Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Xu, Nan, Huang, Zhaolong, Zeng, Xiao
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2025
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03486
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
_version_ 1866908690540396544
author Xu, Nan
Huang, Zhaolong
Zeng, Xiao
author_facet Xu, Nan
Huang, Zhaolong
Zeng, Xiao
contents With the emergence of GAN-based vocoders, the discriminator, as a crucial component, has been developed recently. In our work, we focus on improving the time-frequency based discriminator. Particularly, Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) representation is usually used as input of time-frequency based discriminator. However, the STFT spectrogram has the same frequency resolution at different frequency bins, which results in an inferior performance, especially for singing voices. Motivated by this, we propose a universal harmonic discriminator for dynamic frequency resolution modeling and harmonic tracking. Specifically, we design a harmonic filter with learnable triangular band-pass filter banks, where each frequency bin has a flexible bandwidth. Additionally, we add a half-harmonic to capture fine-grained harmonic relationships at low-frequency band. Experiments on speech and singing datasets validate the effectiveness of the proposed discriminator on both subjective and objective metrics.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2512_03486
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle A Universal Harmonic Discriminator for High-quality GAN-based Vocoder
Xu, Nan
Huang, Zhaolong
Zeng, Xiao
Audio and Speech Processing
With the emergence of GAN-based vocoders, the discriminator, as a crucial component, has been developed recently. In our work, we focus on improving the time-frequency based discriminator. Particularly, Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) representation is usually used as input of time-frequency based discriminator. However, the STFT spectrogram has the same frequency resolution at different frequency bins, which results in an inferior performance, especially for singing voices. Motivated by this, we propose a universal harmonic discriminator for dynamic frequency resolution modeling and harmonic tracking. Specifically, we design a harmonic filter with learnable triangular band-pass filter banks, where each frequency bin has a flexible bandwidth. Additionally, we add a half-harmonic to capture fine-grained harmonic relationships at low-frequency band. Experiments on speech and singing datasets validate the effectiveness of the proposed discriminator on both subjective and objective metrics.
title A Universal Harmonic Discriminator for High-quality GAN-based Vocoder
topic Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03486