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What is: HiFi-GAN?

SourceHiFi-GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Efficient and High Fidelity Speech Synthesis
Year2000
Data SourceCC BY-SA - https://paperswithcode.com

HiFi-GAN is a generative adversarial network for speech synthesis. HiFi-GAN consists of one generator and two discriminators: multi-scale and multi-period discriminators. The generator and discriminators are trained adversarially, along with two additional losses for improving training stability and model performance.

The generator is a fully convolutional neural network. It uses a mel-spectrogram as input and upsamples it through transposed convolutions until the length of the output sequence matches the temporal resolution of raw waveforms. Every transposed convolution is followed by a multi-receptive field fusion (MRF) module.

For the discriminator, a multi-period discriminator (MPD) is used consisting of several sub-discriminators each handling a portion of periodic signals of input audio. Additionally, to capture consecutive patterns and long-term dependencies, the multi-scale discriminator (MSD) proposed in MelGAN is used, which consecutively evaluates audio samples at different levels.