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Target speech separation refers to extracting the target speaker's speech from mixed signals. Despite the recent advances in deep learning based close-talk speech separation, the applications to real-world are still an open issue. Two main…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Rongzhi Gu , Yuexian Zou

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Wangye Jiang , Haoming Yang , Xinyu Lu , Mingyuan Wang , Huimei Sun , Jingya Zhang

Data-driven models achieve successful results in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). However, these models, which are often based on general acoustic features or end-to-end approaches, show poor performance when the testing set has a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Duowei Tang , Peter Kuppens , Lucca Geurts , Toon van Waterschoot

Recurrent neural network transducers (RNN-T) have been successfully applied in end-to-end speech recognition. However, the recurrent structure makes it difficult for parallelization . In this paper, we propose a self-attention transducer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Zhengkun Tian , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Ye Bai , Zhengqi Wen

Multi-frame algorithms for single-microphone speech enhancement, e.g., the multi-frame minimum variance distortionless response (MFMVDR) filter, are able to exploit speech correlation across adjacent time frames in the short-time Fourier…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-17 Marvin Tammen , Simon Doclo

While existing end-to-end beamformers achieve impressive performance in various front-end speech processing tasks, they usually encapsulate the whole process into a black box and thus lack adequate interpretability. As an attempt to fill…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Andong Li , Guochen Yu , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

In millimeter-wave communications, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems use large antenna arrays to achieve high gain and spectral efficiency. These massive MIMO systems employ hybrid beamformers to reduce power consumption…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-26 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra

Deep neural network with dual-path bi-directional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) block has been proved to be very effective in sequence modeling, especially in speech separation, e.g. DPRNN-TasNet \cite{luo2019dual}. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Ziqiang Shi , Rujie Liu , Jiqing Han

This paper addresses the problem of automatic speech recognition (ASR) of a target speaker in background speech. The novelty of our approach is that we focus on a wakeup keyword, which is usually used for activating ASR systems like smart…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Yusuke Kida , Dung Tran , Motoi Omachi , Toru Taniguchi , Yuya Fujita

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in multichannel, multi-speaker scenarios remains challenging due to ambient noise, reverberation and overlapping speakers. In this paper, we propose a beamforming approach that processes specific angular…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Can Cui , Paul Magron , Mostafa Sadeghi , Emmanuel Vincent

Distant-microphone meeting transcription is a challenging task. State-of-the-art end-to-end speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) architectures lack a multichannel noise and reverberation reduction front-end, which limits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Can Cui , Imran Ahamad Sheikh , Mostafa Sadeghi , Emmanuel Vincent

Multi-frame approaches for single-microphone speech enhancement, e.g., the multi-frame minimum-power-distortionless-response (MFMPDR) filter, are able to exploit speech correlations across neighboring time frames. In contrast to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Marvin Tammen , Dörte Fischer , Bernd T. Meyer , Simon Doclo

A promising approach for speech dereverberation is based on supervised learning, where a deep neural network (DNN) is trained to predict the direct sound from noisy-reverberant speech. This data-driven approach is based on leveraging prior…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

We propose an autoencoding sequence-based transceiver for communication over dispersive channels with intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD), designed as a bidirectional deep recurrent neural network (BRNN). The receiver uses a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Boris Karanov , Domaniç Lavery , Polina Bayvel , Laurent Schmalen

Studies have shown that in noisy acoustic environments, providing binaural signals to the user of an assistive listening device may improve speech intelligibility and spatial awareness. This paper presents a binaural speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor

Extending the RNN Transducer (RNNT) to recognize multi-talker speech is essential for wider automatic speech recognition (ASR) applications. Multi-talker RNNT (MT-RNNT) aims to achieve recognition without relying on costly front-end source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Takafumi Moriya , Shota Horiguchi , Marc Delcroix , Ryo Masumura , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroshi Sato , Kohei Matsuura , Masato Mimura

Deep learning-based speech enhancement has shown unprecedented performance in recent years. The most popular mono speech enhancement frameworks are end-to-end networks mapping the noisy mixture into an estimate of the clean speech. With…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Bahareh Tolooshams , Kazuhito Koishida

The field of speech recognition is in the midst of a paradigm shift: end-to-end neural networks are challenging the dominance of hidden Markov models as a core technology. Using an attention mechanism in a recurrent encoder-decoder…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Tsubasa Ochiai , Shinji Watanabe , Takaaki Hori , John R. Hershey

In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based wireless communication systems, the bit error rate (BER) performance is heavily dependent on the accuracy of channel estimation. It is important for a good channel estimator to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Athur Michon , Fayçal Ait Aoudia , K. Pavan Srinath

In a multi-channel separation task with multiple speakers, we aim to recover all individual speech signals from the mixture. In contrast to single-channel approaches, which rely on the different spectro-temporal characteristics of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann