Retrieval-Augmented Text-to-Audio Generation

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Autori principali: Yuan, Yi, Liu, Haohe, Liu, Xubo, Huang, Qiushi, Plumbley, Mark D., Wang, Wenwu
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author Yuan, Yi
Liu, Haohe
Liu, Xubo
Huang, Qiushi
Plumbley, Mark D.
Wang, Wenwu
author_facet Yuan, Yi
Liu, Haohe
Liu, Xubo
Huang, Qiushi
Plumbley, Mark D.
Wang, Wenwu
contents Despite recent progress in text-to-audio (TTA) generation, we show that the state-of-the-art models, such as AudioLDM, trained on datasets with an imbalanced class distribution, such as AudioCaps, are biased in their generation performance. Specifically, they excel in generating common audio classes while underperforming in the rare ones, thus degrading the overall generation performance. We refer to this problem as long-tailed text-to-audio generation. To address this issue, we propose a simple retrieval-augmented approach for TTA models. Specifically, given an input text prompt, we first leverage a Contrastive Language Audio Pretraining (CLAP) model to retrieve relevant text-audio pairs. The features of the retrieved audio-text data are then used as additional conditions to guide the learning of TTA models. We enhance AudioLDM with our proposed approach and denote the resulting augmented system as Re-AudioLDM. On the AudioCaps dataset, Re-AudioLDM achieves a state-of-the-art Frechet Audio Distance (FAD) of 1.37, outperforming the existing approaches by a large margin. Furthermore, we show that Re-AudioLDM can generate realistic audio for complex scenes, rare audio classes, and even unseen audio types, indicating its potential in TTA tasks.
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Yuan, Yi
Liu, Haohe
Liu, Xubo
Huang, Qiushi
Plumbley, Mark D.
Wang, Wenwu
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Multimedia
Audio and Speech Processing
Despite recent progress in text-to-audio (TTA) generation, we show that the state-of-the-art models, such as AudioLDM, trained on datasets with an imbalanced class distribution, such as AudioCaps, are biased in their generation performance. Specifically, they excel in generating common audio classes while underperforming in the rare ones, thus degrading the overall generation performance. We refer to this problem as long-tailed text-to-audio generation. To address this issue, we propose a simple retrieval-augmented approach for TTA models. Specifically, given an input text prompt, we first leverage a Contrastive Language Audio Pretraining (CLAP) model to retrieve relevant text-audio pairs. The features of the retrieved audio-text data are then used as additional conditions to guide the learning of TTA models. We enhance AudioLDM with our proposed approach and denote the resulting augmented system as Re-AudioLDM. On the AudioCaps dataset, Re-AudioLDM achieves a state-of-the-art Frechet Audio Distance (FAD) of 1.37, outperforming the existing approaches by a large margin. Furthermore, we show that Re-AudioLDM can generate realistic audio for complex scenes, rare audio classes, and even unseen audio types, indicating its potential in TTA tasks.
title Retrieval-Augmented Text-to-Audio Generation
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Multimedia
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08051