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Understanding WaveNet architecture | by Satyam Kumar | Medium

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WaveNet is deep autoregressive, generative model, which produces human-like voice, where raw audio is feeded as input to the model, taking…

WaveNet is deep autoregressive, generative model, which produces human-like voice, where raw audio is feeded as input to the model, taking speech synthesis to another level. 5 min read May 20, 2019 -- WaveNet is combination of two different ideas wavelet and Neural networks. Raw audio is generally represented as a sequence of 16 bits. 16 bits samples produces ²¹⁶ (65536) quantization values, which are processed through softmax, making it computationally expensive. Hence the sequences of samples is reduced to 8 bits, using μ-law transformation, F(x) = sign(x) ln(1+μ|x|)/ln(1+μ), -1 ≤ x ≤…

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