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We present a method to remove unknown convolutive noise introduced to speech by reverberations of recording environments, utilizing some amount of training speech data from the reverberant environment, and any available non-reverberant…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Samik Sadhu , Hynek Hermansky

Distant speech recognition is a challenge, particularly due to the corruption of speech signals by reverberation caused by large distances between the speaker and microphone. In order to cope with a wide range of reverberations in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Jeehye Lee , Myungin Lee , Joon-Hyuk Chang

In this work, we build upon our previous publication and use diffusion-based generative models for speech enhancement. We present a detailed overview of the diffusion process that is based on a stochastic differential equation and delve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Bunlong Lay , Timo Gerkmann

Speech separation models are used for isolating individual speakers in many speech processing applications. Deep learning models have been shown to lead to state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on a number of speech separation benchmarks. One…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-13 William Ravenscroft , Stefan Goetze , Thomas Hain

Speech derverberation using a single microphone is addressed in this paper. Motivated by the recent success of the fully convolutional networks (FCN) in many image processing applications, we investigate their applicability to enhance the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-05 Ori Ernst , Shlomo E. Chazan , Sharon Gannot , Jacob Goldberger

In real life, room effect, also known as room reverberation, and the present background noise degrade the quality of speech. Recently, deep learning-based speech enhancement approaches have shown a lot of promise and surpassed traditional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Jean-Marc Valin , Ritwik Giri , Shrikant Venkataramani , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

We propose an independence-based joint dereverberation and separation method with a neural source model. We introduce a neural network in the framework of time-decorrelation iterative source steering, which is an extension of independent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Kohei Saijo , Robin Scheibler

The conversion from text to speech relies on the accurate mapping from linguistic to acoustic symbol sequences, for which current practice employs recurrent statistical models like recurrent neural networks. Despite the good performance of…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Santiago Pascual , Antonio Bonafonte , Joan Serrà

Speech dereverberation is often an important requirement in robust speech processing tasks. Supervised deep learning (DL) models give state-of-the-art performance for single-channel speech dereverberation. Temporal convolutional networks…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-04 William Ravenscroft , Stefan Goetze , Thomas Hain

Automatic speech recognition in reverberant conditions is a challenging task as the long-term envelopes of the reverberant speech are temporally smeared. In this paper, we propose a neural model for enhancement of sub-band temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Anurenjan Purushothaman , Anirudh Sreeram , Rohit Kumar , Sriram Ganapathy

Reverberation, which is generally caused by sound reflections from walls, ceilings, and floors, can result in severe performance degradation of acoustic applications. Due to a complicated combination of attenuation and time-delay effects,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Wei-Jen Lee , Syu-Siang Wang , Fei Chen , Xugang Lu , Shao-Yi Chien , Yu Tsao

Background noise, interfering speech and room reverberation frequently distort target speech in real listening environments. In this study, we address joint speech separation and dereverberation, which aims to separate target speech from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Ke Tan , Yong Xu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Meng Yu , Dong Yu

Reverberation is damaging to both the quality and the intelligibility of a speech signal. We propose a novel single-channel method of dereverberation based on a linear filter in the Short Time Fourier Transform domain. Each enhanced frame…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Richard Stanton , Mike Brookes

Diffusion models have been shown to achieve natural-sounding enhancement of speech degraded by noise or reverberation. However, their simultaneous denoising and dereverberation capability has so far not been studied much, although this is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Adrian Meise , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Informed speaker extraction aims to extract a target speech signal from a mixture of sources given prior knowledge about the desired speaker. Recent deep learning-based methods leverage a speaker discriminative model that maps a reference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Mohamed Elminshawi , Wolfgang Mack , Emanuël A. P. Habets

We propose an end-to-end model based on convolutional and recurrent neural networks for speech enhancement. Our model is purely data-driven and does not make any assumptions about the type or the stationarity of the noise. In contrast to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Han Zhao , Shuayb Zarar , Ivan Tashev , Chin-Hui Lee

This paper proposes a deep speech enhancement method which exploits the high potential of residual connections in a wide neural network architecture, a topology known as Wide Residual Network. This is supported on single dimensional…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Dayana Ribas , Jorge Llombart , Antonio Miguel , Luis Vicente

We propose a novel method for generating scene-aware training data for far-field automatic speech recognition. We use a deep learning-based estimator to non-intrusively compute the sub-band reverberation time of an environment from its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Zhenyu Tang , Dinesh Manocha

Deep neural networks have shown recent promise in many language-related tasks such as the modeling of conversations. We extend RNN-based sequence to sequence models to capture the long range discourse across many turns of conversation. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-18 John M. Pierre , Mark Butler , Jacob Portnoff , Luis Aguilar

In this paper, we propose a single-channel speech dereverberation system (DeReGAT) based on convolutional, bidirectional long short-term memory and deep feed-forward neural network (CBLDNN) with generative adversarial training (GAT). In…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Chenxing Li , Tieqiang Wang , Shuang Xu , Bo Xu