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In this paper we demonstrate speech synthesis using different electroencephalography (EEG) feature sets recently introduced in [1]. We make use of a recurrent neural network (RNN) regression model to predict acoustic features directly from…

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We present a model for predicting articulatory features from surface electromyography (EMG) signals during speech production. The proposed model integrates convolutional layers and a Transformer block, followed by separate predictors for…

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This paper presents a novel metric learning approach to address the performance gap between normal and silent speech in visual speech recognition (VSR). The difference in lip movements between the two poses a challenge for existing VSR…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Sara Kashiwagi , Keitaro Tanaka , Qi Feng , Shigeo Morishima

We present a neuromuscular speech interface that translates silently voiced articulations directly into text. We record surface electromyographic (EMG) signals from multiple articulatory sites on the face and neck as participants silently…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Harshavardhana T. Gowda , Lee M. Miller

Speechreading is the task of inferring phonetic information from visually observed articulatory facial movements, and is a notoriously difficult task for humans to perform. In this paper we present an end-to-end model based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Ariel Ephrat , Tavi Halperin , Shmuel Peleg

The goal of this contribution is to use a parametric speech synthesis system for reducing background noise and other interferences from recorded speech signals. In a first step, Hidden Markov Models of the synthesis system are trained. Two…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Daniel Dzibela , Armin Sehr

Language models (LMs) have shown superior performances in various speech generation tasks recently, demonstrating their powerful ability for semantic context modeling. Given the intrinsic similarity between speech generation and speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Ziqian Wang , Xinfa Zhu , Zihan Zhang , YuanJun Lv , Ning Jiang , Guoqing Zhao , Lei Xie

Speech emotion recognition systems have high prediction latency because of the high computational requirements for deep learning models and low generalizability mainly because of the poor reliability of emotional measurements across…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Abdul Rehman , Zhen-Tao Liu , Min Wu , Wei-Hua Cao , Cheng-Shan Jiang

In this work, we propose a novel method for modeling numerous speakers, which enables expressing the overall characteristics of speakers in detail like a trained multi-speaker model without additional training on the target speaker's…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jungil Kong , Junmo Lee , Jeongmin Kim , Beomjeong Kim , Jihoon Park , Dohee Kong , Changheon Lee , Sangjin Kim

Recently, many efforts have been made to explore how the brain processes speech using electroencephalographic (EEG) signals, where deep learning-based approaches were shown to be applicable in this field. In order to decode speech signals…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Qiushi Zhu , Xiaoying Zhao , Jie Zhang , Yu Gu , Chao Weng , Yuchen Hu

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

The performance of automatic speech recognition systems(ASR) degrades in the presence of noisy speech. This paper demonstrates that using electroencephalography (EEG) can help automatic speech recognition systems overcome performance loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Jianguo Yu , Ahmed H Tewfik

Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals have emerged as a promising modality for biometric identification. While previous studies have explored the use of imagined speech with semantically meaningful words for subject identification, most have…

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We propose spoken sentence embeddings which capture both acoustic and linguistic content. While existing works operate at the character, phoneme, or word level, our method learns long-term dependencies by modeling speech at the sentence…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Albert Haque , Michelle Guo , Prateek Verma , Li Fei-Fei

Silent speech interfaces (SSI) has been an exciting area of recent interest. In this paper, we present a non-invasive silent speech interface that uses inaudible acoustic signals to capture people's lip movements when they speak. We exploit…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Jian Luo , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Guilin Jiang , Jing Xiao

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) offer numerous human-centered application possibilities, particularly affecting people with neurological disorders. Text or speech decoding from brain activities is a relevant domain that could augment the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Jihwan Lee , Tiantian Feng , Aditya Kommineni , Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri , Shrikanth Narayanan

In this paper we explore continuous silent speech recognition using electroencephalography (EEG) signals. We implemented a connectionist temporal classification (CTC) automatic speech recognition (ASR) model to translate EEG signals…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed Tewfik

Speech produced by human vocal apparatus conveys substantial non-semantic information including the gender of the speaker, voice quality, affective state, abnormalities in the vocal apparatus etc. Such information is attributed to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Prathosh A. P. , Varun Srivastava , Mayank Mishra

Contemporary speech enhancement predominantly relies on audio transforms that are trained to reconstruct a clean speech waveform. The development of high-performing neural network sound recognition systems has raised the possibility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mark R. Saddler , Andrew Francl , Jenelle Feather , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Josh H. McDermott

In this paper we demonstrate spoken speech enhancement using electroencephalography (EEG) signals using a generative adversarial network (GAN) based model, gated recurrent unit (GRU) regression based model, temporal convolutional network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Yan Han , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed H Tewfik