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Improving subjective sound quality of enhanced signals is one of the most important missions in speech enhancement. For evaluating the subjective quality, several methods related to perceptually-motivated objective sound quality assessment…

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Supervised speech enhancement relies on parallel databases of degraded speech signals and their clean reference signals during training. This setting prohibits the use of real-world degraded speech data that may better represent the…

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Accurate Quality of Service (QoS) prediction is essential for enhancing user satisfaction in web recommendation systems, yet existing prediction models often overlook feature noise, focusing predominantly on label noise. In this paper, we…

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Deep Neural Networks(DNN) have excessively advanced the field of computer vision by achieving state of the art performance in various vision tasks. These results are not limited to the field of vision but can also be seen in speech…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Chirag Agarwal , Bo Dong , Dan Schonfeld , Anthony Hoogs

Deep complex convolution recurrent network (DCCRN), which extends CRN with complex structure, has achieved superior performance in MOS evaluation in Interspeech 2020 deep noise suppression challenge (DNS2020). This paper further extends…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Shubo Lv , Yanxin Hu , Shimin Zhang , Lei Xie

For deep learning-based speech enhancement (SE) systems, the training-test acoustic mismatch can cause notable performance degradation. To address the mismatch issue, numerous noise adaptation strategies have been derived. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Chi-Chang Lee , Cheng-Hung Hu , Yu-Chen Lin , Chu-Song Chen , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

The fundamental frequency (F0) represents pitch in speech that determines prosodic characteristics of speech and is needed in various tasks for speech analysis and synthesis. Despite decades of research on this topic, F0 estimation at low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-03 Akihiro Kato , Tomi Kinnunen

Objective speech quality assessment is central to telephony, VoIP, and streaming systems, where large volumes of degraded audio must be monitored and optimized at scale. Classical metrics such as PESQ and POLQA approximate human mean…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Mahathir Monjur , Shahriar Nirjon

Speech-related applications deliver inferior performance in complex noise environments. Therefore, this study primarily addresses this problem by introducing speech-enhancement (SE) systems based on deep neural networks (DNNs) applied to a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Syu-Siang Wang , Yu-You Liang , Jeih-weih Hung , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang , Shih-Hau Fang

Designing robust algorithms capable of training accurate neural networks on uncurated datasets from the web has been the subject of much research as it reduces the need for time consuming human labor. The focus of many previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Paul Albert , Eric Arazo , Tarun Krishna , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

We introduce SHEET, a multi-purpose open-source toolkit designed to accelerate subjective speech quality assessment (SSQA) research. SHEET stands for the Speech Human Evaluation Estimation Toolkit, which focuses on data-driven deep neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Wen-Chin Huang , Erica Cooper , Tomoki Toda

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…

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In this work, we present an analysis of a DNN-based autoencoder for speech enhancement, dereverberation and denoising. The target application is a robust speaker verification (SV) system. We start our approach by carefully designing a data…

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Modern speech enhancement algorithms achieve remarkable noise suppression by means of large recurrent neural networks (RNNs). However, large RNNs limit practical deployment in hearing aid hardware (HW) form-factors, which are battery…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Igor Fedorov , Marko Stamenovic , Carl Jensen , Li-Chia Yang , Ari Mandell , Yiming Gan , Matthew Mattina , Paul N. Whatmough

Dysarthric speech severity classification is crucial for objective clinical assessment and progress monitoring in individuals with motor speech disorders. Although prior methods have addressed this task, achieving robust generalization in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Arnab Kumar Roy , Hemant Kumar Kathania , Paban Sapkota

Prosody is essential for speech technology, shaping comprehension, naturalness, and expressiveness. However, current text-to-speech (TTS) systems still struggle to accurately capture human-like prosodic variation, in part because existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Cedric Chan , Jianjing Kuang

The ground truth used for training image, video, or speech quality prediction models is based on the Mean Opinion Scores (MOS) obtained from subjective experiments. Usually, it is necessary to conduct multiple experiments, mostly with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Gabriel Mittag , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Thilo Michael , Babak Naderi , Sebastian Möller

Spoken language understanding (SLU) system usually consists of various pipeline components, where each component heavily relies on the results of its upstream ones. For example, Intent detection (ID), and slot filling (SF) require its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Di Wu , Yiren Chen , Liang Ding , Dacheng Tao

Automatic speech quality assessment has become increasingly important as modern speech generation systems continue to advance, while human listening tests remain costly, time-consuming, and difficult to scale. Most existing learning-based…