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Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) algorithms have a long-term steady role in signal processing, with approaches improving the performance of applications such as automotive hands-free systems, smart home and loudspeaker devices, or web…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Jan Franzen , Ernst Seidel , Tim Fingscheidt

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), noise suppression (NS) and dereverberation (DR) are an integral part of modern full-duplex communication systems. As the demand for teleconferencing systems increases, addressing these tasks is required for…

In this paper, we propose Textual Echo Cancellation (TEC) - a framework for cancelling the text-to-speech (TTS) playback echo from overlapping speech recordings. Such a system can largely improve speech recognition performance and user…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Shaojin Ding , Ye Jia , Ke Hu , Quan Wang

This paper describes aecX team's entry to the ICASSP 2023 acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) challenge. Our system consists of an adaptive filter and a proposed full-band Taylor-style acoustic echo cancellation neural network (TaylorAECNet)…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Weiming Xu , Zhihao Guo

Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is essential for accurate recognition of queries spoken to a smart speaker that is playing out audio. Previous work has shown that a neural AEC model operating on log-mel spectral features (denoted "logmel"…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Sankaran Panchapagesan , Arun Narayanan , Turaj Zakizadeh Shabestary , Shuai Shao , Nathan Howard , Alex Park , James Walker , Alexander Gruenstein

Audio packet loss concealment is the hiding of gaps in VoIP audio streams caused by network packet loss. With the ICASSP 2024 Audio Deep Packet Loss Concealment Grand Challenge, we build on the success of the previous Audio PLC Challenge…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Lorenz Diener , Solomiya Branets , Ando Saabas , Ross Cutler

With recent research advances, deep learning models have become an attractive choice for acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) in real-time teleconferencing applications. Since acoustic echo is one of the major sources of poor audio quality, a…

In this paper a generalized postfilter algorithm design issues are presented. This postfilter is used to jointly suppress late reverberation, residual echo, and background noise. When residual echo and noise are suppressed, the best result…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Urmila Shrawankar , V M Thakare

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) were studied as an alternative to traditional acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) algorithms. The proposed models achieved remarkable performance for the separate tasks of AEC and residual echo…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Ernst Seidel , Jan Franzen , Maximilian Strake , Tim Fingscheidt

The automatic speaker verification spoofing and countermeasures (ASVspoof) challenge series is a community-led initiative which aims to promote the consideration of spoofing and the development of countermeasures. ASVspoof 2021 is the 4th…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Héctor Delgado , Nicholas Evans , Tomi Kinnunen , Kong Aik Lee , Xuechen Liu , Andreas Nautsch , Jose Patino , Md Sahidullah , Massimiliano Todisco , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi

The Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) challenge is designed to foster innovation in the area of noise suppression to achieve superior perceptual speech quality. We recently organized a DNS challenge special session at INTERSPEECH and ICASSP…

We propose a novel neural network-based end-to-end acoustic echo cancellation (E2E-AEC) method capable of streaming inference, which operates effectively without reliance on traditional linear AEC (LAEC) techniques and time delay…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yiheng Jiang , Biao Tian , Haoxu Wang , Shengkui Zhao , Bin Ma , Daren Chen , Xiangang Li

The INTERSPEECH 2020 Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge is intended to promote collaborative research in real-time single-channel Speech Enhancement aimed to maximize the subjective (perceptual) quality of the enhanced speech. A typical…

This paper summarizes the ICASSP 2026 Automatic Song Aesthetics Evaluation (ASAE) Challenge, which focuses on predicting the subjective aesthetic scores of AI-generated songs. The challenge consists of two tracks: Track 1 targets the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Guobin Ma , Yuxuan Xia , Jixun Yao , Huixin Xue , Hexin Liu , Shuai Wang , Hao Liu , Lei Xie

We present a work on low-complexity acoustic scene classification (ASC) with multiple devices, namely the subtask A of Task 1 of the DCASE2021 challenge. This subtask focuses on classifying audio samples of multiple devices with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Yanxiong Li , Wenchang Cao , Wei Xie , Qisheng Huang , Wenfeng Pang , Qianhua He

This paper contains a post-challenge performance analysis on cross-lingual speaker verification of the IDLab submission to the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2021 (VoxSRC-21). We show that current speaker embedding extractors…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Jenthe Thienpondt , Brecht Desplanques , Kris Demuynck

The primary goal of the L3DAS23 Signal Processing Grand Challenge at ICASSP 2023 is to promote and support collaborative research on machine learning for 3D audio signal processing, with a specific emphasis on 3D speech enhancement and 3D…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Christian Marinoni , Riccardo Fosco Gramaccioni , Changan Chen , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

We describe a joint acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) and blind source extraction (BSE) approach for multi-microphone acoustic frontends. The proposed algorithm blindly estimates AEC and beamforming filters by maximizing the statistical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Thomas Haubner , Zbyněk Koldovský , Walter Kellermann

Many speech enhancement methods try to learn the relationship between noisy and clean speech, obtained using an acoustic room simulator. We point out several limitations of enhancement methods relying on clean speech targets; the goal of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Geonmin Kim , Hwaran Lee , Bo-Kyeong Kim , Sang-Hoon Oh , Soo-Young Lee

Building on the deep learning based acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) in the single-loudspeaker (single-channel) and single-microphone setup, this paper investigates multi-channel AEC (MCAEC) and multi-microphone AEC (MMAEC). We train a deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Hao Zhang , DeLiang Wang