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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

In this paper, we present a scheme for extending deep neural network-based multiplicative maskers to deep subband filters for speech restoration in the time-frequency domain. The resulting method can be generically applied to any deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julian Tobergte , Timo Gerkmann

Monaural source separation is important for many real world applications. It is challenging because, with only a single channel of information available, without any constraints, an infinite number of solutions are possible. In this paper,…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Po-Sen Huang , Minje Kim , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Paris Smaragdis

Far-field speech recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions remains a challenging problem despite recent deep learning breakthroughs. This problem is commonly addressed by acquiring a speech signal from multiple microphones and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-17 Zhong Meng , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey , Hakan Erdogan

Acoustic beamformers have been widely used to enhance audio signals. Currently, the best methods are the deep neural network (DNN)-powered variants of the generalized eigenvalue and minimum-variance distortionless response beamformers and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Yuichiro Koyama , Bhiksha Raj

Acoustic beamformers have been widely used to enhance audio signals. The best current methods are DNN-powered variants of the generalized eigenvalue beamformer, and DNN-based filterestimation methods that directly compute beamforming…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yuichiro Koyama , Bhiksha Raj

The most recent deep neural network (DNN) models exhibit impressive denoising performance in the time-frequency (T-F) magnitude domain. However, the phase is also a critical component of the speech signal that is easily overlooked. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Lu Zhang , Mingjiang Wang , Zehua Zhang , Xuyi Zhuang

Deep neural networks (DNN) techniques have become pervasive in domains such as natural language processing and computer vision. They have achieved great success in these domains in task such as machine translation and image generation. Due…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Peter Ochieng

This paper describes multichannel speech enhancement for improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy environments. Recently, the minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming has widely been used because it works…

Beamforming is a signal processing technique. It has been studied in many areas such as radar, sonar, seismology and wireless communications, to name but a few. It can be used for a myriad of purposes, such as detecting the presence of a…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Hidri Adel , Meddeb Souad , Abdulqadir Alaqeeli , Amiri Hamid

Neural beamformers, which integrate both pre-separation and beamforming modules, have demonstrated impressive effectiveness in target speech extraction. Nevertheless, the performance of these beamformers is inherently limited by the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Aoqi Guo , Sichong Qian , Baoxiang Li , Dazhi Gao

Spectral mask estimation using bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM) neural networks has been widely used in various speech enhancement applications, and it has achieved great success when it is applied to multichannel enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-28 Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Szu-Jui Chen , Shinji Watanabe

In this paper, we propose a speech enhancement method us ing dual-path Multi-Channel Linear Prediction (MCLP) filters and multi-norm beamforming. Specifically, the MCLP part in the proposed method is designed with dual-path filters in both…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Chengyuan Qin , Wenmeng Xiong , Jing Zhou , Maoshen Jia , Changchun Bao

Deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement algorithms in microphone arrays have now proven to be efficient solutions to speech understanding and speech recognition in noisy environments. However, in the context of ad-hoc microphone…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Irina Illina , Slim Essid

The key advantage of using multiple microphones for speech enhancement is that spatial filtering can be used to complement the tempo-spectral processing. In a traditional setting, linear spatial filtering (beamforming) and single-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann

We propose a method for channel training and precoding in FDD massive MIMO based on deep neural networks (DNNs), exploiting Downlink (DL) channel covariance knowledge. The DNN is optimized to maximize the DL multi-user sum-rate, by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yi Song , Tianyu Yang , Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Giuseppe Caire

We propose an end-to-end speech enhancement method with trainable time-frequency~(T-F) transform based on invertible deep neural network~(DNN). The resent development of speech enhancement is brought by using DNN. The ordinary DNN-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Daiki Takeuchi , Kohei Yatabe , Yuma Koizumi , Yasuhiro Oikawa , Noboru Harada

Time-frequency masking or spectrum prediction computed via short symmetric windows are commonly used in low-latency deep neural network (DNN) based source separation. In this paper, we propose the usage of an asymmetric analysis-synthesis…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Shanshan Wang , Gaurav Naithani , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

Signal extraction from a single-channel mixture with additional undesired signals is most commonly performed using time-frequency (TF) masks. Typically, the mask is estimated with a deep neural network (DNN), and element-wise applied to the…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Wolfgang Mack , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Speech separation algorithms are often used to separate the target speech from other interfering sources. However, purely neural network based speech separation systems often cause nonlinear distortion that is harmful for automatic speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Zhuohuang Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Dong Yu