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Current speech enhancement techniques operate on the spectral domain and/or exploit some higher-level feature. The majority of them tackle a limited number of noise conditions and rely on first-order statistics. To circumvent these issues,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Santiago Pascual , Antonio Bonafonte , Joan Serrà

Speech enhancement at extremely low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) condition is a very challenging problem and rarely investigated in previous works. This paper proposes a robust speech enhancement approach (UNetGAN) based on U-Net and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Xiang Hao , Xiangdong Su , Zhiyu Wang , Hui Zhang , Batushiren

The performance of most speaker diarization systems with x-vector embeddings is both vulnerable to noisy environments and lacks domain robustness. Earlier work on speaker diarization using generative adversarial network (GAN) with an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Monisankha Pal , Manoj Kumar , Raghuveer Peri , Tae Jin Park , So Hyun Kim , Catherine Lord , Somer Bishop , Shrikanth Narayanan

This article presents a novel approach for learning domain-invariant speaker embeddings using Generative Adversarial Networks. The main idea is to confuse a domain discriminator so that is can't tell if embeddings are from the source or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Gautam Bhattacharya , Joao Monteiro , Jahangir Alam , Patrick Kenny

Recent approaches in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis employ neural network strategies to vocode perceptually-informed spectrogram representations directly into listenable waveforms. Such vocoding procedures create a computational bottleneck…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Paarth Neekhara , Chris Donahue , Miller Puckette , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley

We propose a new framework to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in resource-scarce environments using a generative adversarial network (GAN) operating on acoustic input features. The GAN is used to enhance the features of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Walter Heymans , Marelie H. Davel , Charl van Heerden

Popular neural network-based speech enhancement systems operate on the magnitude spectrogram and ignore the phase mismatch between the noisy and clean speech signals. Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) show promise in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Deepak Baby

Besides the well-known classification task, these days neural networks are frequently being applied to generate or transform data, such as images and audio signals. In such tasks, the conventional loss functions like the mean squared error…

I-vector based text-independent speaker verification (SV) systems often have poor performance with short utterances, as the biased phonetic distribution in a short utterance makes the extracted i-vector unreliable. This paper proposes an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-03 Jiacen Zhang , Nakamasa Inoue , Koichi Shinoda

We introduce EffiFusion-GAN (Efficient Fusion Generative Adversarial Network), a lightweight yet powerful model for speech enhancement. The model integrates depthwise separable convolutions within a multi-scale block to capture diverse…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Bin Wen , Tien-Ping Tan

We propose an adversarial learning approach for generating multi-turn dialogue responses. Our proposed framework, hredGAN, is based on conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs). The GAN's generator is a modified hierarchical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Oluwatobi Olabiyi , Alan Salimov , Anish Khazane , Erik T. Mueller

Generating multiple categories of texts is a challenging task and draws more and more attention. Since generative adversarial nets (GANs) have shown competitive results on general text generation, they are extended for category text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Zhiyue Liu , Jiahai Wang , Zhiwei Liang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is a model for data synthesis, which creates plausible data through the competition of generator and discriminator. Although GAN application to image synthesis is extensively studied, it has inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jun-Min Lee , Tae-Bin Ha

It is still a challenging task to learn a neural text generation model under the framework of generative adversarial networks (GANs) since the entire training process is not differentiable. The existing training strategies either suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Liping Yuan , Jiehang Zeng , Xiaoqing Zheng

Soft sensing infers hard-to-measure data through a large number of easily obtainable variables. However, in complex industrial scenarios, the issue of insufficient data volume persists, which diminishes the reliability of soft sensing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zesen Wang , Yonggang Li , Lijuan Lan

Classical parametric speech coding techniques provide a compact representation for speech signals. This affords a very low transmission rate but with a reduced perceptual quality of the reconstructed signals. Recently, autoregressive deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Ahmed Mustafa , Arijit Biswas , Christian Bergler , Julia Schottenhamml , Andreas Maier

This paper presents a novel multi-fake evolutionary generative adversarial network(MFEGAN) for handling imbalance hyperspectral image classification. It is an end-to-end approach in which different generative objective losses are considered…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Tanmoy Dam , Nidhi Swami , Sreenatha G. Anavatti , Hussein A. Abbass

A method for statistical parametric speech synthesis incorporating generative adversarial networks (GANs) is proposed. Although powerful deep neural networks (DNNs) techniques can be applied to artificially synthesize speech waveform, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Softmax GAN is a novel variant of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). The key idea of Softmax GAN is to replace the classification loss in the original GAN with a softmax cross-entropy loss in the sample space of one single batch. In the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Min Lin

Most GAN(Generative Adversarial Network)-based approaches towards high-fidelity waveform generation heavily rely on discriminators to improve their performance. However, GAN methods introduce much uncertainty into the generation process and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shengyuan Xu , Wenxiao Zhao , Jing Guo