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Relational Synthesis: Structure-Mediated Concatenative Synthesis for Foley and Retrieval-Augmented Audio Generation
We ask: given a retrieved source audio $S$ and a separate reference audio $R$, can we synthesize novel audio $Y$ out of this pair $(S,R)$ such that $Y$ remains acoustically consistent with $S$, while not persistently copying segments of $S$ or $R$? The first clause is a well-known goal in Foley audio production, and th …