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Enhancing speech signal quality in adverse acoustic environments is a persistent challenge in speech processing. Existing deep learning based enhancement methods often struggle to effectively remove background noise and reverberation in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Heming Wang , Meng Yu , Hao Zhang , Chunlei Zhang , Zhongweiyang Xu , Muqiao Yang , Yixuan Zhang , Dong Yu

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have recently been shown to be efficient for speech enhancement. However, most, if not all, existing speech enhancement GANs (SEGAN) make use of a single generator to perform one-stage enhancement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Huy Phan , Ian V. McLoughlin , Lam Pham , Oliver Y. Chén , Philipp Koch , Maarten De Vos , Alfred Mertins

We propose a new framework to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in resource-scarce environments using a generative adversarial network (GAN) operating on acoustic input features. The GAN is used to enhance the features of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Walter Heymans , Marelie H. Davel , Charl van Heerden

Since its inception, the field of deep speech enhancement has been dominated by predictive (discriminative) approaches, such as spectral mapping or masking. Recently, however, novel generative approaches have been applied to speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Danilo de Oliveira , Julius Richter , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

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

Deep learning has revolutionised synthetic speech quality. However, it has thus far delivered little value to the speech science community. The new methods do not meet the controllability demands that practitioners in this area require…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Gustavo Teodoro Döhler Beck , Ulme Wennberg , Zofia Malisz , Gustav Eje Henter

In this paper, we propose the coarse-to-fine optimization for the task of speech enhancement. Cosine similarity loss [1] has proven to be an effective metric to measure similarity of speech signals. However, due to the large variance of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Jian Yao , Ahmad Al-Dahle

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

This article presents a novel approach for learning domain-invariant speaker embeddings using Generative Adversarial Networks. The main idea is to confuse a domain discriminator so that is can't tell if embeddings are from the source or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Gautam Bhattacharya , Joao Monteiro , Jahangir Alam , Patrick Kenny

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 proposes SEFGAN, a Deep Neural Network (DNN) combining maximum likelihood training and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for efficient speech enhancement (SE). For this, a DNN is trained to synthesize the enhanced speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Martin Strauss , Nicola Pia , Nagashree K. S. Rao , Bernd Edler

Classical parametric speech coding techniques provide a compact representation for speech signals. This affords a very low transmission rate but with a reduced perceptual quality of the reconstructed signals. Recently, autoregressive deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Ahmed Mustafa , Arijit Biswas , Christian Bergler , Julia Schottenhamml , Andreas Maier

Neural network-based methods have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art results on image synthesis and super-resolution tasks, in particular by using variants of generative adversarial networks (GANs) with supervised feature losses.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Sung Kim , Visvesh Sathe

In recent years, impressive progress has been made in the design of implicit probabilistic models via Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) and its extension, the Conditional GAN (CGAN). Excellent solutions have been demonstrated mostly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Karan Aggarwal , Matthieu Kirchmeyer , Pranjul Yadav , S. Sathiya Keerthi , Patrick Gallinari

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become exceedingly popular in a wide range of data-driven research fields, due in part to their success in image generation. Their ability to generate new samples, often from only a small amount…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Thomas Wiest , Nicholas Cummins , Alice Baird , Simone Hantke , Judith Dineley , Björn Schuller

The optimization of a wavelet-based algorithm to improve speech intelligibility along with the full data set and results are reported. The discrete-time speech signal is split into frequency sub-bands via a multi-level discrete wavelet…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Tianqu Kang , Anh-Dung Dinh , Binghong Wang , Tianyuan Du , Yijia Chen , Kevin Chau

The prevailing method for neural speech enhancement predominantly utilizes fully-supervised deep learning with simulated pairs of far-field noisy-reverberant speech and clean speech. Nonetheless, these models frequently demonstrate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Tong Lei , Qinwen Hu , Ziyao Lin , Andong Li , Rilin Chen , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Jing Lu

Dysarthria is a motor speech impairment affecting millions of people. Dysarthric speech can be far less intelligible than those of non-dysarthric speakers, causing significant communication difficulties. The goal of our work is to develop a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Seung Hee Yang , Minhwa Chung

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

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