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WaveGen achieves state-of-the-art end-to-end text-to-waveform generation

Researchers have introduced WaveGen, a novel diffusion framework for text-to-waveform generation that operates entirely end-to-end. This model bypasses the need for external components like audio codecs, vocoders, or alignment modules by jointly learning spectral and waveform trajectories. WaveGen achieves state-of-the-art results on the Emilia training dataset, demonstrating its effectiveness and scalability with model sizes ranging up to 0.6 billion parameters. AI

IMPACT This end-to-end approach could simplify and improve the quality of text-to-speech systems.

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WaveGen achieves state-of-the-art end-to-end text-to-waveform generation

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    WaveGen: Truly End-to-End Waveform Generation via Internal Spectral Trajectory Learning

    WaveGen is a fully end-to-end diffusion framework for text-to-waveform generation that jointly learns spectral and waveform trajectories via Spectral Forcing without external audio codecs, vocoders, latent models, alignment modules, or self-supervised representations, achieving s…