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The Mirrornet : Learning Audio Synthesizer Controls Inspired by Sensorimotor Interaction

Citation Author(s):
Yashish M. Siriwardena, Guilhem Marion, Shihab Shamma
Submitted by:
Yashish Siriwardena
Last updated:
6 May 2022 - 6:33pm
Document Type:
Presentation Slides
Document Year:
2022
Event:
Presenters:
Yashish M. Siriwardena
Paper Code:
AUD-32.2
 

Experiments to understand the sensorimotor neural interactions in the human cortical speech system support the existence of a bidirectional flow of interactions between the auditory and motor regions. Their key function is to enable the brain to ‘learn’ how to control the vocal tract for speech production. This idea is the impetus for the recently proposed "MirrorNet", a constrained autoencoder architecture. In this paper, the MirrorNet is applied to learn, in an unsupervised manner, the controls of a specific audio synthesizer (DIVA) to produce melodies only from their auditory spectrograms. The results demonstrate how the MirrorNet discovers the synthesizer parameters to generate the melodies that closely resemble the original and those of unseen melodies, and even determine the best set parameters to approximate renditions of complex piano melodies generated by a different synthesizer. This generalizability of the MirrorNet illustrates its potential to discover from sensory data the controls of arbitrary motor-plants.

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