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Speech enhancement is a task to improve the intelligibility and perceptual quality of degraded speech signal. Recently, neural networks based methods have been applied to speech enhancement. However, many neural network based methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Qiuqiang Kong , Haohe Liu , Xingjian Du , Li Chen , Rui Xia , Yuxuan Wang

This paper investigates several aspects of training a RNN (recurrent neural network) that impact the objective and subjective quality of enhanced speech for real-time single-channel speech enhancement. Specifically, we focus on a RNN that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Yangyang Xia , Sebastian Braun , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Harishchandra Dubey , Ross Cutler , Ivan Tashev

This paper introduces an innovative method for reducing the computational complexity of deep neural networks in real-time speech enhancement on resource-constrained devices. The proposed approach utilizes a two-stage processing framework,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Oliver Thiergart , Edwin Mabande

Deep learning has the potential to enhance speech signals and increase their intelligibility for users of hearing aids. Deep models suited for real-world application should feature a low computational complexity and low processing delay of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Nils L. Westhausen , Hendrik Kayser , Theresa Jansen , Bernd T. Meyer

In speech enhancement, the lack of clear structural characteristics in the target speech phase requires the use of conservative and cumbersome network frameworks. It seems difficult to achieve competitive performance using direct methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Liang Liu , Haixin Guan , Jinlong Ma , Wei Dai , Guangyong Wang , Shaowei Ding

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

This paper introduces a dual-signal transformation LSTM network (DTLN) for real-time speech enhancement as part of the Deep Noise Suppression Challenge (DNS-Challenge). This approach combines a short-time Fourier transform (STFT) and a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Nils L. Westhausen , Bernd T. Meyer

The Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) challenge is designed to foster innovation in the area of noise suppression to achieve superior perceptual speech quality. We recently organized a DNS challenge special session at INTERSPEECH 2020. We open…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Chandan K A Reddy , Harishchandra Dubey , Vishak Gopal , Ross Cutler , Sebastian Braun , Hannes Gamper , Robert Aichner , Sriram Srinivasan

The performance of conventional speech enhancement systems degrades sharply in extremely low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environments where air-conduction (AC) microphones are overwhelmed by ambient noise. Although bone-conduction (BC)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Yilei Wu , Changyan Zheng , Xingyu Zhang , Yakun Zhang , Chengshi Zheng , Shuang Yang , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

Advancements in deep learning and voice-activated technologies have driven the development of human-vehicle interaction. Distributed microphone arrays are widely used in in-car scenarios because they can accurately capture the voices of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Ziqian Wang , Jiayao Sun , Zihan Zhang , Xingchen Li , Jie Liu , Lei Xie

Due to the unprecedented breakthroughs brought about by deep learning, speech enhancement (SE) techniques have been developed rapidly and play an important role prior to acoustic modeling to mitigate noise effects on speech. To increase the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Fu-An Chao , Shao-Wei Fan Jiang , Bi-Cheng Yan , Jeih-weih Hung , Berlin Chen

Speech self-supervised learning (SSL) has made great progress in various speech processing tasks, but there is still room for improvement in speech enhancement (SE). This paper presents BSP-MPNet, a dual-path framework that combines…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Alimjan Mattursun , Liejun Wang , Yinfeng Yu , Chunyang Ma

In multichannel speech enhancement, both spectral and spatial information are vital for discriminating between speech and noise. How to fully exploit these two types of information and their temporal dynamics remains an interesting research…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Yujie Yang , Changsheng Quan , Xiaofei Li

With recent research advancements, deep learning models are becoming attractive and powerful choices for speech enhancement in real-time applications. While state-of-the-art models can achieve outstanding results in terms of speech quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Sebastian Braun , Hannes Gamper , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Ivan Tashev

Speech enhancement, particularly denoising, is vital in improving the intelligibility and quality of speech signals for real-world applications, especially in noisy environments. While prior research has introduced various deep learning…

In image denoising, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can obtain favorable performance on removing spatially invariant noise. However, many of these networks cannot perform well on removing the real noise (i.e. spatially variant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Wencong Wu , Shijie Liu , Yi Zhou , Yungang Zhang , Yu Xiang

This paper proposes a delayed subband LSTM network for online monaural (single-channel) speech enhancement. The proposed method is developed in the short time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. Online processing requires frame-by-frame signal…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xiaofei Li , Radu Horaud

This paper describes a practical dual-process speech enhancement system that adapts environment-sensitive frame-online beamforming (front-end) with help from environment-free block-online source separation (back-end). To use minimum…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Aditya Arie Nugraha , Kouhei Sekiguchi , Mathieu Fontaine , Yoshiaki Bando , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

In this paper, we investigate a deep learning approach for speech denoising through an efficient ensemble of specialist neural networks. By splitting up the speech denoising task into non-overlapping subproblems and introducing a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim

Speech quality and intelligibility are significantly degraded in noisy environments. This paper presents a novel transformer-based learning framework to address the single-channel noise suppression problem for real-time applications.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Behnaz Bahmei , Siamak Arzanpour , Elina Birmingham