Using a Generator Network Before the Vocoder

[saeedzou]

Hi,

First of all, great work on this project!

I have a question regarding the architecture. What would happen if you introduced a generator network before the vocoder to generate mel spectrograms, and then trained the generator while using a pre-trained vocoder? I'm curious about how this approach might affect the performance and quality of the generated audio.

Looking forward to your thoughts on this.