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Deep neural networks (DNN) techniques have become pervasive in domains such as natural language processing and computer vision. They have achieved great success in these domains in task such as machine translation and image generation. Due…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Peter Ochieng

In automatic speech recognition, often little training data is available for specific challenging tasks, but training of state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition systems requires large amounts of annotated speech. To address this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Michael Gref , Christoph Schmidt , Sven Behnke , Joachim Köhler

The past decade has witnessed great progress in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) due to advances in deep learning. The improvements in performance can be attributed to both improved models and large-scale training data. Key to training…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Xiaodong Cui , Wei Zhang , Ulrich Finkler , George Saon , Michael Picheny , David Kung

Enhancing noisy speech is an important task to restore its quality and to improve its intelligibility. In traditional non-machine-learning (ML) based approaches the parameters required for noise reduction are estimated blindly from the…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Robert Rehr , Timo Gerkmann

Contemporary speech enhancement predominantly relies on audio transforms that are trained to reconstruct a clean speech waveform. The development of high-performing neural network sound recognition systems has raised the possibility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mark R. Saddler , Andrew Francl , Jenelle Feather , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Josh H. McDermott

Modern speech enhancement algorithms achieve remarkable noise suppression by means of large recurrent neural networks (RNNs). However, large RNNs limit practical deployment in hearing aid hardware (HW) form-factors, which are battery…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Igor Fedorov , Marko Stamenovic , Carl Jensen , Li-Chia Yang , Ari Mandell , Yiming Gan , Matthew Mattina , Paul N. Whatmough

The paper revives an older approach to acoustic modeling that borrows from n-gram language modeling in an attempt to scale up both the amount of training data and model size (as measured by the number of parameters in the model), to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Ciprian Chelba , Peng Xu , Fernando Pereira , Thomas Richardson

Enhancing speech signal quality in adverse acoustic environments is a persistent challenge in speech processing. Existing deep learning based enhancement methods often struggle to effectively remove background noise and reverberation in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Heming Wang , Meng Yu , Hao Zhang , Chunlei Zhang , Zhongweiyang Xu , Muqiao Yang , Yixuan Zhang , Dong Yu

Recent single-channel speech enhancement methods based on deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable results, but there are still generalization problems in real scenes. Like other data-driven methods, DNN-based speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Lu Zhang , Mingjiang Wang , Andong Li , Zehua Zhang , Xuyi Zhuang

Deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement usually uses a clean speech as a training target. However, it is hard to collect large amounts of clean speech because the recording is very costly. In other words, the performance of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Takuya Fujimura , Tomoki Toda

With the development of deep learning, speech enhancement has been greatly optimized in terms of speech quality. Previous methods typically focus on the discriminative supervised learning or generative modeling, which tends to introduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Nan Xu , Zhaolong Huang , Xiaonan Zhi

Monaural speech enhancement has made dramatic advances since the introduction of deep learning a few years ago. Although enhanced speech has been demonstrated to have better intelligibility and quality for human listeners, feeding it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-14 Peidong Wang , Ke Tan , DeLiang Wang

Most state-of-the-art speech systems are using Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Those systems require a large amount of data to be learned. Hence, learning state-of-the-art frameworks on under-resourced speech languages/problems is a difficult…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Vincent Roger , Jérôme Farinas , Julien Pinquier

In this paper, we explore an improved framework to train a monoaural neural enhancement model for robust speech recognition. The designed training framework extends the existing mixture invariant training criterion to exploit both unpaired…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

Conventional deep neural networks (DNN) for speech acoustic modeling rely on Gaussian mixture models (GMM) and hidden Markov model (HMM) to obtain binary class labels as the targets for DNN training. Subword classes in speech recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Pranay Dighe , Afsaneh Asaei , Herve Bourlard

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention from the research community due to their exceptional performance and generalization capabilities. In this paper, we introduce a novel method for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Egor Lakomkin , Chunyang Wu , Yassir Fathullah , Ozlem Kalinli , Michael L. Seltzer , Christian Fuegen

In this paper, various structures and methods of Deep Artificial Neural Networks (DNN) will be evaluated and compared for the purpose of continuous Persian speech recognition. One of the first models of neural networks used in speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Arash Dehghani , Seyyed Ali Seyyedsalehi

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown significant improvements in recent years for speech enhancement. However, the model complexity and inference time cost of RNNs are much higher than deep feed-forward neural networks (DNNs).…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Cunhang Fan , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen , Leichao Song

Estimating time-frequency domain masks for speech enhancement using deep learning approaches has recently become a popular field of research. In this paper, we propose a mask-based speech enhancement framework by using concatenated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Ziyi Xu , Maximilian Strake , Tim Fingscheidt

Speech enhancement models should meet very low latency requirements typically smaller than 5 ms for hearing assistive devices. While various low-latency techniques have been proposed, comparing these methods in a controlled setup using DNNs…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Haibin Wu , Sebastian Braun