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This paper describes an online algorithm for enhancing monaural noisy speech. Firstly, a novel phase-corrected low-delay gammatone filterbank is derived for signal subband decomposition and resynthesis; the subband signals are then analyzed…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Zhangli Chen , Volker Hohmann

Recent interest has developed around the problem of dynamic compressed sensing, or the recovery of time-varying, sparse signals from limited observations. In this paper, we study how the dynamics of recurrent networks, formulated as general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-09 MohammadMehdi Kafashan , Anirban Nandi , ShiNung Ching

In this paper, we investigate a deep learning approach for speech denoising through an efficient ensemble of specialist neural networks. By splitting up the speech denoising task into non-overlapping subproblems and introducing a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim

Studies have shown that in noisy acoustic environments, providing binaural signals to the user of an assistive listening device may improve speech intelligibility and spatial awareness. This paper presents a binaural speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor

Modern neural speech enhancement models usually include various forms of phase information in their training loss terms, either explicitly or implicitly. However, these loss terms are typically designed to reduce the distortion of phase…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Doyeon Kim , Hyewon Han , Hyeon-Kyeong Shin , Soo-Whan Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

Due to the unprecedented breakthroughs brought about by deep learning, speech enhancement (SE) techniques have been developed rapidly and play an important role prior to acoustic modeling to mitigate noise effects on speech. To increase the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Fu-An Chao , Shao-Wei Fan Jiang , Bi-Cheng Yan , Jeih-weih Hung , Berlin Chen

As the cornerstone of other important technologies, such as speech recognition and speech synthesis, speech enhancement is a critical area in audio signal processing. In this paper, a new deep learning structure for speech enhancement is…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Yuzi Yan , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Michael T. Johnson

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

This paper proposes a speech enhancement method which exploits the high potential of residual connections in a Wide Residual Network architecture. This is supported on single dimensional convolutions computed alongside the time domain,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-11 Jorge Llombart , Dayana Ribas , Antonio Miguel , Luis Vicente , Alfonso Ortega , Eduardo Lleida

This paper studies the Speech Enhancement based on Deep Neural Networks. The proposed architecture gradually follows the signal transformation during enhancement by means of a visualization probe at each network block. Alongside the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-10 Jorge Llombart , Dayana Ribas , Antonio Miguel , Luis Vicente , Alfonso Ortega , Eduardo Lleida

This paper introduces a convolutional recurrent network with attention for speech command recognition. Attention models are powerful tools to improve performance on natural language, image captioning and speech tasks. The proposed model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-28 Douglas Coimbra de Andrade , Sabato Leo , Martin Loesener Da Silva Viana , Christoph Bernkopf

Recurrent Neural networks (RNN) have shown promising potential for learning dynamics of sequential data. However, artificial neural networks are known to exhibit poor robustness in presence of input noise, where the sequential architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Arash Amini , Guangyi Liu , Nader Motee

Deep feedforward and recurrent networks have achieved impressive results in many perception and language processing applications. This success is partially attributed to architectural innovations such as convolutional and long short-term…

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Recently, progressive learning has shown its capacity to improve speech quality and speech intelligibility when it is combined with deep neural network (DNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) based monaural speech enhancement algorithms,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Andong Li , Minmin Yuan , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

From hearing aids to augmented and virtual reality devices, binaural speech enhancement algorithms have been established as state-of-the-art techniques to improve speech intelligibility and listening comfort. In this paper, we present an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor

For a speech-enhancement algorithm, it is highly desirable to simultaneously improve perceptual quality and recognition rate. Thanks to computational costs and model complexities, it is challenging to train a model that effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Rasool Fakoor , Xiaodong He , Ivan Tashev , Shuayb Zarar

The decoupling-style concept begins to ignite in the speech enhancement area, which decouples the original complex spectrum estimation task into multiple easier sub-tasks i.e., magnitude-only recovery and the residual complex spectrum…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Guochen Yu , Andong Li , Hui Wang , Yutian Wang , Yuxuan Ke , Chengshi Zheng

Despite the remarkable progress recently made in distant speech recognition, state-of-the-art technology still suffers from a lack of robustness, especially when adverse acoustic conditions characterized by non-stationary noises and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Mirco Ravanelli , Philemon Brakel , Maurizio Omologo , Yoshua Bengio

In real-world reinforcement learning (RL) scenarios, agents often encounter partial observability, where incomplete or noisy information obscures the true state of the environment. Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ashok Arora , Neetesh Kumar

In specific motifs of three recurrently connected neurons with probabilistic response, the spontaneous information flux, defined as the mutual information between subsequent states, has been shown to increase by adding ongoing white noise…

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