Everything about Vocoder

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: VocoderA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: APNet: An All-Frame-Level Neural Vocoder Incorporating Direct Prediction of Amplitude and Phase SpectraInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Fundamentals of voice-quality engineering in wireless networksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: WORLD: A Vocoder-Based High-Quality Speech Synthesis System for Real-Time ApplicationsCited 775 times
5. Go sideways: Harmonic Vector Excitation CodingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Secure voiceA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• WORLD: A Vocoder-Based High-Quality Speech Synthesis System for Real-Time Applications

  Masanori MORISE, Fumiya YOKOMORI, Kenji OZAWA · 2016 · IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems · 775 citations

• Multiband excitation vocoder

  Daniel W. Griffin, Jae S. Lim · 1988 · IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing · 344 citations

• Phase Vocoder

  J. L. Flanagan, R. M. Golden · 1966 · Bell System Technical Journal · 226 citations

• A mixed excitation LPC vocoder model for low bit rate speech coding

  A.V. McCree, T.P. Barnwell · 1995 · IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing · 218 citations

• STRAIGHT, exploitation of the other aspect of VOCODER: Perceptually isomorphic decomposition of speech sounds

  Hideki Kawahara · 2006 · Acoustical Science and Technology · 185 citations

• Improved phase vocoder time-scale modification of audio

  J. Laroche, M. Dolson · 1999 · IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing · 182 citations

• Relationship between perception of spectral ripple and speech recognition in cochlear implant and vocoder listeners

  Leonid M. Litvak, Anthony J. Spahr, Aniket A. Saoji · 2007 · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 176 citations

• Implementation of the digital phase vocoder using the fast Fourier transform

  M. Portnoff · 1976 · IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing · 139 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• APNet: An All-Frame-Level Neural Vocoder Incorporating Direct Prediction of Amplitude and Phase Spectra

  Yang Ai, Zhen-Hua Ling · 2023 · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing · 22 citations

• Avocodo: Generative Adversarial Network for Artifact-Free Vocoder

  Taejun Bak, Junmo Lee, Hanbin Bae · 2023 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 21 citations

• Harmonic-Net: Fundamental Frequency and Speech Rate Controllable Fast Neural Vocoder

  Keisuke Matsubara, Takuma Okamoto, Ryoichi Takashima · 2023 · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing · 12 citations

• Short Implicit Voice Training Affects Listening Effort During a Voice Cue Sensitivity Task With Vocoder-Degraded Speech

  Ada Biçer, Thomas Koelewijn, Deniz Başkent · 2023 · Ear & Hearing · 9 citations

• Investigations on speaker adaptation using a continuous vocoder within recurrent neural network based text-to-speech synthesis

  Ali Raheem Mandeel, Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi, Tamás Gábor Csapó · 2022 · Multimedia Tools and Applications · 9 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Fundamentals of voice-quality engineering in wireless networksAvi Perry · 2006
• 📕Voice quality assessment of vocoders in tandem configurationChristopher Redding · 2001
• 📕How to wreck a nice beachDave Tompkins · 2010
• 📕Vokodernai͡a︡ svi͡a︡zʹM. A. Sapozhkov · 1983
• Reduktion der Übertragungsrate eines Formantvocoders mit Hilfe des Pattern MatchingBernd Finkbein · 1980
• 📕How to wreck a nice beachDave Tompkins · 2010
• 📕A real-time optical spectrum analyzerAlan Sander Hoffman · 1973
• Practical approaches to speech codingPanos E. Papamichalis · 1987

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