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Last month, KV331 Audio made its flagship synth app, SynthMaster 2 for iPad, available as a free download. Only a few weeks later, KV331 is celebrating the festive season with another giveaway, ...

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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 ...

Abstract: The quality of raw audio waveform generated by a vocoder could affect various audio generative tasks. In recent years, the dominance of source-filter vocoders was greatly challenged by ...