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Speech enhancement in the time-frequency domain is often performed by estimating a multiplicative mask to extract clean speech. However, most neural network-based methods perform point estimation, i.e., their output consists of a single…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Huajian Fang , Tal Peer , Stefan Wermter , Timo Gerkmann

End-to-end models have achieved significant improvement on automatic speech recognition. One common method to improve performance of these models is expanding the data-space through data augmentation. Meanwhile, human auditory inspired…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Zehai Tu , Jack Deadman , Ning Ma , Jon Barker

We propose a novel Multi-Scale Spectrogram (MSS) modelling approach to synthesise speech with an improved coarse and fine-grained prosody. We present a generic multi-scale spectrogram prediction mechanism where the system first predicts…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Ammar Abbas , Bajibabu Bollepalli , Alexis Moinet , Arnaud Joly , Penny Karanasou , Peter Makarov , Simon Slangens , Sri Karlapati , Thomas Drugman

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is indispensable for diagnosing and planning treatment in various medical conditions due to its ability to produce multi-series images that reveal different tissue characteristics. However, integrating these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Churan Wang , Fei Gao , Lijun Yan , Siwen Wang , Yizhou Yu , Yizhou Wang

Previous speech enhancement methods focus on estimating the short-time spectrum of speech signals due to its short-term stability. However, these methods often only estimate the clean magnitude spectrum and reuse the noisy phase when…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Chuang Geng , Lei Wang

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in end-to-end speech recognition that directly transcribes speech to text without any predefined alignments. One approach is the attention-based encoder-decoder framework that learns a mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Suyoun Kim , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe

A deep neural network solution for time-scale modification (TSM) focused on large stretching factors is proposed, targeting environmental sounds. Traditional TSM artifacts such as transient smearing, loss of presence, and phasiness are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Leonardo Fierro , Alec Wright , Vesa Välimäki , Matti Hämäläinen

Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly impacted the field of speech signal processing, particularly in the analysis and manipulation of complex spectrograms. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Yuying Xie , Zheng-Hua Tan

The performance of single channel source separation algorithms has improved greatly in recent times with the development and deployment of neural networks. However, many such networks continue to operate on the magnitude spectrogram of a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-08 Shrikant Venkataramani , Paris Smaragdis

The traditional adaptive algorithms will face the non-uniqueness problem when dealing with stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation (SAEC). In this paper, we first propose an efficient multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) scheme based on deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Chenggang Zhang , Jinjiang Liu , Xueliang Zhang

We propose Neural-FST Class Language Model (NFCLM) for end-to-end speech recognition, a novel method that combines neural network language models (NNLMs) and finite state transducers (FSTs) in a mathematically consistent framework. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Antoine Bruguier , Duc Le , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Dangna Li , Zhe Liu , Bo Wang , Eun Chang , Fuchun Peng , Ozlem Kalinli , Michael L. Seltzer

The field of speech recognition is in the midst of a paradigm shift: end-to-end neural networks are challenging the dominance of hidden Markov models as a core technology. Using an attention mechanism in a recurrent encoder-decoder…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Tsubasa Ochiai , Shinji Watanabe , Takaaki Hori , John R. Hershey

Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging task that plays a crucial role in natural human-computer interaction. One of the main challenges in SER is data scarcity, i.e., insufficient amounts of carefully labeled data to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Sarala Padi , Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Dinesh Manocha , Ram D. Sriram

We propose a novel training scheme to optimize voice conversion network with a speaker identity loss function. The training scheme not only minimizes frame-level spectral loss, but also speaker identity loss. We introduce a cycle…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Hongqiang Du , Xiaohai Tian , Lei Xie , Haizhou Li

This paper proposes a delayed subband LSTM network for online monaural (single-channel) speech enhancement. The proposed method is developed in the short time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. Online processing requires frame-by-frame signal…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xiaofei Li , Radu Horaud

In recent decades, neural network based methods have significantly improved the performace of speech enhancement. Most of them estimate time-frequency (T-F) representation of target speech directly or indirectly, then resynthesize waveform…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Jingdong Li , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang , Changliang Li

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have recently shown impressive results for difficult generative tasks such as the unconditional and conditional generation of natural images and audio signals. In this work, we extend these models to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Simon Welker , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

Speech enhancement algorithms based on deep learning have been improved in terms of speech intelligibility and perceptual quality greatly. Many methods focus on enhancing the amplitude spectrum while reconstructing speech using the mixture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Qinglong Li , Fei Gao , Haixin Guan , Kaichi Ma

Dysarthria is a neurological disorder that significantly impairs speech intelligibility, often rendering affected individuals unable to communicate effectively. This necessitates the development of robust dysarthric-to-regular speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shoutrik Das , Nishant Singh , Arjun Gangwar , S Umesh

Synthesized speech is common today due to the prevalence of virtual assistants, easy-to-use tools for generating and modifying speech signals, and remote work practices. Synthesized speech can also be used for nefarious purposes, including…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Emily R. Bartusiak , Edward J. Delp