提出无混叠的神经波形合成方法,提升高音频生成质量与效率。
Wavehax: Aliasing-Free Neural Waveform Synthesis Based on 2D Convolution and Harmonic Prior for Reliable Complex Spectrogram Estimation
- 结合2D卷积与谐波先验,实现无混叠的复杂谱图估计。
- 在高基频外推场景下表现优异,语音质量接近顶级模型。
- 参数量不足HiFi-GAN的5%,推理速度超4倍,适合低资源部署。
神经声码器常因时域非线性操作和重采样层导致混叠,使高频成分折叠至低频范围,难以区分原始与混叠成分,引发两大问题:一是增加波形生成的计算复杂度,二是限制高基频外推性能,降低语音感知质量。本文指出:1)时域非线性操作不可避免引入混叠,但对谐波生成具有强归纳偏置;2)时频域处理可避免混叠,但缺乏有效谐波生成的归纳偏置。基于此,提出Wavehax,一种融合2D卷积与谐波先验的无混叠神经波形生成器,实现可靠的复杂谱图估计。实验表明,Wavehax在语音质量上媲美现有高保真声码器,且在高基频外推场景中表现卓越;模型乘加操作少于HiFi-GAN V1的5%,参数量更低,CPU推理速度超过4倍。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Neural vocoders often struggle with aliasing in latent feature spaces, caused by time-domain nonlinear operations and resampling layers. Aliasing folds high-frequency components into the low-frequency range, making aliased and original frequency components indistinguishable and introducing two practical issues. First, aliasing complicates the waveform generation process, as the subsequent layers must address these aliasing effects, increasing the computational complexity. Second, it limits extrapolation performance, particularly in handling high fundamental frequencies, which degrades the perceptual quality of generated speech waveforms. This paper demonstrates that 1) time-domain nonlinear operations inevitably introduce aliasing but provide a strong inductive bias for harmonic generation, and 2) time-frequency-domain processing can achieve aliasing-free waveform synthesis but lacks the inductive bias for effective harmonic generation. Building on this insight, we propose Wavehax, an aliasing-free neural WAVEform generator that integrates 2D convolution and a HArmonic prior for reliable Complex Spectrogram estimation. Experimental results show that Wavehax achieves speech quality comparable to existing high-fidelity neural vocoders and exhibits exceptional robustness in scenarios requiring high fundamental frequency extrapolation, where aliasing effects become typically severe. Moreover, Wavehax requires less than 5% of the multiply-accumulate operations and model parameters compared to HiFi-GAN V1, while achieving over four times faster CPU inference speed.
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