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We present a new method to capture the acoustic characteristics of real-world rooms using commodity devices, and use the captured characteristics to generate similar sounding sources with virtual models. Given the captured audio and an…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Zhenyu Tang , Nicholas J. Bryan , Dingzeyu Li , Timothy R. Langlois , Dinesh Manocha

Inspired by recent developments in neural speech coding and diffusion-based language modeling, we tackle speech enhancement by modeling the conditional distribution of clean speech codes given noisy speech codes using absorbing discrete…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Philippe Gonzalez

In this paper, we present a causal speech signal improvement system that is designed to handle different types of distortions. The method is based on a generative diffusion model which has been shown to work well in scenarios with missing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Bunlong Lay , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

Replay speech attacks pose a significant threat to voice-controlled systems, especially in smart environments where voice assistants are widely deployed. While multi-channel audio offers spatial cues that can enhance replay detection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Michael Neri , Tuomas Virtanen

Eliminating the negative effect of non-stationary environmental noise is a long-standing research topic for automatic speech recognition that stills remains an important challenge. Data-driven supervised approaches, including ones based on…

In automatic speech recognition, often little training data is available for specific challenging tasks, but training of state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition systems requires large amounts of annotated speech. To address this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Michael Gref , Christoph Schmidt , Sven Behnke , Joachim Köhler

While Transformer has become the de-facto standard for speech, modeling upon the fine-grained frame-level features remains an open challenge of capturing long-distance dependencies and distributing the attention weights. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Chen Xu , Yuhao Zhang , Chengbo Jiao , Xiaoqian Liu , Chi Hu , Xin Zeng , Tong Xiao , Anxiang Ma , Huizhen Wang , JingBo Zhu

This paper introduces a new training strategy to improve speech dereverberation systems using minimal acoustic information and reverberant (wet) speech. Most existing algorithms rely on paired dry/wet data, which is difficult to obtain, or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Louis Bahrman , Mathieu Fontaine , Gael Richard

Diffusion-based generative models have recently achieved remarkable results in speech and vocal enhancement due to their ability to model complex speech data distributions. While these models generalize well to unseen acoustic environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Yudong Yang , Zhan Liu , Wenyi Yu , Guangzhi Sun , Qiuqiang Kong , Chao Zhang

In a noisy environment, a lossy speech signal can be automatically restored by a listener if he/she knows the language well. That is, with the built-in knowledge of a "language model", a listener may effectively suppress noise interference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Chien-Feng Liao , Yu Tsao , Xugang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

Contemporary speech enhancement predominantly relies on audio transforms that are trained to reconstruct a clean speech waveform. The development of high-performing neural network sound recognition systems has raised the possibility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mark R. Saddler , Andrew Francl , Jenelle Feather , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Josh H. McDermott

In this paper, we investigate how to learn rich and robust feature representations for audio classification from visual data and acoustic images, a novel audio data modality. Former models learn audio representations from raw signals or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Andrés F. Pérez , Valentina Sanguineti , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino

Learning-based methods have become ubiquitous in speaker localization. Existing systems rely on simulated training sets for the lack of sufficiently large, diverse and annotated real datasets. Most room acoustics simulators used for this…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Prerak Srivastava , Antoine Deleforge , Archontis Politis , Emmanuel Vincent

This paper introduces a novel data-driven strategy for synthesizing gramophone noise audio textures. A diffusion probabilistic model is applied to generate highly realistic quasiperiodic noises. The proposed model is designed to generate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Eloi Moliner , Vesa Välimäki

In this paper, we propose to utilise diffusion models for data augmentation in speech emotion recognition (SER). In particular, we present an effective approach to utilise improved denoising diffusion probabilistic models (IDDPM) to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Ibrahim Malik , Siddique Latif , Raja Jurdak , Björn Schuller

Accurately interpreting cardiac auscultation signals plays a crucial role in diagnosing and managing cardiovascular diseases. However, the paucity of labelled data inhibits classification models' training. Researchers have turned to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Leigh Abbott , Milan Marocchi , Matthew Fynn , Yue Rong , Sven Nordholm

We investigate the impact of more realistic room simulation for training far-field keyword spotting systems without fine-tuning on in-domain data. To this end, we study the impact of incorporating the following factors in the room impulse…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Eric Bezzam , Robin Scheibler , Cyril Cadoux , Thibault Gisselbrecht

In this paper, we propose a deep convolutional neural network-based acoustic word embedding system on code-switching query by example spoken term detection. Different from previous configurations, we combine audio data in two languages for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Murong Ma , Haiwei Wu , Xuyang Wang , Lin Yang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

Data augmentation has proven to be a promising prospect in improving the performance of deep learning models by adding variability to training data. In previous work with developing a noise robust acoustic-to-articulatory speech inversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Yashish M. Siriwardena , Ahmed Adel Attia , Ganesh Sivaraman , Carol Espy-Wilson

Online Speech Enhancement was mainly reserved for predictive models. A key advantage of these models is that for an incoming signal frame from a stream of data, the model is called only once for enhancement. In contrast, generative Speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Bunlong Lay , Rostislav Makarov , Simon Welker , Maris Hillemann , Timo Gerkmann