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This paper will describe a novel approach to the cocktail party problem that relies on a fully convolutional neural network (FCN) architecture. The FCN takes noisy audio data as input and performs nonlinear, filtering operations to produce…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Frank Longueira , Sam Keene

Cochlear implants(CIs) are arguably the most successful neural implant, having restored hearing to over one million people worldwide. While CI research has focused on modeling the cochlear activations in response to low-level acoustic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Cynthia R. Steinhardt , Menoua Keshishian , Nima Mesgarani , Kim Stachenfeld

Wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) measurement using dry electrodes has a problem with high-intensity noise distortion. Hence, a robust noise reduction method is required. However, overlapping frequency bands of ECG and noise make noise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Takamasa Terada , Masahiro Toyoura

For a speech-enhancement algorithm, it is highly desirable to simultaneously improve perceptual quality and recognition rate. Thanks to computational costs and model complexities, it is challenging to train a model that effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Rasool Fakoor , Xiaodong He , Ivan Tashev , Shuayb Zarar

Estimating time-frequency domain masks for speech enhancement using deep learning approaches has recently become a popular field of research. In this paper, we propose a mask-based speech enhancement framework by using concatenated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Ziyi Xu , Maximilian Strake , Tim Fingscheidt

This paper proposes a Sub-band Convolutional Neural Network for spoken term classification. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven to be very effective in acoustic applications such as spoken term classification, keyword spotting,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Chieh-Chi Kao , Ming Sun , Yixin Gao , Shiv Vitaladevuni , Chao Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a standard component of many current state-of-the-art Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) systems. However, CNNs in LVCSR have not kept pace with recent advances in other domains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Tom Sercu , Christian Puhrsch , Brian Kingsbury , Yann LeCun

Deep learning approaches have been widely used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and they have achieved a significant accuracy improvement. Especially, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been revisited in ASR recently. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Yisen Wang , Xuejiao Deng , Songbai Pu , Zhiheng Huang

This study explores the field of audio classification from raw waveform using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a method that eliminates the need for extracting specialised features in the pre-processing step. Unlike recent trends in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Kazi Nazmul Haque , Rajib Rana , Tasnim Jarin , Bjorn W. Schuller

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been successful in en- hancing noisy speech signals. Enhancement is achieved by learning a nonlinear mapping function from the features of the corrupted speech signal to that of the reference clean speech…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Zhenzhou Wu , Sunil Sivadas , Yong Kiam Tan , Ma Bin , Rick Siow Mong Goh

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

Despite significant efforts over the last few years to build a robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for different acoustic settings, the performance of the current state-of-the-art technologies significantly degrades in noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-17 Salar Jafarlou , Soheil Khorram , Vinay Kothapally , John H. L. Hansen

Speech enhancement aims to improve speech quality and intelligibility, especially in noisy environments where background noise degrades speech signals. Currently, deep learning methods achieve great success in speech enhancement, e.g. the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Changjiang Zhao , Shulin He , Xueliang Zhang

Sound events often occur in unstructured environments where they exhibit wide variations in their frequency content and temporal structure. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are able to extract higher level features that are invariant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Emre Çakır , Giambattista Parascandolo , Toni Heittola , Heikki Huttunen , Tuomas Virtanen

We propose an end-to-end model based on convolutional and recurrent neural networks for speech enhancement. Our model is purely data-driven and does not make any assumptions about the type or the stationarity of the noise. In contrast to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Han Zhao , Shuayb Zarar , Ivan Tashev , Chin-Hui Lee

Deep learning based single-channel speech enhancement tries to train a neural network model for the prediction of clean speech signal. There are a variety of popular network structures for single-channel speech enhancement, such as TCNN,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Xupeng Jia , Dongmei Li

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are more powerful than Deep Neural Networks (DNN), as they are able to better reduce spectral variation in the input signal. This has also been confirmed experimentally, with CNNs showing…

This paper presents an improved deep embedding learning method based on convolutional neural network (CNN) for text-independent speaker verification. Two improvements are proposed for x-vector embedding learning: (1) Multi-scale convolution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Bin Gu , Wu Guo

The human auditory system has the ability to selectively focus on key speech elements in an audio stream while giving secondary attention to less relevant areas such as noise or distortion within the background, dynamically adjusting its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Nursadul Mamun , John H. L. Hansen

The combined electric and acoustic stimulation (EAS) has demonstrated better speech recognition than conventional cochlear implant (CI) and yielded satisfactory performance under quiet conditions. However, when noise signals are involved,…