Recent advancements in speech synthesis have leveraged GAN-based networks like HiFi-GAN and BigVGAN to produce high-fidelity waveforms from mel-spectrograms. However, these networks are computationally expensive and parameter-heavy. iSTFTNet addresses these limitations by integrating inverse short-time Fourier transform (iSTFT) into the network, achieving both speed and parameter efficiency. In this paper, we introduce an extension to iSTFTNet, termed HiFTNet, which incorporates a harmonic-plus-noise source filter in the time-frequency domain that uses a sinusoidal source from the fundamental frequency (F0) inferred via a pre-trained F0 estimation network for fast inference speed. Subjective evaluations on LJSpeech show that our model significantly outperforms both iSTFTNet and HiFi-GAN, achieving ground-truth-level performance. HiFTNet also outperforms BigVGAN-base on LibriTTS for unseen speakers and achieves comparable performance to BigVGAN while being four times faster with only 1/6 of the parameters. Our work sets a new benchmark for efficient, high-quality neural vocoding, paving the way for real-time applications that demand high quality speech synthesis.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09493
Audio samples: https://hiftnet.github.io/
Check our TTS work that uses HiFTNet as speech decoder for human-level speech synthesis here: https://github.com/yl4579/StyleTTS2
git clone https://github.com/yl4579/HiFTNet.git
cd HiFTNetpip install -r requirements.txtpython train.py --config config_v1.json --[args]For the F0 model training, please refer to yl4579/PitchExtractor. This repo includes a pre-trained F0 model on LibriTTS. Still, you may want to train your own F0 model for the best performance, particularly for noisy or non-speech data, as we found that F0 estimation accuracy is essential for the vocoder performance.
Please refer to the notebook inference.ipynb for details.
You can download the pre-trained LJSpeech model here and the pre-trained LibriTTS model here. The pre-trained models contain parameters of the optimizers and discriminators that can be used for fine-tuning.