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Most neural network speech enhancement models ignore speech production mathematical models by directly mapping Fourier transform spectrums or waveforms. In this work, we propose a neural source filter network for speech enhancement.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Shulin He , Wei Rao , Jinjiang Liu , Jun Chen , Yukai Ju , Xueliang Zhang , Yannan Wang , Shidong Shang

It has been shown that the intelligibility of noisy speech can be improved by speech enhancement algorithms. However, speech enhancement has not been established as an effective frontend for robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Yufeng Yang , Ashutosh Pandey , DeLiang Wang

We propose ARiSE, an auto-regressive algorithm for multi-channel speech enhancement. ARiSE improves existing deep neural network (DNN) based frame-online multi-channel speech enhancement models by introducing auto-regressive connections,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Pengjie Shen , Xueliang Zhang , Zhong-Qiu Wang

While supervised quality predictors for synthesized speech have demonstrated strong correlations with human ratings, their requirement for in-domain labeled training data hinders their generalization ability to new domains. Unsupervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Erica Cooper , Takuma Okamoto , Yamato Ohtani , Tomoki Toda , Hisashi Kawai

Deep learning technology has been widely applied to speech enhancement. While testing the effectiveness of various network structures, researchers are also exploring the improvement of the loss function used in network training. Although…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Tianrui Wang , Weibin Zhu

Speech signals are inherently complex as they encompass both global acoustic characteristics and local semantic information. However, in the task of target speech extraction, certain elements of global and local semantic information in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Sining Sun , Qing Yang

Audio deepfake detection has become increasingly challenging due to rapid advances in speech synthesis and voice conversion technologies, particularly under channel distortions, replay attacks, and real-world recording conditions. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 K. A. Shahriar

Attention mechanisms, such as local and non-local attention, play a fundamental role in recent deep learning based speech enhancement (SE) systems. However, natural speech contains many fast-changing and relatively brief acoustic events,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-16 Xinmeng Xu , Weiping Tu , Yuhong Yang

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) plays an important role in the full-duplex speech communication as well as the front-end speech enhancement for recognition in the conditions when the loudspeaker plays back. In this paper, we present an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Meng Yu , Yong Xu , Chunlei Zhang , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

Existing deep learning-based speech denoising approaches require clean speech signals to be available for training. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improve speech denoising in real-world audio environments by not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Nasim Alamdari , Arian Azarang , Nasser Kehtarnavaz

Sound event localization frameworks based on deep neural networks have shown increased robustness with respect to reverberation and noise in comparison to classical parametric approaches. In particular, recurrent architectures that…

Nowadays, most of the objective speech quality assessment tools (e.g., perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ)) are based on the comparison of the degraded/processed speech with its clean counterpart. The need of a "golden" reference…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Szu-Wei Fu , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Te Hwang , Hsin-Min Wang

Both reverberation and additive noises degrade the speech quality and intelligibility. Weighted prediction error (WPE) method performs well on the dereverberation but with limitations. First, WPE doesn't consider the influence of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Hao Li , Xueliang Zhang , Hui Zhang , Guanglai Gao

In this work, we introduce Gradient Siamese Network (GSN) for image quality assessment. The proposed method is skilled in capturing the gradient features between distorted images and reference images in full-reference image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Heng Cong , Lingzhi Fu , Rongyu Zhang , Yusheng Zhang , Hao Wang , Jiarong He , Jin Gao

The fundamental frequency (F0) contour of speech is a key aspect to represent speech prosody that finds use in speech and spoken language analysis such as voice conversion and speech synthesis as well as speaker and language identification.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-09 Akihiro Kato , Tomi Kinnunen

This paper proposes a full-band and sub-band fusion model, named as FullSubNet, for single-channel real-time speech enhancement. Full-band and sub-band refer to the models that input full-band and sub-band noisy spectral feature, output…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Xiang Hao , Xiangdong Su , Radu Horaud , Xiaofei Li

In this paper we tackle the problem of estimating the 3D pose of object instances, using convolutional neural networks. State of the art methods usually solve the challenging problem of regression in angle space indirectly, focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Andreas Doumanoglou , Vassileios Balntas , Rigas Kouskouridas , Tae-Kyun Kim

In recent decades, neural network based methods have significantly improved the performace of speech enhancement. Most of them estimate time-frequency (T-F) representation of target speech directly or indirectly, then resynthesize waveform…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Jingdong Li , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang , Changliang Li

We present a novel benchmark dataset and prediction tasks for investigating approaches to assess cognitive function through analysis of connected speech. The dataset consists of speech samples and clinical information for speakers of…

Audio-visual speech enhancement system is regarded to be one of promising solutions for isolating and enhancing speech of desired speaker. Conventional methods focus on predicting clean speech spectrum via a naive convolution neural network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Xinmeng Xu , Jianjun Hao