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Speech deepfake detection is a well-established research field with different models, datasets, and training strategies. However, the lack of standardized implementations and evaluation protocols limits reproducibility, benchmarking, and…

Speech enhancement is a task to improve the intelligibility and perceptual quality of degraded speech signal. Recently, neural networks based methods have been applied to speech enhancement. However, many neural network based methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Qiuqiang Kong , Haohe Liu , Xingjian Du , Li Chen , Rui Xia , Yuxuan Wang

Speech enhancement attenuates interfering sounds in speech signals but may introduce artifacts that perceivably deteriorate the output signal. We propose a method for controlling the trade-off between the attenuation of the interfering…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Christian Uhle , Matteo Torcoli , Jouni Paulus

What audio embedding approach generalizes best to a wide range of downstream tasks across a variety of everyday domains without fine-tuning? The aim of the HEAR benchmark is to develop a general-purpose audio representation that provides a…

Training personalized speech enhancement models is innately a no-shot learning problem due to privacy constraints and limited access to noise-free speech from the target user. If there is an abundance of unlabeled noisy speech from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Aswin Sivaraman , Sunwoo Kim , Minje Kim

Despite significant progress made in the last decade, deep neural network (DNN) based speech enhancement (SE) still faces the challenge of notable degradation in the quality of recovered speech under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhongshu Hou , Tong Lei , Qinwen Hu , Zhanzhong Cao , Ming Tang , Jing Lu

Extensive studies have shown that deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial and natural noises, yet little is known about model robustness on noises caused by different system implementations. In this paper, we for the first time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yan Wang , Yuhang Li , Ruihao Gong , Aishan Liu , Yanfei Wang , Jian Hu , Yongqiang Yao , Yunchen Zhang , Tianzi Xiao , Fengwei Yu , Xianglong Liu

Single-channel speech enhancement is utilized in various tasks to mitigate the effect of interfering signals. Conventionally, to ensure the speech enhancement performs optimally, the speech enhancement has needed to be tuned for each task.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takafumi Moriya , Takanori Ashihara , Ryo Masumura

As deepfake audio becomes more realistic and diverse, developing generalizable countermeasure systems has become crucial. Existing detection methods primarily depend on XLS-R front-end features to improve generalization. Nonetheless, their…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhe Ye , Xiangui Kang , Jiayi He , Chengxin Chen , Wei Zhu , Kai Wu , Yin Yang , Jiwu Huang

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

Thanks to advancements in deep learning, speech generation systems now power a variety of real-world applications, such as text-to-speech for individuals with speech disorders, voice chatbots in call centers, cross-linguistic speech…

Background noise considerably reduces the accuracy and reliability of speaker verification (SV) systems. These challenges can be addressed using a speech enhancement system as a front-end module. Recently, diffusion probabilistic models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Hyun-seo Shin , Chan-yeong Lim , Ha-Jin Yu

The intelligibility of natural speech is seriously degraded when exposed to adverse noisy environments. In this work, we propose a deep learning-based speech modification method to compensate for the intelligibility loss, with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Haoyu Li , Szu-Wei Fu , Yu Tsao , Junichi Yamagishi

This research presents a novel approach to enhancing automatic speech recognition systems by integrating noise detection capabilities directly into the recognition architecture. Building upon the wav2vec2 framework, the proposed method…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Karamvir Singh

Discrete audio tokens are compact representations that aim to preserve perceptual quality, phonetic content, and speaker characteristics while enabling efficient storage and inference, as well as competitive performance across diverse…

WaveNet is a state-of-the-art text-to-speech vocoder that remains challenging to deploy due to its autoregressive loop. In this work we focus on ways to accelerate the original WaveNet architecture directly, as opposed to modifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Sam Davis , Giuseppe Coccia , Sam Gooch , Julian Mack

We present an end-to-end deep learning approach to denoising speech signals by processing the raw waveform directly. Given input audio containing speech corrupted by an additive background signal, the system aims to produce a processed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-18 Francois G. Germain , Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun

We study speech enhancement using deep learning (DL) for virtual meetings on cellular devices, where transmitted speech has background noise and transmission loss that affects speech quality. Since the Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Hojeong Lee , Minseon Gwak , Kawon Lee , Minjeong Kim , Joseph Konan , Ojas Bhargave

The aim of this project is to implement and design arobust synthetic speech classifier for the IEEE Signal ProcessingCup 2022 challenge. Here, we learn a synthetic speech attributionmodel using the speech generated from various…

The ICASSP 2023 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge is intended to stimulate research in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which is an important area of speech enhancement and is still a top issue in audio communication. This is the fourth…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Ross Cutler , Ando Saabas , Tanel Parnamaa , Marju Purin , Evgenii Indenbom , Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Jegor Gužvin , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun , Robert Aichner