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“There are no shortcuts,” says Maynard James Keenan, one-third of the slippery, enigmatic,experimental rock project Puscifer. “You have to wax-on/wax-off and be frustrated with wax-on/wax-off, while ...

AT the World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco great interest was shown in the speech synthesizer shown in the Bell System exhibits. In the December number of the Bell Laboratories Record, H.

I couldn’t think of a line for the chorus – but we had just been to France. I Baudelaire into the lyrics somewhere, too’ ...

The Chicago duo bring together clean electropop, beats and simple, sincere lyrics into music that's cosy and immediately ...

The voice-controlled, transforming robot is an objectively cool toy, but a little less than meets the eye in the sound department.

Released in 1996, when Aaliyah was a 17-year-old high school senior in Detroit, One in a Million is one of the coolest and yet most impenetrable R&B albums of the 1990s. It’s especially true of the ...

This week’s Indie Basement Classic is an ugly beautiful thing that turns 30 this year. For more of this week’s new albums, Andrew reviews Joyce Manor, By Storm, Red Sun and more in Notable Releases. I ...

Collins discusses the making of his huge 1981 hit: "I was trying to go in a simpler direction" The post Phil Collins on ‘In ...

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 ...

Despite significant advances in neural vocoders using diffusion models and their variants, these methods, unfortunately, inherently suffer from a performance-inference dilemma, which stems from the ...

Abstract: A vocoder is used to express a speech waveform with a controllable parametric representation that can be converted back into a speech waveform. Vocoders representing their main categories ...