Audiosr: Versatile Audio Super-Resolution at Scale

Haohe Liu, Ke Chen, Qiao Tian, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley

Abstract: Audio super-resolution is a fundamental task that predicts high-frequency components for low-resolution audio, enhancing audio quality in digital applications. Previous methods have limitations such as the limited scope of audio types (e.g., music, speech) and specific bandwidth settings they can handle (e.g., 4 kHz to 8 kHz). In this paper, we introduce a diffusion-based generative model, AudioSR, that is capable of performing robust audio super-resolution on versatile audio types, including sound effects, music, and speech. Specifically, AudioSR can upsample any input audio signal within the bandwidth range of 2 kHz to 16 kHz to a high-resolution audio signal at 24 kHz bandwidth with a sampling rate of 48 kHz. Extensive objective evaluation on various audio super-resolution benchmarks demonstrates the strong result achieved by the proposed model. In addition, our subjective evaluation shows that AudioSR can act as a plug-and-play module to enhance the generation quality of a wide range of audio generative models, including AudioLDM, Fastspeech2, and MusicGen. Our code and demo are available at https://audioldm.github.io/audiosr.