Abstract: Vocoder-based speech synthesis has become a promising technique to accommodate the demands of high-quality speech analysis, manipulation, and synthesis. However, most existing works focus on ...

When the famous writers known as The Beats were driving all across the country in the mid-20th century, searching for that numinous muse, they would often search for the best saxophone players who ...

Abstract: This paper introduces V2Coder, a non-autoregressive vocoder based on hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs). The hierarchical VAE with hierarchically extended prior and approximate ...

While the Islanders blanked the Rangers on Saturday night, the real highlight came before the game, when 104-year-old Dominick Critelli, a World War II veteran, performed the national anthem on his ...

Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats. Credit...Illustration by ...

Break out your sunglasses and get ready for a good time because it’s National Saxophone Day! The holiday marks the birthday of Adolphe Sax, who invented the instrument in the 1840s. Although it’s ...

Plenty of games are challenging enough, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying to make them even more challenging via unconventional means. We’ve seen Dark Souls 2 beaten by someone using a guitar ...

Steve Sax returns to Sacramento as A’s analyst, blending insight with legacy. Sax survived a near-fatal heart condition with surgery on anniversary of father’s death. Sax honors his late Marine son by ...

Retirement looks good on Jason Kelce. The Super Bowl champion and former All-Pro center for the Philadelphia Eagles hung up the cleats after the 2023 season, opting to shift into a new career doing ...

As he seems to always do, former Eagles center and "Monday Night Countdown" host Jason Kelce made his presence known ahead of the Ravens' game against the Lions Monday night. During pregame warmups, ...

Git isn’t hard to learn. Moreover, with a Git GUI such as Atlassian’s Sourcetree, and a SaaS code repository such as Bitbucket, mastery of the industry’s most powerful version control tools is within ...