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Neural text-to-speech systems are often optimized on L1/L2 losses, which make strong assumptions about the distributions of the target data space. Aiming to improve those assumptions, Normalizing Flows and Diffusion Probabilistic Models…

This paper introduces a novel speech enhancement (SE) approach based on a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM), termed Guided diffusion for speech enhancement (GDiffuSE). In contrast to conventional methods that directly map noisy…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Efrayim Yanir , David Burshtein , Sharon Gannot

Token-based language modeling is a prominent approach for speech generation, where tokens are obtained by quantizing features from self-supervised learning (SSL) models and extracting codes from neural speech codecs, generally referred to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Yang Yang , Yunpeng Li , George Sung , Shao-Fu Shih , Craig Dooley , Alessio Centazzo , Ramanan Rajeswaran

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Jen-Cheng Hou , Syu-Siang Wang , Ying-Hui Lai , Yu Tsao , Hsiu-Wen Chang , Hsin-Min Wang

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Jen-Cheng Hou , Syu-Siang Wang , Ying-Hui Lai , Yu Tsao , Hsiu-Wen Chang , Hsin-Min Wang

Noise suppression systems generally produce output speech with compromised quality. We propose to utilize the high quality speech generation capability of neural vocoders for noise suppression. We use a neural network to predict clean…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Soumi Maiti , Michael I Mandel

Speech separation models are used for isolating individual speakers in many speech processing applications. Deep learning models have been shown to lead to state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on a number of speech separation benchmarks. One…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-13 William Ravenscroft , Stefan Goetze , Thomas Hain

Diffusion models have recently set new benchmarks in Speech Enhancement (SE). However, most existing score-based models treat speech spectrograms merely as generic 2D images, applying uniform processing that ignores the intrinsic structural…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ke Xue , Rongfei Fan , Kai Li , Shanping Yu , Puning Zhao , Jianping An

Speech enhancement has seen great improvement in recent years mainly through contributions in denoising, speaker separation, and dereverberation methods that mostly deal with environmental effects on vocal audio. To enhance speech beyond…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Adam Polyak , Lior Wolf , Yossi Adi , Ori Kabeli , Yaniv Taigman

Diffusion models (DM) can gradually learn to remove noise, which have been widely used in artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) in recent years. The property of DM for eliminating noise leads us to wonder whether DM can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Dazhi He , Liang Qian , Yin Xu , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

The diffusion model is capable of generating high-quality data through a probabilistic approach. However, it suffers from the drawback of slow generation speed due to the requirement of a large number of time steps. To address this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Myeongjin Ko , Yong-Hoon Choi

Gaps, dropouts and short clips of corrupted audio are a common problem and particularly annoying when they occur in speech. This paper uses machine learning to regenerate gaps of up to 320ms in an audio speech signal. Audio regeneration is…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Deniss Strods , Alan F. Smeaton

Diffusion models (DM) can gradually learn to remove noise, which have been widely used in artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) in recent years. The property of DM for removing noise leads us to wonder whether DM can be applied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Dazhi He , Liang Qian , Yin Xu , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

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

High quality speech capture has been widely studied for both voice communication and human computer interface reasons. To improve the capture performance, we can often find multi-microphone speech enhancement techniques deployed on various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Yang Yang , Shao-Fu Shih , Hakan Erdogan , Jamie Menjay Lin , Chehung Lee , Yunpeng Li , George Sung , Matthias Grundmann

While diffusion models are best known for their performance in generative tasks, they have also been successfully applied to many other tasks, including audio source separation. However, current generative approaches to music source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Yun-Ning , Hung , Richard Vogl , Filip Korzeniowski , Igor Pereira

In this paper, we address the problem of single-microphone speech separation in the presence of ambient noise. We propose a generative unsupervised technique that directly models both clean speech and structured noise components, training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Yochai Yemini , Rami Ben-Ari , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetaya

Recent advances in diffusion models have spurred research into their application for Reconstruction-based unsupervised anomaly detection. However, these methods may struggle with maintaining structural integrity and recovering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Farzad Beizaee , Gregory A. Lodygensky , Christian Desrosiers , Jose Dolz

Data augmentation has proven to be a promising prospect in improving the performance of deep learning models by adding variability to training data. In previous work with developing a noise robust acoustic-to-articulatory speech inversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Yashish M. Siriwardena , Ahmed Adel Attia , Ganesh Sivaraman , Carol Espy-Wilson

Speech enhancement algorithms based on deep learning have been improved in terms of speech intelligibility and perceptual quality greatly. Many methods focus on enhancing the amplitude spectrum while reconstructing speech using the mixture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Qinglong Li , Fei Gao , Haixin Guan , Kaichi Ma