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Our region is the home of two great intellectual traditions regarding stewardship of the earth: traditional ecological knowledge of Indigenous People and scientific ecological knowledge. The mission ...

Since 2007, the Native American Educational and Cultural Center (NAECC) serves as a second home for the Purdue community. We are committed to nurturing student learning and academic success, we ...

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Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

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

Abstract: While transformers demonstrate outstanding performance across various audio tasks, their application to neural vocoders remains challenging. Neural vocoders require the generation of long ...

Unofficial PyTorch implementation of Vocos by Hubert Siuzdak. Vocos is a fast neural vocoder designed to synthesize audio waveforms from acoustic features. Trained using a Generative Adversarial ...

RepCodec is a speech tokenization method for converting a speech waveform into a sequence of discrete semantic tokens. The main idea is to train a representation codec which learns a vector ...