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In real-world scenarios, speech signals are inevitably corrupted by various types of interference, making speech enhancement (SE) a critical task for robust speech processing. However, most existing SE methods only handle a limited range of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Fei Liu , Yang Ai , Ye-Xin Lu , Rui-Chen Zheng , Hui-Peng Du , Zhen-Hua Ling

Recently, direct modeling of raw waveforms using deep neural networks has been widely studied for a number of tasks in audio domains. In speaker verification, however, utilization of raw waveforms is in its preliminary phase, requiring…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-18 Jee-weon Jung , Hee-Soo Heo , Ju-ho Kim , Hye-jin Shim , Ha-Jin Yu

Recently, multi-channel speech enhancement has drawn much interest due to the use of spatial information to distinguish target speech from interfering signal. To make full use of spatial information and neural network based masking…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Shubo Lv , Yihui Fu , Yukai Jv , Lei Xie , Weixin Zhu , Wei Rao , Yannan Wang

Speech enhancement at extremely low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) condition is a very challenging problem and rarely investigated in previous works. This paper proposes a robust speech enhancement approach (UNetGAN) based on U-Net and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Xiang Hao , Xiangdong Su , Zhiyu Wang , Hui Zhang , Batushiren

This work introduces UDPNet, a novel architecture designed to accelerate the reverse diffusion process in speech synthesis. Unlike traditional diffusion models that rely on timestep embeddings and shared network parameters, UDPNet unrolls…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Peter Ochieng

Currently, most speech processing techniques use magnitude spectrograms as front-end and are therefore by default discarding part of the signal: the phase. In order to overcome this limitation, we propose an end-to-end learning method for…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Dario Rethage , Jordi Pons , Xavier Serra

While traditional statistical signal processing model-based methods can derive the optimal estimators relying on specific statistical assumptions, current learning-based methods further promote the performance upper bound via deep neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Ziyang Zhang , Xiaodong Li

In this study we present a mixture of deep experts (MoDE) neural-network architecture for single microphone speech enhancement. Our architecture comprises a set of deep neural networks (DNNs), each of which is an 'expert' in a different…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Shlomo E. Chazan , Jacob Goldberger , Sharon Gannot

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

We investigate the potential of stochastic neural networks for learning effective waveform-based acoustic models. The waveform-based setting, inherent to fully end-to-end speech recognition systems, is motivated by several comparative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-17 Dino Oglic , Zoran Cvetkovic , Peter Sollich

Lightweight models are essential for real-time speech enhancement applications. In recent years, there has been a growing trend toward developing increasingly compact models for speech enhancement. In this paper, we propose an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Xiaobin Rong , Leyan Yang , Dahan Wang , Yuxiang Hu , Changbao Zhu , Kai Chen , Jing Lu

U-Net has become one of the state-of-the-art deep learning-based approaches for modern computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation, super resolution, image denoising, and inpainting. Previous extensions of U-Net have focused mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Tiange Xiang , Chaoyi Zhang , Dongnan Liu , Yang Song , Heng Huang , Weidong Cai

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

This paper presents a statistical method of single-channel speech enhancement that uses a variational autoencoder (VAE) as a prior distribution on clean speech. A standard approach to speech enhancement is to train a deep neural network…

In this paper, we introduce a spectral-domain inverse filtering approach for single-channel speech de-reverberation using deep convolutional neural network (CNN). The main goal is to better handle realistic reverberant conditions where the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Hanwook Chung , Vikrant Singh Tomar , Benoit Champagne

We propose an end-to-end joint optimization framework of a multi-channel neural speech extraction and deep acoustic model without mel-filterbank (FBANK) extraction for overlapped speech recognition. First, based on a multi-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Bo Wu , Meng Yu , Lianwu Chen , Chao Weng , Dan Su , Dong Yu

Recent studies have highlighted adversarial examples as ubiquitous threats to the deep neural network (DNN) based speech recognition systems. In this work, we present a U-Net based attention model, U-Net$_{At}$, to enhance adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Jun Qi , Pin-Yu Chen , Xiaoli Ma , Chin-Hui Lee

Transient loud intrusions, often occurring in noisy environments, can completely overpower speech signal and lead to an inevitable loss of information. While existing algorithms for noise suppression can yield impressive results, their…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Mikolaj Kegler , Pierre Beckmann , Milos Cernak

We propose a novel deep neural network architecture for speech recognition that explicitly employs knowledge of the background environmental noise within a deep neural network acoustic model. A deep neural network is used to predict the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Suyoun Kim , Bhiksha Raj , Ian Lane

Recently, a complex variational autoencoder (VAE)-based single-channel speech enhancement system based on the DCCRN architecture has been proposed. In this system, a noise suppression VAE (NSVAE) learns to extract clean speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Jiatong Li , Simon Doclo