FCHiFi-GAN: Aggrandizing Fast Convergence with Batchwise Normalization
摘要
In past decades, speech synthesis methods based on Deep Learning (DL) has been used to model the raw speech waveform and successfully generated natural-sounding waveforms. However, the autoregressive, non-autoregressive, flow-based, and GAN-based models that produced acoustic features using intermediate prediction of Mel spectrogram and subsequently used vocoders to generate the raw waveforms. Autoregressive and flow-based architecture requires a million of steps to achieve a realistic waveform generation capability, which is resource-intensive. In this paper, we introduce Faster Convergence HiFi-GAN (FCHiFi-GAN) exploit batch-wise normalization method to identify and capture data distribution effectively. There is a less number of architectures are capable of fast training. The proposed architecture got the real-like speech generation with only 600K steps, whether existing state-of-the-art architectures need 2.5M (16 batch size) and 580k (24 batch size) steps, respectively, for HiFi-GAN and WaveGlow. However, the number of steps varies depending on the dataset and total number of parameters. We trained the HiFi-GAN with the same setting for evaluation and got noticeably good results over the baseline architecture. To evaluate the performance of the FCHiFi-GAN, we measured and analysed generated samples with existing architecture using subjective (Mean Opinion Score (MOS)) and objective (Mel Cepstral Distance (MCD)) measures, Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ), Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), and Modulation Spectra Distance (MSD). FCHiFi-GAN generated samples achieve 4.42 MOS (+0.06 than baseline architecture) while reducing the required computational cost to generate high-quality samples.