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In this study we present a mixture of deep experts (MoDE) neural-network architecture for single microphone speech enhancement. Our architecture comprises a set of deep neural networks (DNNs), each of which is an 'expert' in a different…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Shlomo E. Chazan , Jacob Goldberger , Sharon Gannot

Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the vocal tract has become an increasingly adopted imaging modality for speech motor studies. Beyond image signals, systematic data loss, noise pollution, and audio file corruption can occur due…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yaxuan Li , Han Jiang , Yifei Ma , Shihua Qin , Jonghye Woo , Fangxu Xing

Use of an autoencoder (AE) as a normal model is a state-of-the-art technique for unsupervised-anomaly detection in sounds (ADS). The AE is trained to minimize the sample mean of the anomaly score of normal sounds in a mini-batch. One…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Yuma Koizumi , Shoichiro Saito , Masataka Yamaguchi , Shin Murata , Noboru Harada

We propose a variational autoencoder (VAE) approach for parameter estimation in nonlinear mixed-effects models based on ordinary differential equations (NLME-ODEs) using longitudinal data from multiple subjects. In moderate dimensions,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-11 Zhe Li , Mélanie Prague , Rodolphe Thiébaut , Quentin Clairon

Both reverberation and additive noises degrade the speech quality and intelligibility. Weighted prediction error (WPE) method performs well on the dereverberation but with limitations. First, WPE doesn't consider the influence of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Hao Li , Xueliang Zhang , Hui Zhang , Guanglai Gao

Recent neural text-to-speech (TTS) models with fine-grained latent features enable precise control of the prosody of synthesized speech. Such models typically incorporate a fine-grained variational autoencoder (VAE) structure, extracting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Guangzhi Sun , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Yuan Cao , Heiga Zen , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Yonghui Wu

While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. Here speech enhancement methods have traditionally allowed improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

New system for i-vector speaker recognition based on variational autoencoder (VAE) is investigated. VAE is a promising approach for developing accurate deep nonlinear generative models of complex data. Experiments show that VAE provides…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Timur Pekhovsky , Maxim Korenevsky

Denoising autoencoders (DAE) are trained to reconstruct their clean inputs with noise injected at the input level, while variational autoencoders (VAE) are trained with noise injected in their stochastic hidden layer, with a regularizer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Sungjin Ahn , Roland Memisevic , Yoshua Bengio

This paper investigates a non-negative matrix factorization (NMF)-based approach to the semi-supervised single-channel speech enhancement problem where only non-stationary additive noise signals are given. The proposed method relies on…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Nikolay Lyubimov , Mikhail Kotov

To cope with reverberation and noise in single channel acoustic scenarios, typical supervised deep neural network~(DNN)-based techniques learn a mapping from reverberant and noisy input features to a user-defined target. Commonly used…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 L. Wang , J. Zhu , I. Kodrasi

Speech enhancement concerns the processes required to remove unwanted background sounds from the target speech to improve its quality and intelligibility. In this paper, a novel approach for single-channel speech enhancement is presented,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Sania Gul , Muhammad Salman Khan , Muhammad Fazeel

Speaker verification (SV) suffers from unsatisfactory performance in far-field scenarios due to environmental noise andthe adverse impact of room reverberation. This work presents a benchmark of multichannel speech enhancement for…

This paper investigates a self-adaptation method for speech enhancement using auxiliary speaker-aware features; we extract a speaker representation used for adaptation directly from the test utterance. Conventional studies of deep neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Yuma Koizumi , Kohei Yatabe , Marc Delcroix , Yoshiki Masuyama , Daiki Takeuchi

Speech enhancement (SE) improves degraded speech's quality, with generative models like flow matching gaining attention for their outstanding perceptual quality. However, the flow-based model requires multiple numbers of function…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Jiahe Wang , Hongyu Wang , Wei Wang , Lei Yang , Chenda Li , Wangyou Zhang , Lufen Tan , Yanmin Qian

Human-robot interaction relies on a noise-robust audio processing module capable of estimating target speech from audio recordings impacted by environmental noise, as well as self-induced noise, so-called ego-noise. While external ambient…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Huajian Fang , Niklas Wittmer , Johannes Twiefel , Stefan Wermter , Timo Gerkmann

While unsupervised variational autoencoders (VAE) have become a powerful tool in neuroimage analysis, their application to supervised learning is under-explored. We aim to close this gap by proposing a unified probabilistic model for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Qingyu Zhao , Ehsan Adeli , Nicolas Honnorat , Tuo Leng , Kilian M. Pohl

Background noise reduces speech intelligibility and quality, making speaker verification (SV) in noisy environments a challenging task. To improve the noise robustness of SV systems, additive noise data augmentation method has been commonly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Wonbin Kim , Hyun-seo Shin , Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Chan-yeong Lim , Ha-Jin Yu

Recent studies have demonstrated that incorporating auxiliary information, such as speaker voiceprint or visual cues, can substantially improve Speech Enhancement (SE) performance. However, single-channel methods often yield suboptimal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Chihyun Liu , Jiaxuan Fan , Mingtung Sun , Michael Anthony , Mingsian R. Bai , Yu Tsao

This paper presents a speech enhancement method, where an adaptive threshold is statistically determined based on Gaussian modeling of Teager energy (TE) operated perceptual wavelet packet (PWP) coefficients of noisy speech. In order to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-07 Md Tauhidul Islam , Celia Shahnaz