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Speech enhancement has recently achieved great success with various deep learning methods. However, most conventional speech enhancement systems are trained with supervised methods that impose two significant challenges. First, a majority…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Viet Anh Trinh , Sebastian Braun

Speech enhancement and speech separation are two related tasks, whose purpose is to extract either one or more target speech signals, respectively, from a mixture of sounds generated by several sources. Traditionally, these tasks have been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Daniel Michelsanti , Zheng-Hua Tan , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Jesper Jensen

This paper proposes a deep speech enhancement method which exploits the high potential of residual connections in a wide neural network architecture, a topology known as Wide Residual Network. This is supported on single dimensional…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Dayana Ribas , Jorge Llombart , Antonio Miguel , Luis Vicente

The Transformer architecture has demonstrated a superior ability compared to recurrent neural networks in many different natural language processing applications. Therefore, our study applies a modified Transformer in a speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Szu-Wei Fu , Chien-Feng Liao , Tsun-An Hsieh , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Syu-Siang Wang , Cheng Yu , Heng-Cheng Kuo , Ryandhimas E. Zezario , You-Jin Li , Shang-Yi Chuang , Yen-Ju Lu , Yu Tsao

Multi-channel acoustic signal processing is a well-established and powerful tool to exploit the spatial diversity between a target signal and non-target or noise sources for signal enhancement. However, the textbook solutions for optimal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Reinhold Haeb-Umbach , Tomohiro Nakatani , Marc Delcroix , Christoph Boeddeker , Tsubasa Ochiai

This paper proposes a deep neural network (DNN)-based multi-channel speech enhancement system in which a DNN is trained to maximize the quality of the enhanced time-domain signal. DNN-based multi-channel speech enhancement is often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Yoshiki Masuyama , Masahito Togami , Tatsuya Komatsu

Data augmentation is conventionally used to inject robustness in Speaker Verification systems. Several recently organized challenges focus on handling novel acoustic environments. Deep learning based speech enhancement is a modern solution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Saurabh Kataria , Phani Sankar Nidadavolu , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak

Recent speech enhancement methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer have been demonstrated to efficaciously capture time-frequency (T-F) information on spectrogram. However, the correlation of each channels of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jizhen Li , Xinmeng Xu , Weiping Tu , Yuhong Yang , Rong Zhu

Far-field speech processing is an important and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose \textit{deep ad-hoc beamforming}, a deep-learning-based multichannel speech enhancement framework based on ad-hoc microphone arrays, to address…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Xiao-Lei Zhang

This study addresses the problem of single-channel Automatic Speech Recognition of a target speaker within an overlap speech scenario. In the proposed method, the hidden representations in the acoustic model are modulated by speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Midia Yousefi , John H. L. Hanse

In general, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is significantly degraded due to the mismatch between training and test environments. Recently, a deep-learning-based image-to-image translation technique to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-15 Jong-Hyeon Park , Myungwoo Oh , Hyung-Min Park

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

Diffusion speech enhancement on discrete audio codec features gain immense attention due to their improved speech component reconstruction capability. However, they usually suffer from high inference computational complexity due to multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Yihui Fu , Tim Fingscheidt

A promising approach for multi-microphone speech separation involves two deep neural networks (DNN), where the predicted target speech from the first DNN is used to compute signal statistics for time-invariant minimum variance…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Multichannel speech enhancement algorithms are essential for improving the intelligibility of speech signals in noisy environments. These algorithms are usually evaluated at the utterance level, but this approach overlooks the disparities…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Nasser-Eddine Monir , Paul Magron , Romain Serizel

In this paper, we present a novel multi-channel speech extraction system to simultaneously extract multiple clean individual sources from a mixture in noisy and reverberant environments. The proposed method is built on an improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

Our objective is an audio-visual model for separating a single speaker from a mixture of sounds such as other speakers and background noise. Moreover, we wish to hear the speaker even when the visual cues are temporarily absent due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Triantafyllos Afouras , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) of overlapped speech remains a highly challenging task to date. To this end, multi-channel microphone array data are widely used in state-of-the-art ASR systems. Motivated by the invariance of visual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Jianwei Yu , Bo Wu , Rongzhi Gu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Yong Xu. Meng Yu , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Speech distortions are a long-standing problem that degrades the performance of supervisely trained speech processing models. It is high time that we enhance the robustness of speech processing models to obtain good performance when…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Kuan Po Huang , Yu-Kuan Fu , Yu Zhang , Hung-yi Lee

While machine learning techniques are traditionally resource intensive, we are currently witnessing an increased interest in hardware and energy efficient approaches. This need for resource-efficient machine learning is primarily driven by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Lukas Pfeifenberger , Matthias Zöhrer , Günther Schindler , Wolfgang Roth , Holger Fröning , Franz Pernkopf