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20202026
most citedMake-An-Audio: Text-To-Audio Generation with Prompt-Enhanced Diffusion Models

47 citations · 159 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

cs.SD2026

HeartMuLa: A Family of Open Sourced Music Foundation Models

Dongchao Yang, Yuxin Xie, Yuguo Yin +26

We present a family of open-source Music Foundation Models designed to advance large-scale music understanding and generation across diverse tasks and modalities. Our framework con…

cs.SD2025

SupCLAP: Controlling Optimization Trajectory Drift in Audio-Text Contrastive Learning with Support Vector Regularization

Jiehui Luo, Yuguo Yin, Yuxin Xie +6

Contrastive language-audio pretraining, which aims to unify multimodal representations in a shared embedding space, serves as a cornerstone for building a wide range of application…

eess.AS2025

CapSpeech: Enabling Downstream Applications in Style-Captioned Text-to-Speech

Helin Wang, Jiarui Hai, Dading Chong +11

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have significantly transformed the field of style-captioned text-to-speech synthesis (CapTTS). However, adapting CapTTS to…

eess.AS2025

SoloSpeech: Enhancing Intelligibility and Quality in Target Speech Extraction through a Cascaded Generative Pipeline

Helin Wang, Jiarui Hai, Dongchao Yang +7

Target Speech Extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a target speaker's voice from a mixture of multiple speakers by leveraging speaker-specific cues, typically provided as auxiliary aud…

cs.CV2025

VARGPT-v1.1: Improve Visual Autoregressive Large Unified Model via Iterative Instruction Tuning and Reinforcement Learning

Xianwei Zhuang, Yuxin Xie, Yufan Deng +5

In this work, we present VARGPT-v1.1, an advanced unified visual autoregressive model that builds upon our previous framework VARGPT. The model preserves the dual paradigm of next-…

cs.SD2025

ATRI: Mitigating Multilingual Audio Text Retrieval Inconsistencies by Reducing Data Distribution Errors

Yuguo Yin, Yuxin Xie, Wenyuan Yang +5

Multilingual audio-text retrieval (ML-ATR) is a challenging task that aims to retrieve audio clips or multilingual texts from databases. However, existing ML-ATR schemes suffer fro…

eess.AS2023★ 1 cited

DPM-TSE: A Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Target Sound Extraction

Jiarui Hai, Helin Wang, Dongchao Yang +3

Common target sound extraction (TSE) approaches primarily relied on discriminative approaches in order to separate the target sound while minimizing interference from the unwanted…

cs.SD2023

NADiffuSE: Noise-aware Diffusion-based Model for Speech Enhancement

Wen Wang, Dongchao Yang, Qichen Ye +2

The goal of speech enhancement (SE) is to eliminate the background interference from the noisy speech signal. Generative models such as diffusion models (DM) have been applied to t…

eess.AS2023★ 2 cited

Make-A-Voice: Unified Voice Synthesis With Discrete Representation

Rongjie Huang, Chunlei Zhang, Yongqi Wang +7

Various applications of voice synthesis have been developed independently despite the fact that they generate "voice" as output in common. In addition, the majority of voice synthe…

cs.SD2023★ 10 cited

Make-An-Audio 2: Temporal-Enhanced Text-to-Audio Generation

Jiawei Huang, Yi Ren, Rongjie Huang +7

Large diffusion models have been successful in text-to-audio (T2A) synthesis tasks, but they often suffer from common issues such as semantic misalignment and poor temporal consist…

cs.SD2023★ 20 cited

HiFi-Codec: Group-residual Vector quantization for High Fidelity Audio Codec

Dongchao Yang, Songxiang Liu, Rongjie Huang +3

Audio codec models are widely used in audio communication as a crucial technique for compressing audio into discrete representations. Nowadays, audio codec models are increasingly…

cs.CL2023★ 21 cited

AudioGPT: Understanding and Generating Speech, Music, Sound, and Talking Head

Rongjie Huang, Mingze Li, Dongchao Yang +10

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. Despite the rece…

cs.SD2023

Improving Text-Audio Retrieval by Text-aware Attention Pooling and Prior Matrix Revised Loss

Yifei Xin, Dongchao Yang, Yuexian Zou

In text-audio retrieval (TAR) tasks, due to the heterogeneity of contents between text and audio, the semantic information contained in the text is only similar to certain frames w…

cs.SD2023

Improving Weakly Supervised Sound Event Detection with Causal Intervention

Yifei Xin, Dongchao Yang, Fan Cui +2

Existing weakly supervised sound event detection (WSSED) work has not explored both types of co-occurrences simultaneously, i.e., some sound events often co-occur, and their occurr…

cs.SD2023★ 47 cited

Make-An-Audio: Text-To-Audio Generation with Prompt-Enhanced Diffusion Models

Rongjie Huang, Jiawei Huang, Dongchao Yang +7

Large-scale multimodal generative modeling has created milestones in text-to-image and text-to-video generation. Its application to audio still lags behind for two main reasons: th…

cs.SD2023★ 5 cited

InstructTTS: Modelling Expressive TTS in Discrete Latent Space with Natural Language Style Prompt

Dongchao Yang, Songxiang Liu, Rongjie Huang +2

Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize different speaking style speech according to human's demands. Nowadays, there are two common ways to control speaking styles: (1)…

cs.SD2022★ 1 cited

NoreSpeech: Knowledge Distillation based Conditional Diffusion Model for Noise-robust Expressive TTS

Dongchao Yang, Songxiang Liu, Jianwei Yu +3

Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) can synthesize a new speaking style by imiating prosody and timbre from a reference audio, which faces the following challenges: (1) The highly dyna…

cs.SD2022★ 9 cited

Diffsound: Discrete Diffusion Model for Text-to-sound Generation

Dongchao Yang, Jianwei Yu, Helin Wang +4

Generating sound effects that humans want is an important topic. However, there are few studies in this area for sound generation. In this study, we investigate generating sound co…

eess.AS2022

Speaker-Aware Mixture of Mixtures Training for Weakly Supervised Speaker Extraction

Zifeng Zhao, Rongzhi Gu, Dongchao Yang +2

Dominant researches adopt supervised training for speaker extraction, while the scarcity of ideally clean corpus and channel mismatch problem are rarely considered. To this end, we…

cs.SD2022

RaDur: A Reference-aware and Duration-robust Network for Target Sound Detection

Dongchao Yang, Helin Wang, Zhongjie Ye +2

Target sound detection (TSD) aims to detect the target sound from a mixture audio given the reference information. Previous methods use a conditional network to extract a sound-dis…

eess.AS2022

Target Confusion in End-to-end Speaker Extraction: Analysis and Approaches

Zifeng Zhao, Dongchao Yang, Rongzhi Gu +2

Recently, end-to-end speaker extraction has attracted increasing attention and shown promising results. However, its performance is often inferior to that of a blind source separat…

cs.SD2022

Improving Target Sound Extraction with Timestamp Information

Helin Wang, Dongchao Yang, Chao Weng +2

Target sound extraction (TSE) aims to extract the sound part of a target sound event class from a mixture audio with multiple sound events. The previous works mainly focus on the p…

cs.SD2022

A Mixed supervised Learning Framework for Target Sound Detection

Dongchao Yang, Helin Wang, Yuexian Zou +1

Target sound detection (TSD) aims to detect the target sound from mixture audio given the reference information. Previous works have shown that TSD models can be trained on fully-a…

cs.SD2021★ 3 cited

Detect what you want: Target Sound Detection

Dongchao Yang, Helin Wang, Yuexian Zou +2

Human beings can perceive a target sound type from a multi-source mixture signal by the selective auditory attention, however, such functionality was hardly ever explored in machin…