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In realistic environments, speech is usually interfered by various noise and reverberation, which dramatically degrades the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To alleviate this issue, the commonest way is to use a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Bin Liu , Shuai Nie , Yaping Zhang , Dengfeng Ke , Shan Liang , Wenju Liu1

This paper introduces a new training strategy to improve speech dereverberation systems in an unsupervised manner using only reverberant speech. Most existing algorithms rely on paired dry/reverberant data, which is difficult to obtain. Our…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Louis Bahrman , Mathieu Fontaine , Gaël Richard

This paper introduces a lightweight deep learning model for real-time speech enhancement, designed to operate efficiently on resource-constrained devices. The proposed model leverages a compact architecture that facilitates rapid inference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Shuubham Ojha , Felix Gervits , Carol Espy-Wilson

In this work, we propose a full-band real-time speech enhancement system with GAN-based stochastic regeneration. Predictive models focus on estimating the mean of the target distribution, whereas generative models aim to learn the full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Sanberk Serbest , Tijana Stojkovic , Milos Cernak , Andrew Harper

Nowadays vast amounts of speech data are recorded from low-quality recorder devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, and medium-quality microphones. The objective of this research was to study the automatic generation of high-quality…

Diffusion models have shown promising results in speech enhancement, using a task-adapted diffusion process for the conditional generation of clean speech given a noisy mixture. However, at test time, the neural network used for score…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Bunlong Lay , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

Generative adversarial networks have seen rapid development in recent years and have led to remarkable improvements in generative modelling of images. However, their application in the audio domain has received limited attention, and…

In this paper, in order to further deal with the performance degradation caused by ignoring the phase information in conventional speech enhancement systems, we proposed a temporal dilated convolutional generative adversarial network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Shuaishuai Ye , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

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

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) and generative adversarial networks (GANs) are popular generative models for neural vocoders. The DDPMs and GANs can be characterized by the iterative denoising framework and adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Yuma Koizumi , Kohei Yatabe , Heiga Zen , Michiel Bacchiani

Deep gated convolutional networks have been proved to be very effective in single channel speech separation. However current state-of-the-art framework often considers training the gated convolutional networks in time-frequency (TF) domain.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Ziqiang Shi , Huibin Lin , Liu Liu , Rujie Liu , Shoji Hayakawa , Shouji Harada , Jiqing Han

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 general, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is significantly degraded due to the mismatch between training and test environments. Recently, a deep-learning-based image-to-image translation technique to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-15 Jong-Hyeon Park , Myungwoo Oh , Hyung-Min Park

We propose a method for joint multichannel speech dereverberation with two spatial-aware tasks: direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation and speech separation. The proposed method addresses involved tasks as a sequence to sequence mapping…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Yang Jiao

The prevailing method for neural speech enhancement predominantly utilizes fully-supervised deep learning with simulated pairs of far-field noisy-reverberant speech and clean speech. Nonetheless, these models frequently demonstrate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Tong Lei , Qinwen Hu , Ziyao Lin , Andong Li , Rilin Chen , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Jing Lu

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been studied in text generation to tackle the exposure bias problem. Despite their remarkable development, they adopt autoregressive structures so suffering from high latency in both training and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Da Ren , Yi Cai , Qing Li

Advanced Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are remarkable in generating intelligible audio from a random latent vector. In this paper, we examine the task of recovering the latent vector of both synthesized and real audio. Previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Andrew Keyes , Nicky Bayat , Vahid Reza Khazaie , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

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

Despite successful applications of end-to-end approaches in multi-channel speech recognition, the performance still degrades severely when the speech is corrupted by reverberation. In this paper, we integrate the dereverberation module into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Wangyou Zhang , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

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