Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Jan Buethe

Jean-Marc Valin

Ahmed Mustafa

Paris Smaragdis

Michael Mark Goodwin

Neural coding techniques may be implemented for transmission of redundant audio data. An encoding technique is implemented that uses forward encoding along with an initial state to include multiple audio frames from audio data represented as latent vectors in a network packet transmitted to a recipient. The recipient can then use backward decoding and the initial state to obtain the multiple audio frames from the latent vectors. The multiple audio frames provided in the network packet are redundant audio data that can be used to generate missing audio data.

Neural coding for redundant audio information transmission

Efficient voice synthesis using frame-based processing may be performed. An audio processing system converts an input speech waveform to an acoustic feature representation, which includes a sequence of frames at a lower resolution than the sampling resolution of the input waveform. The system propagates the acoustic feature representation through GRUs and fully-connected layers, while maintaining the lower resolution. At the end, the system performs a flattening operation on the frames of the final acoustic feature representation to generate an output waveform at a target sampling resolution.

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Munich, Germany

Jan Buethe