2022/10/17 by Hien Ohnaka, Ohnaka, Hien, Shinnosuke Takamichi +9
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Health Professions · #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #Digital Storytelling and Education #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Music and Audio Processing #Sound (cs.SD) #Subtitles and Audiovisual Media #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2210.09173
openalex publication_date 2022/10/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We propose a method for synthesizing environmental sounds from visually represented onomatopoeias and sound sources. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates a sound structure, i.e., the text representation of sound. From this perspective, onoma-to-wave has been proposed to synthesize environmental sounds from the desired onomatopoeia texts. Onomatopoeias have another representation: visual-text representations of sounds in comics, advertisements, and virtual reality. A visual onomatopoeia (visual text of onomatopoeia) contains rich information that is not present in the text, such as a long-short duration of the image, so the use of this representation is expected to synthesize diverse sounds. Therefore, we propose visual onoma-to-wave for environmental sound synthesis from visual onomatopoeia. The method can transfer visual concepts of the visual text and sound-source image to the synthesized sound. We also propose a data augmentation method focusing on the repetition of onomatopoeias to enhance the performance of our method. An experimental evaluation shows that the methods can synthesize diverse environmental sounds from visual text and sound-source images.