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We investigate the use of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in speech dereverberation for robust speech recognition. GANs have been recently studied for speech enhancement to remove additive noises, but there still lacks of a work to…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ke Wang , Junbo Zhang , Sining Sun , Yujun Wang , Fei Xiang , Lei Xie

In realistic environments, speech is usually interfered by various noise and reverberation, which dramatically degrades the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To alleviate this issue, the commonest way is to use a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Bin Liu , Shuai Nie , Yaping Zhang , Dengfeng Ke , Shan Liang , Wenju Liu1

In this paper we demonstrate that it is possible to generate more meaningful electroencephalography (EEG) features from raw EEG features using generative adversarial networks (GAN) to improve the performance of EEG based continuous speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed Tewfik

Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown promising performance in generating realistic images. However, they often struggle in learning complex underlying modalities in a given dataset, resulting in poor-quality generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 David Keetae Park , Seungjoo Yoo , Hyojin Bahng , Jaegul Choo , Noseong Park

Several recent work on speech synthesis have employed generative adversarial networks (GANs) to produce raw waveforms. Although such methods improve the sampling efficiency and memory usage, their sample quality has not yet reached that of…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Jungil Kong , Jaehyeon Kim , Jaekyoung Bae

Enhancing speech quality under adverse SNR conditions remains a significant challenge for discriminative deep neural network (DNN)-based approaches. In this work, we propose DisCoGAN, which is a time-frequency-domain generative adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Andreas Brendel

The generative adversarial networks (GANs) have facilitated the development of speech enhancement recently. Nevertheless, the performance advantage is still limited when compared with state-of-the-art models. In this paper, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Renhua Peng , Cunhang Fan , Xiaodong Li

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have succeeded in inducing cross-lingual word embeddings -- maps of matching words across languages -- without supervision. Despite these successes, GANs' performance for the difficult case of distant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Haozhou Wang , James Henderson , Paola Merlo

Generative speech enhancement methods based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models have shown promising results in various speech enhancement tasks. However, their performance in very low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Andreas Brendel

In this paper, we explore machine translation improvement via Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture. We take inspiration from RelGAN, a model for text generation, and NMT-GAN, an adversarial machine translation model, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jay Ahn , Hari Madhu , Viet Nguyen

This paper describes a general, scalable, end-to-end framework that uses the generative adversarial network (GAN) objective to enable robust speech recognition. Encoders trained with the proposed approach enjoy improved invariance by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Anuroop Sriram , Heewoo Jun , Yashesh Gaur , Sanjeev Satheesh

In this paper, in order to further deal with the performance degradation caused by ignoring the phase information in conventional speech enhancement systems, we proposed a temporal dilated convolutional generative adversarial network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Shuaishuai Ye , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

Deep generative models have achieved significant progress in speech synthesis to date, while high-fidelity singing voice synthesis is still an open problem for its long continuous pronunciation, rich high-frequency parts, and strong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-08 Rongjie Huang , Chenye Cui , Feiyang Chen , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Zhou Zhao , Baoxing Huai , Zhefeng Wang

In this paper, we aim at improving the performance of synthesized speech in statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) based on a generative adversarial network (GAN). In particular, we propose a novel architecture combining the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Shan Yang , Lei Xie , Xiao Chen , Xiaoyan Lou , Xuan Zhu , Dongyan Huang , Haizhou Li

Audio signals are sampled at high temporal resolutions, and learning to synthesize audio requires capturing structure across a range of timescales. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have seen wide success at generating images that are…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Chris Donahue , Julian McAuley , Miller Puckette

We introduce EffiFusion-GAN (Efficient Fusion Generative Adversarial Network), a lightweight yet powerful model for speech enhancement. The model integrates depthwise separable convolutions within a multi-scale block to capture diverse…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Bin Wen , Tien-Ping Tan

In this paper we demonstrate spoken speech enhancement using electroencephalography (EEG) signals using a generative adversarial network (GAN) based model, gated recurrent unit (GRU) regression based model, temporal convolutional network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Yan Han , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed H Tewfik

Speech synthesis is used in a wide variety of industries. Nonetheless, it always sounds flat or robotic. The state of the art methods that allow for prosody control are very cumbersome to use and do not allow easy tuning. To tackle some of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Enrique Hortal , Rodrigo Brechard Alarcia

Deep generative models have recently been employed for speech enhancement to generate perceptually valid clean speech on large-scale datasets. Several diffusion models have been proposed, and more recently, a tractable Schr\"odinger Bridge…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Seungu Han , Sungho Lee , Juheon Lee , Kyogu Lee

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have great successes on synthesizing data. However, the existing GANs restrict the discriminator to be a binary classifier, and thus limit their learning capacity for tasks that need to synthesize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Kevin Lin , Dianqi Li , Xiaodong He , Zhengyou Zhang , Ming-Ting Sun