last updated:
11 April 2024 - 7:53pm
Document Type:
Presentation Slides
Document Year:
2024
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Presenters:
Takashi Shibuya
Paper Code:
SLP-L18.3
 

Generative adversarial network (GAN)-based vocoders have been intensively studied because they can synthesize high-fidelity audio waveforms faster than real-time. However, it has been reported that most GANs fail to obtain the optimal projection for discriminating between real and fake data in the feature space. In the literature, it has been demonstrated that slicing adversarial network (SAN), an improved GAN training framework that can find the optimal projection, is effective in the image generation task. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of SAN in the vocoding task. For this purpose, we propose a scheme to modify least-squares GAN, which most GAN-based vocoders adopt, so that their loss functions satisfy the requirements of SAN. Through our experiments, we demonstrate that SAN can improve the performance of GAN-based vocoders, including BigVGAN, with small modifications.

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