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Enhancing noisy speech is an important task to restore its quality and to improve its intelligibility. In traditional non-machine-learning (ML) based approaches the parameters required for noise reduction are estimated blindly from the…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Robert Rehr , Timo Gerkmann

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

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

Both reverberation and additive noises degrade the speech quality and intelligibility. Weighted prediction error (WPE) method performs well on the dereverberation but with limitations. First, WPE doesn't consider the influence of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Hao Li , Xueliang Zhang , Hui Zhang , Guanglai Gao

The goal of speech enhancement (SE) is to eliminate the background interference from the noisy speech signal. Generative models such as diffusion models (DM) have been applied to the task of SE because of better generalization in unseen…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wen Wang , Dongchao Yang , Qichen Ye , Bowen Cao , Yuexian Zou

This paper focuses on leveraging deep representation learning (DRL) for speech enhancement (SE). In general, the performance of the deep neural network (DNN) is heavily dependent on the learning of data representation. However, the DRL's…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-28 Yang Xiang , Jesper Lisby Højvang , Morten Højfeldt Rasmussen , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

The intelligibility of speech severely degrades in the presence of environmental noise and reverberation. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning based system for modifying the speech signal to increase its intelligibility under the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Haoyu Li , Junichi Yamagishi

Distant speech recognition is a challenge, particularly due to the corruption of speech signals by reverberation caused by large distances between the speaker and microphone. In order to cope with a wide range of reverberations in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Jeehye Lee , Myungin Lee , Joon-Hyuk Chang

Compensation for channel mismatch and noise interference is essential for robust automatic speech recognition. Enhanced speech has been introduced into the multi-condition training of acoustic models to improve their generalization ability.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Hung-Shin Lee , Pin-Yuan Chen , Yao-Fei Cheng , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

Distributed microphone array (DMA) is a promising next-generation platform for speech interaction, where speech enhancement (SE) is still required to improve the speech quality in noisy cases. Existing SE methods usually first gather raw…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chengqian Jiang , Jie Zhang , Haoyin Yan

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Jen-Cheng Hou , Syu-Siang Wang , Ying-Hui Lai , Yu Tsao , Hsiu-Wen Chang , Hsin-Min Wang

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Jen-Cheng Hou , Syu-Siang Wang , Ying-Hui Lai , Yu Tsao , Hsiu-Wen Chang , Hsin-Min Wang

The deep learning-based speech enhancement (SE) methods always take the clean speech's waveform or time-frequency spectrum feature as the learning target, and train the deep neural network (DNN) by reducing the error loss between the DNN's…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-02 Yuewei Zhang , Huanbin Zou , Jie Zhu

Recent advancements in speaker verification techniques show promise, but their performance often deteriorates significantly in challenging acoustic environments. Although speech enhancement methods can improve perceived audio quality, they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Adam Katav , Yair Moshe , Israel Cohen

A large and growing amount of speech content in real-life scenarios is being recorded on consumer-grade devices in uncontrolled environments, resulting in degraded speech quality. Transforming such low-quality device-degraded speech into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Haoyu Li , Junichi Yamagishi

In this paper, we address the generalization of deep neural network (DNN) based speech enhancement to unseen noise conditions for the case that training data is limited in size and diversity. To gain more insights, we analyze the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Robert Rehr , Timo Gerkmann

This paper addresses unsupervised diffusion-based single-channel speech enhancement (SE). Prior work in this direction combines a score-based diffusion model trained on clean speech with a Gaussian noise model whose covariance is structured…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jean-Eudes Ayilo , Mostafa Sadeghi , Romain Serizel , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

In recent years, speech enhancement (SE) has achieved impressive progress with the success of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, the DNN approach usually fails to generalize well to unseen environmental noise that is not included in the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Haoyu Li , Junichi Yamagishi

Speaker verification (SV) suffers from unsatisfactory performance in far-field scenarios due to environmental noise andthe adverse impact of room reverberation. This work presents a benchmark of multichannel speech enhancement for…

Multichannel processing is widely used for speech enhancement but several limitations appear when trying to deploy these solutions to the real-world. Distributed sensor arrays that consider several devices with a few microphones is a viable…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Irina Illina , Slim Essid