“War, what is it good for?” Edwin Starr famously sang in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War, protesting America’s involvement in the ongoing conflict in Southeast Asia. War may be a hideous ...

The ragtag group of respected hardcore and punk figures are six albums deep and still packing hefty riffs into their songs.

Post-punk icons, Britpop legends, garage rock groups, OG shoegazers, electronic innovators, post-rock pioneers, Sassy Magazine cover stars, and more ...

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: We propose a new algorithm for time stretching music signals based on the theory of nonstationary Gabor frames (NSGFs). The algorithm extends the techniques of the classical phase vocoder ...

This project develops tools for interfacing with Advanced Multiband Excitation (AMBE) hardware vocoder chips developed by Digital Voice Systems, Inc. (DVSI). The proprietary AMBE technology is used in ...

It’s not as though there’s been a lack of great guitar bands recently — look at Turnstile’s explosion in popularity over the past few years, to name just one example — but as summer turned to autumn ...

RepCodec is a speech tokenization method for converting a speech waveform into a sequence of discrete semantic tokens. The main idea is to train a representation codec which learns a vector ...