Application of Neural Speech Synthesis Techniques to Improve Lyrical Audio Recordings

2012 marked a pivotal milestone in the field of neural networks. The intersection of general purpose computing using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), labelled big datasets, and very large neural networks (called deep neural networks) enabled a break-through in machine learning that has led to impressive results in many fields and applications, such as self-driving vehicles and real-time language translation. Recently, the advances offered by these techniques have been applied to the areas of music and speech synthesis, which have opened up exciting new areas of applications. The work proposed in this application is one such example, namely to create an application to modify and improve audio recordings of amateur singers using the latest developments in artificial recurrent neural networks.

Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Henry

Student:

Reid Lowdon

Partner:

Bigshig Music Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Media and communications

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