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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

Over the recent years, various deep learning-based methods were proposed for extracting a fixed-dimensional embedding vector from speech signals. Although the deep learning-based embedding extraction methods have shown good performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Woo Hyun Kang , Jahangir Alam , Abderrahim Fathan

The recent emergence of machine-learning based generative models for speech suggests a significant reduction in bit rate for speech codecs is possible. However, the performance of generative models deteriorates significantly with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-22 W. Bastiaan Kleijn , Andrew Storus , Michael Chinen , Tom Denton , Felicia S. C. Lim , Alejandro Luebs , Jan Skoglund , Hengchin Yeh

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

Voice cloning is a highly desired feature for personalized speech interfaces. Neural network based speech synthesis has been shown to generate high quality speech for a large number of speakers. In this paper, we introduce a neural voice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Sercan O. Arik , Jitong Chen , Kainan Peng , Wei Ping , Yanqi Zhou

Semantic information refers to the meaning conveyed through words, phrases, and contextual relationships within a given linguistic structure. Humans can leverage semantic information, such as familiar linguistic patterns and contextual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Jixun Yao , Hexin Liu , Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , EngSiong Chng , Lei Xie

Attempts to develop speech enhancement algorithms with improved speech intelligibility for cochlear implant (CI) users have met with limited success. To improve speech enhancement methods for CI users, we propose to perform speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Nursadul Mamun , Soheil Khorram , John H. L. Hansen

Deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement ordinarily requires clean speech signals as the training target. However, collecting clean signals is very costly because they must be recorded in a studio. This requirement currently…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Takuya Fujimura , Yuma Koizumi , Kohei Yatabe , Ryoichi Miyazaki

In this work, we investigate application of generative speech enhancement to improve the robustness of ASR models in noisy and reverberant conditions. We employ a recently-proposed speech enhancement model based on Schr\"odinger bridge,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Rauf Nasretdinov , Roman Korostik , Ante Jukić

Discretized representations of speech signals are efficient alternatives to continuous features for various speech applications, including automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech language models. However, these representations, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Takanori Ashihara , Shota Horiguchi , Kohei Matsuura , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix

For enhancement of noisy speech, a method of threshold determination based on modeling of Teager energy (TE) operated perceptual wavelet packet (PWP) coefficients of the noisy speech by exponential distribution is presented. A custom…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-19 Md Tauhidul Islam , Celia Shahnaz , Wei-Ping Zhu , M. Omair Ahmad

Modern speech enhancement (SE) networks typically implement noise suppression through time-frequency masking, latent representation masking, or discriminative signal prediction. In contrast, some recent works explore SE via generative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Bryce Irvin , Marko Stamenovic , Mikolaj Kegler , Li-Chia Yang

One persistent challenge in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is the ubiquitous environmental noise, which frequently results in deteriorating SER performance in practice. In this paper, we introduce a Two-level Refinement Network, dubbed…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chengxin Chen , Pengyuan Zhang

Voice cloning is the task of learning to synthesize the voice of an unseen speaker from a few samples. While current voice cloning methods achieve promising results in Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis for a new voice, these approaches lack…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Paarth Neekhara , Shehzeen Hussain , Shlomo Dubnov , Farinaz Koushanfar , Julian McAuley

Neural network-based vocoders have recently demonstrated the powerful ability to synthesize high-quality speech. These models usually generate samples by conditioning on spectral features, such as Mel-spectrogram and fundamental frequency,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Yunchao He , Yujun Wang

Inspired by recent work in meta-learning and generative teaching networks, we propose a framework called Generative Conversational Networks, in which conversational agents learn to generate their own labelled training data (given some seed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Alexandros Papangelis , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Aishwarya Padmakumar , Seokhwan Kim , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Speech enhancement (SE) based on diffusion probabilistic models has exhibited impressive performance, while requiring a relatively high number of function evaluations (NFE). Recently, SE based on flow matching has been proposed, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Seonggyu Lee , Sein Cheong , Sangwook Han , Kihyuk Kim , Jong Won Shin

We explore the possibility of leveraging accelerometer data to perform speech enhancement in very noisy conditions. Although it is possible to only partially reconstruct user's speech from the accelerometer, the latter provides a strong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Marco Tagliasacchi , Yunpeng Li , Karolis Misiunas , Dominik Roblek

Recently, deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement (SE) systems have been used with great success. During training, such systems require clean speech data - ideally, in large quantity with a variety of acoustic conditions, many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-27 Koichi Saito , Stefan Uhlich , Giorgio Fabbro , Yuki Mitsufuji

Speech enhancement at extremely low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) condition is a very challenging problem and rarely investigated in previous works. This paper proposes a robust speech enhancement approach (UNetGAN) based on U-Net and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Xiang Hao , Xiangdong Su , Zhiyu Wang , Hui Zhang , Batushiren