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Generating Diverse Vocal Bursts with StyleGAN2 and MEL-Spectrograms
Marco Jiralerspong, Gauthier Gidel
We describe our approach for the generative emotional vocal burst task (ExVo Generate) of the ICML Expressive Vocalizations Competition. We train a conditional StyleGAN2 architecture on mel-spectrograms of preprocessed versions of the audio samples. The mel-spectrograms generated by the model are then inverted back to the audio domain. As a result, our generated samples substantially improve upon the baseline provided by the competition from a qualitative and quantitative perspective for all emotions. More precisely, even for our worst-performing emotion (awe), we obtain an FAD of 1.76 compared to the baseline of 4.81 (as a reference, the FAD between the train/validation sets for awe is 0.776).
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