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Speech communication systems are prone to performance degradation in reverberant and noisy acoustic environments. Dereverberation and noise reduction algorithms typically require several model parameters, e.g. the speech, reverberation and…

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This paper presents a speech intelligibility model based on automatic speech recognition (ASR), combining phoneme probabilities from deep neural networks (DNN) and a performance measure that estimates the word error rate from these…

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Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Ante Jukić , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

This work presents a novel back-end framework for speaker verification using graph attention networks. Segment-wise speaker embeddings extracted from multiple crops within an utterance are interpreted as node representations of a graph. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Jee-weon Jung , Hee-Soo Heo , Ha-Jin Yu , Joon Son Chung

Many speaker localization methods can be found in the literature. However, speaker localization under strong reverberation still remains a major challenge in the real-world applications. This paper proposes two algorithms for localizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Shoufeng Lin

Reverberation results in reduced intelligibility for both normal and hearing-impaired listeners. This paper presents a novel psychoacoustic approach of dereverberation of a single speech source by recycling a pre-trained binaural anechoic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 Sania Gul , Muhammad Salman Khan , Syed Waqar Shah , Ata Ur-Rehman

This paper presents an experimental study on deep speaker embedding with an attention mechanism that has been found to be a powerful representation learning technique in speaker recognition. In this framework, an attention model works as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Qiongqiong Wang , Koji Okabe , Kong Aik Lee , Hitoshi Yamamoto , Takafumi Koshinaka

Active noise control (ANC) over a sizeable space requires a large number of reference and error microphones to satisfy the spatial Nyquist sampling criterion, which limits the feasibility of practical realization of such systems. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Yu Maeno , Yuki Mitsufuji , Thushara D. Abhayapala

We propose TF-GridNet for speech separation. The model is a novel deep neural network (DNN) integrating full- and sub-band modeling in the time-frequency (T-F) domain. It stacks several blocks, each consisting of an intra-frame full-band…

A stream attention framework has been applied to the posterior probabilities of the deep neural network (DNN) to improve the far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance in the multi-microphone configuration. The stream…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Xiaofei Wang , Yonghong Yan , Hynek Hermansky

Coherent noise regularly plagues seismic recordings, causing artefacts and uncertainties in products derived from down-the-line processing and imaging tasks. The outstanding capabilities of deep learning in denoising of natural and medical…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-06-02 Sixiu Liu , Claire Birnie , Tariq Alkhalifah

In automatic speech processing systems, speaker diarization is a crucial front-end component to separate segments from different speakers. Inspired by the recent success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in semantic inferencing, triplet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-07 Huan Song , Megan Willi , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Visar Berisha , Andreas Spanias

As wireless communication systems evolve, automatic modulation recognition (AMR) plays a key role in improving spectrum efficiency, especially in cognitive radio systems. Traditional AMR methods face challenges in complex, noisy…

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Unseen data conditions can inflict serious performance degradation on systems relying on supervised machine learning algorithms. Because data can often be unseen, and because traditional machine learning algorithms are trained in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Vikramjit Mitra , Horacio Franco

A robust method for linear array is proposed to address the difficulty of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in reverberant and noisy environments. A direct-path dominance test based on the onset detection is utilized to extract…

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Deep-neural-network (DNN) based noise suppression systems yield significant improvements over conventional approaches such as spectral subtraction and non-negative matrix factorization, but do not generalize well to noise conditions they…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Deepak Baby , Sarah Verhulst

Array processing performance depends on the number of microphones available. Virtual microphone estimation (VME) has been proposed to increase the number of microphone signals artificially. Neural network-based VME (NN-VME) trains an NN…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Hanako Segawa , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Rintaro Ikeshita , Shoko Araki , Takeshi Yamada , Shoji Makino

Recent research advances in deep neural network (DNN)-based beamformers have shown great promise for speech enhancement under adverse acoustic conditions. Different network architectures and input features have been explored in estimating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Hsinyu Chang , Yicheng Hsu , Mingsian R. Bai

This paper proposes an efficient attempt to noisy speech emotion recognition (NSER). Conventional NSER approaches have proven effective in mitigating the impact of artificial noise sources, such as white Gaussian noise, but are limited to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xiaohan Shi , Jiajun He , Xingfeng Li , Tomoki Toda

Speaker verification (SV) suffers from unsatisfactory performance in far-field scenarios due to environmental noise andthe adverse impact of room reverberation. This work presents a benchmark of multichannel speech enhancement for…