This repository contains code to instantiate and deploy an audio generation model. The model generates short samples based on an existing dataset of audio clips. It maps the sample space of the input data and generates audio clips that are "inbetween" or "combinations" of the dominant features of the sounds. The model architecture is a generative adversarial neural network, trained by the IBM CODAIT Team on lo-fi instrumental music tracks from the Free Music Archive and short spoken commands from the Speech Commands Dataset. The model can generate 1.5 second audio samples of the words up, down, left, right, stop, go, as well as lo-fi instrumental music.

The model is based on the WaveGAN Model. The model files are hosted on IBM Cloud Object Storage. The code in this repository deploys the model as a web service in a Docker container. This repository was developed as part of the IBM Code Model Asset Exchange and the public API is powered by IBM Cloud..

• Chris Donahue, Julian McAuley, Miller Puckette, "Synthesizing Audio with Generative Adversarial Networks", arXiv, 2018.
• WaveGAN Github repository
• Speech Commands Dataset release blog
• Free Music Archive

• docker: The Docker command-line interface. Follow the installation instructions for your system.
• The minimum recommended resources for this model is 2GB Memory and 1 CPUs.
• If you are on x86-64/AMD64, your CPU must support AVX at the minimum.

• Deploy from Quay
• Deploy on Red Hat OpenShift
• Deploy on Kubernetes
• Run Locally

To run the docker image, which automatically starts the model serving API, run:

$ docker run -it -p 5000:5000 quay.io/codait/max-audio-sample-generator

This will pull a pre-built image from the Quay.io container registry (or use an existing image if already cached locally) and run it. If you'd rather checkout and build the model locally you can follow the run locally steps below.

You can deploy the model-serving microservice on Red Hat OpenShift by following the instructions for the OpenShift web console or the OpenShift Container Platform CLI in this tutorial, specifying quay.io/codait/max-audio-sample-generator as the image name.

You can also deploy the model on Kubernetes using the latest docker image on Quay.

On your Kubernetes cluster, run the following commands:

$ kubectl apply -f https://github.com/IBM/MAX-Audio-Sample-Generator/raw/master/max-audio-sample-generator.yaml

The model will be available internally at port 5000, but can also be accessed externally through the NodePort.

A more elaborate tutorial on how to deploy this MAX model to production on IBM Cloud can be found here.

1. Build the Model
2. Deploy the Model
3. Use the Model
4. Development
5. Clean Up

Clone this repository locally. In a terminal, run the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/IBM/MAX-Audio-Sample-Generator.git

Change directory into the repository base folder:

$ cd MAX-Audio-Sample-Generator

To build the docker image locally, run:

$ docker build -t max-audio-sample-generator .

All required model assets will be downloaded during the build process. Note the model files for all audio types are extremely large and the download will take a while. Note that currently this docker image is CPU only (we will add support for GPU images later).

To run the docker image, which automatically starts the model serving API, run:

$ docker run -it -p 5000:5000 max-audio-sample-generator

The API server automatically generates an interactive Swagger documentation page. Go to http://localhost:5000 to load it. From there you can explore the API and also create test requests. Use the model/predict endpoint to generate an audio clip from one of the provided models, which can then be played in the Swagger UI.

You can also test it on the command line. The model/predict endpoint returns a bytestream of the audio, which you can then direct into a file using >; for example:

 $ curl -X GET 'http://localhost:5000/model/predict' -H 'accept: audio/wav' > result.wav

This will save the generated wav file in the current directory.

You can generate samples for different classes of audio by setting the model request parameter to one of: up, down, left, right, stop, go or lofi-instrumentals (the default). For example to generate a sample of the word stop:

$ curl -X GET 'http://localhost:5000/model/predict?model=stop' -H 'accept: audio/wav' > stop.wav

To run the Flask API app in debug mode, edit config.py to set DEBUG = True under the application settings. You will then need to rebuild the docker image (see step 1).

To stop the Docker container, type CTRL + C in your terminal.

If you are interested in contributing to the Model Asset Exchange project or have any queries, please follow the instructions here.