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Publications (3)
cs.SD2022
HEAR: Holistic Evaluation of Audio Representations
Joseph Turian, Jordie Shier, Humair Raj Khan +20
What audio embedding approach generalizes best to a wide range of downstream tasks across a variety of everyday domains without fine-tuning? The aim of the HEAR benchmark is to dev…
cs.SD2020
I'm Sorry for Your Loss: Spectrally-Based Audio Distances Are Bad at Pitch
Joseph Turian, Max Henry
Growing research demonstrates that synthetic failure modes imply poor generalization. We compare commonly used audio-to-audio losses on a synthetic benchmark, measuring the pitch d…
cs.SD2021
One Billion Audio Sounds from GPU-enabled Modular Synthesis
Joseph Turian, Jordie Shier, George Tzanetakis +2
We release synth1B1, a multi-modal audio corpus consisting of 1 billion 4-second synthesized sounds, paired with the synthesis parameters used to generate them. The dataset is 100x…