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Recent advancements in speaker verification techniques show promise, but their performance often deteriorates significantly in challenging acoustic environments. Although speech enhancement methods can improve perceived audio quality, they…

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The deep learning-based speech enhancement (SE) methods always take the clean speech's waveform or time-frequency spectrum feature as the learning target, and train the deep neural network (DNN) by reducing the error loss between the DNN's…

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The human auditory system has the ability to selectively focus on key speech elements in an audio stream while giving secondary attention to less relevant areas such as noise or distortion within the background, dynamically adjusting its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Nursadul Mamun , John H. L. Hansen

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to extract the clean waveform from noise-contaminated measurements to improve the speech quality and intelligibility. Although learning-based methods can perform much better than traditional counterparts, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Haoyin Yan , Jie Zhang , Cunhang Fan , Yeping Zhou , Peiqi Liu

Deep neural networks are often coupled with traditional spatial filters, such as MVDR beamformers for effectively exploiting spatial information. Even though single-stage end-to-end supervised models can obtain impressive enhancement,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Asutosh Pandey , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar , Jacob Donley , Paul Calamia , DeLiang Wang

Deep neural network (DNN) based speech enhancement models have attracted extensive attention due to their promising performance. However, it is difficult to deploy a powerful DNN in real-time applications because of its high computational…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xiaohuai Le , Tong Lei , Kai Chen , Jing Lu

We investigate the viability of a variational U-Net architecture for denoising of single-channel audio data. Deep network speech enhancement systems commonly aim to estimate filter masks, or opt to work on the waveform signal, potentially…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Eike J. Nustede , Jörn Anemüller

We present aTENNuate, a simple deep state-space autoencoder configured for efficient online raw speech enhancement in an end-to-end fashion. The network's performance is primarily evaluated on raw speech denoising, with additional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yan Ru Pei , Ritik Shrivastava , FNU Sidharth

The task of estimating the maximum number of concurrent speakers from single channel mixtures is important for various audio-based applications, such as blind source separation, speaker diarisation, audio surveillance or auditory scene…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Fabian-Robert Stöter , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Bernd Edler , Emanuël A. P. Habets

This work proposes a neural network to extensively exploit spatial information for multichannel joint speech separation, denoising and dereverberation, named SpatialNet. In the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain, the proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Changsheng Quan , Xiaofei Li

Multi-channel speech enhancement aims to extract clean speech from a noisy mixture using signals captured from multiple microphones. Recently proposed methods tackle this problem by incorporating deep neural network models with spatial…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Panagiotis Tzirakis , Anurag Kumar , Jacob Donley

The front-end module in multi-channel automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems mainly use microphone array techniques to produce enhanced signals in noisy conditions with reverberation and echos. Recently, neural network (NN) based…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Yuxiang Kong , Jian Wu , Quandong Wang , Peng Gao , Weiji Zhuang , Yujun Wang , Lei Xie

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

In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks have shown fascinating performance in the field of image denoising. However, deeper network architectures are often accompanied with large numbers of model parameters, leading to high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Wencong Wu , Shicheng Liao , Guannan Lv , Peng Liang , Yungang Zhang

As the cornerstone of other important technologies, such as speech recognition and speech synthesis, speech enhancement is a critical area in audio signal processing. In this paper, a new deep learning structure for speech enhancement is…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Yuzi Yan , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Michael T. Johnson

Ensuring intelligible speech communication for hearing assistive devices in low-latency scenarios presents significant challenges in terms of speech enhancement, coding and transmission. In this paper, we propose novel solutions for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Mohammad Bokaei , Jesper Jensen , Simon Doclo , Jan Østergaard

It remains a tough challenge to recover the speech signals contaminated by various noises under real acoustic environments. To this end, we propose a novel system for denoising in the complicated applications, which is mainly comprised of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Andong Li , Wenzhe Liu , Xiaoxue Luo , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

A promising approach for multi-microphone speech separation involves two deep neural networks (DNN), where the predicted target speech from the first DNN is used to compute signal statistics for time-invariant minimum variance…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Time-frequency (T-F) domain masking is a mainstream approach for single-channel speech enhancement. Recently, focuses have been put to phase prediction in addition to amplitude prediction. In this paper, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Dacheng Yin , Chong Luo , Zhiwei Xiong , Wenjun Zeng

Recently, deep learning-based beamforming algorithms have shown promising performance in target speech extraction tasks. However, most systems do not fully utilize spatial information. In this paper, we propose a target speech extraction…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Aoqi Guo , Junnan Wu , Peng Gao , Wenbo Zhu , Qinwen Guo , Dazhi Gao , Yujun Wang