P6-05: Adapting a Text-to-Audio Model for Room Impulse Response Generation

Kim, Kirak*, Kim, Sungyoung

Subjects (starting with primary): Modelling, analysis and synthesis of acoustic environments ; New and emerging topics in speech and audio processing

Presented in Poster Session 6

Abstract:

Room Impulse Responses (RIRs) enable realistic acoustic simulation, with applications ranging from multimedia production to speech data augmentation. However, acquiring high-quality real-world RIRs is labor-intensive, and data scarcity remains a challenge for data-driven RIR generation approaches. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to RIR generation by adapting a pre-trained text-to-audio model, demonstrating for the first time that large-scale generative audio priors can be effectively leveraged for this task. To address the lack of text-RIR paired data, we utilize a labeling pipeline leveraging vision-language models to extract acoustic descriptions from existing image-RIR datasets. We introduce an in-context learning strategy to accommodate free-form user prompts during inference. Evaluations including a subjective listening test demonstrate that our model generates plausible RIRs with substantially less training data. Audio examples are available on our demo website.

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