Abstract: Vocoder-based speech synthesis has become a promising technique to accommodate the demands of high-quality speech analysis, manipulation, and synthesis. However, most existing works focus on ...

Abstract: This paper introduces V2Coder, a non-autoregressive vocoder based on hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs). The hierarchical VAE with hierarchically extended prior and approximate ...

Boldly going where no Predator film has gone before, Predator: Badlands flips the franchise script, putting the Predator (aka Yautja) front and center. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, the same visionary ...

Sanrio, Pingu BV, and Taito announced a collection of four Pingu x Tuxedo Sam plush toys, with the penguin stuffed animals debuting in “late” November 2025. They’ll be prizes in Japanese arcades. It’s ...

Prudence Rees-Lee is affiliated with Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio as a commissioned artist. On November 18 and 19 in Nashville, United States, auction house Julien’s will auction more than 450 ...

Browsing through the auction is like a trip through a museum. There are iconic drum machines like the Roland TR-606, legendary synths like the Synthi A (mislabeled as an AKS), and rare vocoders, ...

At Paste Music, we’re listening to so many new tunes on any given day, we barely have any time to listen to each other. Nevertheless, every week we can swing it, we take stock of the previous seven ...

Mattel has partnered with The Pinkfong Company to reintroduce Pingu to audiences in Korea, with the latter exclusively distributing content from the 1990s and 2000s in the market. “Pingu is one of the ...

The Pinkfong Company enters an exclusive distribution partnership with Mattel to reintroduce Pingu to audiences in Korea. The beloved stop-motion series will return to the domestic market with ...

IRAN (17D: Country that celebrates Sizdah Bedar) In IRAN, Sizdah Bedar is celebrated thirteen days after Nowruz, the Iranian New Year. The festival is also known as Nature's Day and is celebrated by ...