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The time domain waveform of a speech signal carries all of the auditory information. From the phonological point of view, it little can be said on the basis of the waveform itself. However, past research in mathematics, acoustics, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Urmila Shrawankar , V M Thakare

Environmental sound recordings often contain intelligible speech, raising privacy concerns that limit analysis, sharing and reuse of data. In this paper, we introduce a method that renders speech unintelligible while preserving both the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Modan Tailleur , Mathieu Lagrange , Pierre Aumond , Vincent Tourre

Transformers (Vaswani et al., 2017) have brought a remarkable improvement in the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) systems but they could be surprisingly vulnerable to noise. In this work, we try to investigate how noise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Peyman Passban , Puneeth S. M. Saladi , Qun Liu

A novel approach for speech segmentation is proposed, based on Multilevel Hybrid (mean/min) Filters (MHF) with the following features: An accurate transition location. Good performance in noisy environments (gaussian and impulsive noise).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-04 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy , Francesc Vallverdu-Bayes

In this paper, we suggest a general model for the fixed-valued impulse noise and propose a two-stage method for high density noise suppression while preserving the image details. In the first stage, we apply an iterative impulse detector,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Hossein Hosseini , Farokh Marvasti

Optical phase determination is an important and established tool in diverse fields such as astronomy, biology, or quantum optics. There is increasing interest in using a lower number of total photons. However, different noise sources, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Q. Pears Stefano , A. G. Magnoni , D. Rodrigues , J. Tiffenberg , C. Iemmi

Current approaches in pulse detection use domain transformations so as to concentrate frequency related information that can be distinguishable from noise. In real cases we do not know when the pulse will begin, so we need a time search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jaime Gomez , Ignacio Melgar , Juan Seijas

In the recent years image processing techniques are used as a tool to improve detection and diagnostic capabilities in the medical applications. Medical applications have been so much affected by these techniques which some of them are…

The multichannel Wiener filter (MWF) and its variations have been extensively applied to binaural hearing aids. However, its major drawback is the distortion of the binaural cues of the residual noise, changing the original acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-12 Johnny Werner , Marcio H. Costa

A deep neural network solution for time-scale modification (TSM) focused on large stretching factors is proposed, targeting environmental sounds. Traditional TSM artifacts such as transient smearing, loss of presence, and phasiness are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Leonardo Fierro , Alec Wright , Vesa Välimäki , Matti Hämäläinen

In this paper, we address the problem of multichannel speech enhancement in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. A long short-time memory (LSTM) network takes as input a sequence of STFT coefficients associated with a frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Xiaofei LI , Radu Horaud

The INTERSPEECH 2020 Deep Noise Suppression Challenge is intended to promote collaborative research in real-time single-channel Speech Enhancement aimed to maximize the subjective (perceptual) quality of the enhanced speech. A typical…

This paper proposes a novel Wavelet Packet based feature extraction approach for the task of text independent speaker recognition. The features are extracted by using the combination of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) and Wavelet…

Noise is a significant challenge in imaging. Conventional intensity-based techniques mitigate noise through various filtering methods, but they often require prior knowledge of noise characteristics and struggle, especially under low-light…

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After propagating through a random amplifying medium, a squeezed state commonly shows excess noise above the shot-noise level. Since large noise can significantly reduce the signal-to-noise ratio, it is detrimental for precision…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Dong Li , Song Sun , Yao Yao

A speech enhancement method based on probabilistic geometric approach to spectral subtraction (PGA) performed on short time magnitude spectrum is presented in this paper. A confidence parameter of noise estimation is introduced in the gain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-15 Md Tauhidul Islam , Celia Shahnaz , Wei-Ping Zhu , M. Omair Ahmad

This work investigates how to identify the source of impulsive noise events using a pair of wireless noise sensors. One sensor is placed at a known noise source, and another sensor is placed at the noise receiver. Machine learning models…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Fabian Nemazi , Jon Nordby

Removing background noise from speech audio has been the subject of considerable effort, especially in recent years due to the rise of virtual communication and amateur recordings. Yet background noise is not the only unpleasant disturbance…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Joan Serrà , Santiago Pascual , Jordi Pons , R. Oguz Araz , Davide Scaini

The quality of audio recordings in outdoor environments is often degraded by the presence of wind. Mitigating the impact of wind noise on the perceptual quality of single-channel speech remains a significant challenge due to its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Kuang Yuan , Shuo Han , Swarun Kumar , Bhiksha Raj

Acoustical mismatch among training and testing phases degrades outstandingly speech recognition results. This problem has limited the development of real-world nonspecific applications, as testing conditions are highly variant or even…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Rashmi Makhijani , Urmila Shrawankar , V M Thakare