From Discrete Tokens to High-Fidelity Audio Using Multi-Band Diffusion

Robin San Roman, Yossi Adi, Antoine Deleforge, Romain Serizel, Gabriel Synnaeve, Alexandre Défossez

Keywords: diffusion, audio, compression

TL;DR: A diffusion based approach to decoding compressed audio tokens

Abstract:

Deep generative models can generate high-fidelity audio conditioned on various
types of representations (e.g., mel-spectrograms, Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients
(MFCC)). Recently, such models have been used to synthesize audio
waveforms conditioned on highly compressed representations. Although such
methods produce impressive results, they are prone to generate audible artifacts
when the conditioning is flawed or imperfect. An alternative modeling approach is
to use diffusion models. However, these have mainly been used as speech vocoders
(i.e., conditioned on mel-spectrograms) or generating relatively low sampling
rate signals. In this work, we propose a high-fidelity multi-band diffusion-based
framework that generates any type of audio modality (e.g., speech, music, environmental
sounds) from low-bitrate discrete representations. At equal bit rate,
the proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art generative techniques in terms
of perceptual quality. Training and evaluation code are available on the facebookresearch/
audiocraft github project. Samples are available on the following
link (https://ai.honu.io/papers/mbd/).

Submission Number: 4484