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Packet loss concealment (PLC) is a tool for enhancing speech degradation caused by poor network conditions or underflow/overflow in audio processing pipelines. We propose a real-time recurrent method that leverages previous outputs to…
Neural audio coding has shown very promising results recently in the literature to largely outperform traditional codecs but limited attention has been paid on its error resilience. Neural codecs trained considering only source coding tend…
As deep speech enhancement algorithms have recently demonstrated capabilities greatly surpassing their traditional counterparts for suppressing noise, reverberation and echo, attention is turning to the problem of packet loss concealment…
Error resilient tools like Packet Loss Concealment (PLC) and Forward Error Correction (FEC) are essential to maintain a reliable speech communication for applications like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), where packets are frequently…
The packet loss problem seriously affects the quality of service in Voice over IP (VoIP) sceneries. In this paper, we investigated online receiver-based packet loss concealment which is much more portable and applicable. For ensuring the…
Packet loss is a common and unavoidable problem in voice over internet phone (VoIP) systems. To deal with the problem, we propose a band-split packet loss concealment network (BS-PLCNet). Specifically, we split the full-band signal into…
Audio Packet Loss Concealment (PLC) is the hiding of gaps in audio streams caused by data transmission failures in packet switched networks. This is a common problem, and of increasing importance as end-to-end VoIP telephony and…
Although wireless and IP-based access to video content gives a new degree of freedom to the viewers, the risk of severe block losses caused by transmission errors is always present. The purpose of this paper is to present a new method for…
Real-time communications in packet-switched networks have become widely used in daily communication, while they inevitably suffer from network delays and data losses in constrained real-time conditions. To solve these problems, audio packet…
Packet loss concealment (PLC) is challenging in concealing missing contents both plausibly and naturally when there are only limited available context to use. Recently deep-learning based PLC algorithms have demonstrated their superiority…
Audio packet loss concealment is the hiding of gaps in VoIP audio streams caused by network packet loss. With the ICASSP 2024 Audio Deep Packet Loss Concealment Grand Challenge, we build on the success of the previous Audio PLC Challenge…
Neural speech codecs have demonstrated their ability to compress high-quality speech and audio by converting them into discrete token representations. Most existing methods utilize Residual Vector Quantization (RVQ) to encode speech into…
With the fast growth of communication networks, the video data transmission from these networks is extremely vulnerable. Error concealment is a technique to estimate the damaged data by employing the correctly received data at the decoder.…
We propose a novel neural waveform compression method to catalyze emerging speech semantic communications. By introducing nonlinear transform and variational modeling, we effectively capture the dependencies within speech frames and…
Phase change memory (PCM) has recently emerged as a promising technology to meet the fast growing demand for large capacity memory in computer systems, replacing DRAM that is impeded by physical limitations. Multi-level cell (MLC) PCM…
This paper introduces a real-time time-domain packet loss concealment (PLC) neural-network (tPLCnet). It efficiently predicts lost frames from a short context buffer in a sequence-to-one (seq2one) fashion. Because of its seq2one structure,…
The conversational quality of voice over IP (VoIP) depends on packet-loss rates, burstiness of packet loss, and delays (or latencies). The benefits for conversational voice quality of erasure coding attributable to its reduction in packet…
In order to efficiently transmit and store speech signals, speech codecs create a minimally redundant representation of the input signal which is then decoded at the receiver with the best possible perceptual quality. In this work we…
Packet loss is a common problem in data transmission, including speech data transmission. This may affect a wide range of applications that stream audio data, like streaming applications or speech emotion recognition (SER). Packet Loss…
The quality of speech codecs deteriorates at low bitrates due to high quantization noise. A post-filter is generally employed to enhance the quality of the coded speech. In this paper, a data-driven post-filter relying on masking in the…