Speech Synthesis By Unrolling Diffusion Process using Neural Network Layers

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Speech Synthesis By Unrolling Diffusion Process using Neural Network Layers

Peter Ochieng

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The authors' main claim Extensive evaluations on single- and multi-speaker datasets demonstrate that UDPNet consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both quality and efficiency, while generalizing effectively to unseen speech.

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This work introduces UDPNet, a novel architecture designed to accelerate the reverse diffusion process in speech synthesis. Unlike traditional diffusion models that rely on timestep embeddings and shared network parameters, UDPNet unrolls the reverse diffusion process directly into the network architecture, with successive layers corresponding to equally spaced steps in the diffusion schedule. Each layer progressively refines the noisy input, culminating in a high-fidelity estimation of the original data, \(x_0\). Additionally, we redefine the learning target by predicting latent variables instead of the conventional \(x_0\) or noise \(\epsilon_0\). This shift addresses the common issue of large prediction errors in early denoising stages, effectively reducing speech distortion. Extensive evaluations on single- and multi-speaker datasets demonstrate that UDPNet consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both quality and efficiency, while generalizing effectively to unseen speech. These results position UDPNet as a robust solution for real-time speech synthesis applications. Sample audio is available at https://onexpeters.github.io/UDPNet.

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This work introduces UDPNet, a novel architecture designed to accelerate the reverse diffusion process in speech synthesis. Unlike traditional diffusion models that rely on timestep embeddings and shared network parameters, UDPNet unrolls the reverse diffusion process directly into the network architecture, with successive layers corresponding to equally spaced steps in the diffusion schedule. Each layer progressively refines the noisy input, culminating in a high-fidelity estimation of the original data, \(x_0\). Additionally, we redefine the learning target by predicting latent variables instead of the conventional \(x_0\) or noise \(\epsilon_0\). This shift addresses the common issue of large prediction errors in early denoising stages, effectively reducing speech distortion. Extensive evaluations on single- and multi-speaker datasets demonstrate that UDPNet consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both quality and efficiency, while generalizing effectively to unseen speech. These results position UDPNet as a robust solution for real-time speech synthesis applications. Sample audio is available at https://onexpeters.github.io/UDPNet.

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To enhance conditional generation, FiLM parameters \(β\) and \(γ\) were generated following the upsampling block approach proposed in [ref] , modulating the activations of corresponding layers.

WaveGrad: Estimating Gradients for Waveform Generation · Model Configurations · 1.00
We evaluated the gradient noise scales of three proposed objective functions: \(L_vlb\), \(L_simple\), and \(L_hybrid\), following the methodology in [ref] and [ref] .

An Empirical Model of Large-Batch Training · Gradient Noise Scales of the Objective Functions · 1.00

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Following [ref] , we used 12,764 utterances (23 hours) for training and 130 utterances for testing.

WaveGrad: Estimating Gradients for Waveform Generation · Dataset · 0.91

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* WaveNet [ref] [<https://github.com/r9y9/wavenet_vocoder>] * WaveGlow [ref] [<https://github.com/NVIDIA/waveglow>] * MelGAN [ref] [<https://github.com/descriptinc/melgan-neurips>] * HiFi-GAN [ref] [<https://github.com/jik876/hifi-gan>] * WaveGrad [ref] [<https://github.com/tencent-ailab/bddm>] * DiffWave [ref] [<https://github.com/tencent-ailab/bddm>] * BDDM [ref] [<https://github.com/tencent-ailab/bddm>] * FastDiff [ref] [<https://FastDiff.github.io/>] * CoMoSpeech [ref] [https://github.com/zhenye234/CoMoSpeech]

WaveGrad: Estimating Gradients for Waveform Generation · Baseline Models and Metrics · 0.85
* WaveNet [ref] [<https://github.com/r9y9/wavenet_vocoder>] * WaveGlow [ref] [<https://github.com/NVIDIA/waveglow>] * MelGAN [ref] [<https://github.com/descriptinc/melgan-neurips>] * HiFi-GAN [ref] [<https://github.com/jik876/hifi-gan>] * WaveGrad [ref] [<https://github.com/tencent-ailab/bddm>] * DiffWave [ref] [<https://github.com/tencent-ailab/bddm>] * BDDM [ref] [<https://github.com/tencent-ailab/bddm>] * FastDiff [ref] [<https://FastDiff.github.io/>] * CoMoSpeech [ref] [https://github.com/zhenye234/CoMoSpeech]

WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio · Baseline Models and Metrics · 0.85
* WaveNet [ref] [<https://github.com/r9y9/wavenet_vocoder>] * WaveGlow [ref] [<https://github.com/NVIDIA/waveglow>] * MelGAN [ref] [<https://github.com/descriptinc/melgan-neurips>] * HiFi-GAN [ref] [<https://github.com/jik876/hifi-gan>] * WaveGrad [ref] [<https://github.com/tencent-ailab/bddm>] * DiffWave [ref] [<https://github.com/tencent-ailab/bddm>] * BDDM [ref] [<https://github.com/tencent-ailab/bddm>] * FastDiff [ref] [<https://FastDiff.github.io/>] * CoMoSpeech [ref] [https://github.com/zhenye234/CoMoSpeech]

DiffWave: A Versatile Diffusion Model for Audio Synthesis · Baseline Models and Metrics · 0.85

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Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) [ref] have become a dominant paradigm in speech synthesis [ref] due to their ability to model complex data distributions.

WaveGrad: Estimating Gradients for Waveform Generation · Introduction · 0.96
Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) [ref] have become a dominant paradigm in speech synthesis [ref] due to their ability to model complex data distributions.

DiffWave: A Versatile Diffusion Model for Audio Synthesis · Introduction · 0.96
Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) [ref] have become a dominant paradigm in speech synthesis [ref] due to their ability to model complex data distributions.

BDDM: Bilateral Denoising Diffusion Models for Fast and High-Quality Speech Synthesis · Introduction · 0.96

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