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We present STFTCodec, a novel spectral-based neural audio codec that efficiently compresses audio using Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT). Unlike waveform-based approaches that require large model capacity and substantial memory…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Tao Feng , Zhiyuan Zhao , Yifan Xie , Yuqi Ye , Xiangyang Luo , Xun Guan , Yu Li

This study investigates phase reconstruction for deep learning based monaural talker-independent speaker separation in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. The key observation is that, for a mixture of two sources, with their…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Ke Tan , DeLiang Wang

Music source separation is the task of extracting an estimate of one or more isolated sources or instruments (for example, drums or vocals) from musical audio. The task of music demixing or unmixing considers the case where the musical…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Sevag Hanssian

Separating vocal elements from musical tracks is a longstanding challenge in audio signal processing. This study tackles the distinct separation of vocal components from musical spectrograms. We employ the Short Time Fourier Transform…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Adam Sorrenti

Deep learning based speech enhancement in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain typically uses a large window length such as 32 ms. A larger window can lead to higher frequency resolution and potentially better enhancement. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Gordon Wichern , Shinji Watanabe , Jonathan Le Roux

In recent years, deep networks have led to dramatic improvements in speech enhancement by framing it as a data-driven pattern recognition problem. In many modern enhancement systems, large amounts of data are used to train a deep network to…

Most speech enhancement algorithms make use of the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), which is a simple and flexible time-frequency decomposition that estimates the short-time spectrum of a signal. However, the duration of short STFT…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Scott Wisdom , Thomas Powers , Les Atlas , James Pitton

This paper proposes a new loss using short-time Fourier transform (STFT) spectra for the aim of training a high-performance neural speech waveform model that predicts raw continuous speech waveform samples directly. Not only amplitude…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-31 Shinji Takaki , Toru Nakashika , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi

Time-frequency representations, such as the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), are fundamental tools for analyzing non-stationary signals. However, their ability to achieve sharp localization in both time and frequency is inherently…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 David Valdivia , Elsa Cazelles , Cédric Févotte

In this report we describe an ongoing line of research for solving single-channel source separation problems. Many monaural signal decomposition techniques proposed in the literature operate on a feature space consisting of a time-frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Pablo Sprechmann , Joan Bruna , Yann LeCun

Most audio processing pipelines involve transformations that act on fixed-dimensional input representations of audio. For example, when using the Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) the DFT size specifies a fixed dimension for the input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Krishna Subramani , Paris Smaragdis

An adaptive time-frequency representation (TFR) with higher energy concentration usually requires higher complexity. Recently, a low-complexity adaptive short-time Fourier transform (ASTFT) based on the chirp rate has been proposed. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Soo-Chang Pei , Shih-Gu Huang

This paper proposes an end-to-end approach for single-channel speaker-independent multi-speaker speech separation, where time-frequency (T-F) masking, the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), and its inverse are represented as layers within…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Jonathan Le Roux , DeLiang Wang , John R. Hershey

Speaker separation refers to isolating speech of interest in a multi-talker environment. Most methods apply real-valued Time-Frequency (T-F) masks to the mixture Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) to reconstruct the clean speech. Hence…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Zhaoheng Ni , Michael I Mandel

Vocal dereverberation remains a challenging task in audio processing, particularly for real-time applications where both accuracy and efficiency are crucial. Traditional deep learning approaches often struggle to suppress reverberation…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Daniel G. Williams

The source separation-based speech enhancement problem with multiple beamforming in reverberant indoor environments is addressed in this paper. We propose that more generic solutions should cope with time-varying dynamic scenarios with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Alejandro Díaz , Diego Pincheira , Rodrigo Mahu , Nestor Becerra Yoma

Music source separation is important for applications such as karaoke and remixing. Much of previous research focuses on estimating short-time Fourier transform (STFT) magnitude and discarding phase information. We observe that, for singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Yixuan Zhang , Yuzhou Liu , DeLiang Wang

The SepFormer architecture shows very good results in speech separation. Like other learned-encoder models, it uses short frames, as they have been shown to obtain better performance in these cases. This results in a large number of frames…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Danilo de Oliveira , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

This work proposes a multichannel speech separation method with narrow-band Conformer (named NBC). The network is trained to learn to automatically exploit narrow-band speech separation information, such as spatial vector clustering of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Changsheng Quan , Xiaofei Li

Audio source separation is usually achieved by estimating the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) magnitude of each source, and then applying a spectrogram inversion algorithm to retrieve time-domain signals. In particular, the multiple…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Paul Magron , Tuomas Virtanen