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Among numerous blind source separation (BSS) methods, convolutive transfer function-based multichannel non-negative matrix factorization (CTF-MNMF) has demonstrated strong performance in highly reverberant environments by modeling…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Xuemai Xie , Xianrui Wang , Liyuan Zhang , Yichen Yang , Shoji Makino

In a multi-channel separation task with multiple speakers, we aim to recover all individual speech signals from the mixture. In contrast to single-channel approaches, which rely on the different spectro-temporal characteristics of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann

Most speech enhancement algorithms make use of the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), which is a simple and flexible time-frequency decomposition that estimates the short-time spectrum of a signal. However, the duration of short STFT…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Scott Wisdom , Thomas Powers , Les Atlas , James Pitton

The short-time Fourier transform (STFT) represents a window of audio samples as a set of complex coefficients. These are advantageously viewed as magnitudes and phases and the overall distribution of phases is very often assumed to be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Stephen D. Voran

In this letter, we propose a novel channel transfer function (CTF) estimation approach for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems in high-mobility scenarios, that leverages the stationary properties of the delay-Doppler…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Yiyan Ma , Bo Ai , Guoyu Ma , Akram Shafie , Qingqing Cheng , Mi Yang , Jingli Li , Xuebo Pang , Jinhong Yuan , Zhangdui Zhong

This paper introduces a new method for multi-channel time domain speech separation in reverberant environments. A fully-convolutional neural network structure has been used to directly separate speech from multiple microphone recordings,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

Time-domain training criteria have proven to be very effective for the separation of single-channel non-reverberant speech mixtures. Likewise, mask-based beamforming has shown impressive performance in multi-channel reverberant speech…

Short-time Fourier transform (STFT) is used as the front end of many popular successful monaural speech separation methods, such as deep clustering (DPCL), permutation invariant training (PIT) and their various variants. Since the frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Ziqiang Shi , Huibin Lin , Liu Liu , Rujie Liu , Jiqing Han

Speech separation with several speakers is a challenging task because of the non-stationarity of the speech and the strong signal similarity between interferent sources. Current state-of-the-art solutions can separate well the different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Irina Illina , Slim Essid

This study investigates phase reconstruction for deep learning based monaural talker-independent speaker separation in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. The key observation is that, for a mixture of two sources, with their…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Ke Tan , DeLiang Wang

Anti-spoofing is the task of speech authentication. That is, identifying genuine human speech compared to spoofed speech. The main focus of this paper is to suggest new representations for genuine and spoofed speech, based on the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Matan Karo , Arie Yeredor , Itshak Lapidot

Recently, we proposed short-time Fourier transform (STFT)-based loss functions for training a neural speech waveform model. In this paper, we generalize the above framework and propose a training scheme for such models based on spectral…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-09 Shinji Takaki , Hirokazu Kameoka , Junichi Yamagishi

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used for speech emotion recognition (SER). In such cases, the short time fourier transform (STFT) spectrogram is the most popular choice for representing speech, which is fed as input to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Shruti Gupta , Md. Shah Fahad , Akshay Deepak

Recent successful applications of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to audio classification and speech recognition have motivated the search for better input representations for more efficient training. Visual displays of an audio…

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This paper presents a novel approach to sound source separation that leverages spatial information obtained during the recording setup. Our method trains a spatial mixing filter using solo passages to capture information about the room…

In this paper, we introduce a spectral-domain inverse filtering approach for single-channel speech de-reverberation using deep convolutional neural network (CNN). The main goal is to better handle realistic reverberant conditions where the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Hanwook Chung , Vikrant Singh Tomar , Benoit Champagne

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 separation refers to extracting each individual speech source in a given mixed signal. Recent advancements in speech separation and ongoing research in this area, have made these approaches as promising techniques for pre-processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , John H. L. Hansen , Dong Yu

This paper proposes a neural network based speech separation method using spatially distributed microphones. Unlike with traditional microphone array settings, neither the number of microphones nor their spatial arrangement is known in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Dongmei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka

This paper proposes a new loss using short-time Fourier transform (STFT) spectra for the aim of training a high-performance neural speech waveform model that predicts raw continuous speech waveform samples directly. Not only amplitude…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-31 Shinji Takaki , Toru Nakashika , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi