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Recently, deep neural network (DNN) based time-frequency (T-F) mask estimation has shown remarkable effectiveness for speech enhancement. Typically, a single T-F mask is first estimated based on DNN and then used to mask the spectrogram of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Liangchen Zhou , Wenbin Jiang , Jingyan Xu , Fei Wen , Peilin Liu

Recently, phase processing is attracting increasinginterest in speech enhancement community. Some researchersintegrate phase estimations module into speech enhancementmodels by using complex-valued short-time Fourier transform(STFT)…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Xingjian Du , Mengyao Zhu , Xuan Shi , Xinpeng Zhang , Wen Zhang , Jingdong Chen

With the development of deep learning, speech enhancement has been greatly optimized in terms of speech quality. Previous methods typically focus on the discriminative supervised learning or generative modeling, which tends to introduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Nan Xu , Zhaolong Huang , Xiaonan Zhi

Most neural network speech enhancement models ignore speech production mathematical models by directly mapping Fourier transform spectrums or waveforms. In this work, we propose a neural source filter network for speech enhancement.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Shulin He , Wei Rao , Jinjiang Liu , Jun Chen , Yukai Ju , Xueliang Zhang , Yannan Wang , Shidong Shang

Speech enhancement has recently achieved great success with various deep learning methods. However, most conventional speech enhancement systems are trained with supervised methods that impose two significant challenges. First, a majority…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Viet Anh Trinh , Sebastian Braun

Multi-channel speech enhancement with ad-hoc sensors has been a challenging task. Speech model guided beamforming algorithms are able to recover natural sounding speech, but the speech models tend to be oversimplified or the inference would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Xuesong Yang , Dinei Florencio , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

The joint training of speech enhancement and speaker embedding networks for speaker recognition is widely adopted under noisy acoustic environments. While effective, this paradigm often fails to leverage the generalization and robustness…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Chong-Xin Gan , Peter Bell , Man-Wai Mak , Zhe Li , Zezhong Jin , Zilong Huang , Kong Aik Lee

Deep learning based speech enhancement and source separation systems have recently reached unprecedented levels of quality, to the point that performance is reaching a new ceiling. Most systems rely on estimating the magnitude of a target…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Jonathan Le Roux , Gordon Wichern , Shinji Watanabe , Andy Sarroff , 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

Speech enhancement, particularly denoising, is vital in improving the intelligibility and quality of speech signals for real-world applications, especially in noisy environments. While prior research has introduced various deep learning…

In this contribution, we present a novel online approach to multichannel speech enhancement. The proposed method estimates the enhanced signal through a filter-and-sum framework. More specifically, complex-valued masks are estimated by a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Mhd Modar Halimeh , Walter Kellermann

While machine learning techniques are traditionally resource intensive, we are currently witnessing an increased interest in hardware and energy efficient approaches. This need for resource-efficient machine learning is primarily driven by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Lukas Pfeifenberger , Matthias Zöhrer , Günther Schindler , Wolfgang Roth , Holger Fröning , Franz Pernkopf

This paper introduces an innovative method for reducing the computational complexity of deep neural networks in real-time speech enhancement on resource-constrained devices. The proposed approach utilizes a two-stage processing framework,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Oliver Thiergart , Edwin Mabande

Over the past few years, speech enhancement methods based on deep learning have greatly surpassed traditional methods based on spectral subtraction and spectral estimation. Many of these new techniques operate directly in the the short-time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Jean-Marc Valin , Umut Isik , Neerad Phansalkar , Ritwik Giri , Karim Helwani , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

Compensation for channel mismatch and noise interference is essential for robust automatic speech recognition. Enhanced speech has been introduced into the multi-condition training of acoustic models to improve their generalization ability.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Hung-Shin Lee , Pin-Yuan Chen , Yao-Fei Cheng , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

Supervised masking approaches in the time-frequency domain aim to employ deep neural networks to estimate a multiplicative mask to extract clean speech. This leads to a single estimate for each input without any guarantees or measures of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Huajian Fang , Dennis Becker , Stefan Wermter , Timo Gerkmann

In recent years, the joint training of speech enhancement front-end and automatic speech recognition (ASR) back-end has been widely used to improve the robustness of ASR systems. Traditional joint training methods only use enhanced speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Haoyu Lu , Nan Li , Tongtong Song , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Xiaobao Wang , Shiliang Zhang

A two-step enhancement method based on spectral subtraction and phase spectrum compensation is presented in this paper for noisy speeches in adverse environments involving non-stationary noise and medium to low levels of SNR. The magnitude…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-02 Md Tauhidul Islam , Asaduzzaman , Celia Shahnaz , Wei-Ping Zhu , M. Omair Ahmad

This paper proposes a novel approach that uses deep neural networks for classifying imagined speech, significantly increasing the classification accuracy. The proposed approach employs only the EEG channels over specific areas of the brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-24 Jerrin Thomas Panachakel , A. G. Ramakrishnan , A. G. Ramakrishnan

For the difficulty and large computational complexity of modeling more frequency bands, full-band speech enhancement based on deep neural networks is still challenging. Previous studies usually adopt compressed full-band speech features in…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Guochen Yu , Yuansheng Guan , Weixin Meng , Chengshi Zheng , Hui Wang