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Current multichannel speech enhancement algorithms typically assume a stationary sound source, a common mismatch with reality that limits their performance in real-world scenarios. This paper focuses on attention-driven spatial filtering…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

Recent works have shown that Deep Recurrent Neural Networks using the LSTM architecture can achieve strong single-channel speech enhancement by estimating time-frequency masks. However, these models do not naturally generalize to…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Felix Grezes , Zhaoheng Ni , Viet Anh Trinh , Michael Mandel

In this study, we present an approach to train a single speech enhancement network that can perform both personalized and non-personalized speech enhancement. This is achieved by incorporating a frame-wise conditioning input that specifies…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Zhepei Wang , Ritwik Giri , Devansh Shah , Jean-Marc Valin , Michael M. Goodwin , Paris Smaragdis

While traditional statistical signal processing model-based methods can derive the optimal estimators relying on specific statistical assumptions, current learning-based methods further promote the performance upper bound via deep neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Ziyang Zhang , Xiaodong Li

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

Using neural network based acoustic frontends for improving robustness of streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is challenging because of the causality constraints and the resulting distortion that the frontend processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Arun Narayanan , James Walker , Sankaran Panchapagesan , Nathan Howard , Yuma Koizumi

In this paper we address the problem of enhancing speech signals in noisy mixtures using a source separation approach. We explore the use of neural networks as an alternative to a popular speech variance model based on supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Simon Leglaive , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

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

In this paper, we propose hybrid real- and complex-valued neural networks for speech enhancement. Real- or complex-valued models are either inefficient or present high complexity. We devise a straightforward design method for extending a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Luan Vinícius Fiorio , Alex Young , Ronald M. Aarts

Recently, variational autoencoders have been successfully used to learn a probabilistic prior over speech signals, which is then used to perform speech enhancement. However, variational autoencoders are trained on clean speech only, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Guillaume Carbajal , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

Supervised speech enhancement relies on parallel databases of degraded speech signals and their clean reference signals during training. This setting prohibits the use of real-world degraded speech data that may better represent the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Yangyang Xia , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar

Multi-channel speech enhancement with ad-hoc sensors has been a challenging task. Speech model guided beamforming algorithms are able to recover natural sounding speech, but the speech models tend to be oversimplified or the inference would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Xuesong Yang , Dinei Florencio , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Teleconferencing is becoming essential during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in real-world applications, speech quality can deteriorate due to, for example, background interference, noise, or reverberation. To solve this problem, target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Yicheng Hsu , Yonghan Lee , Mingsian R. Bai

Speech enhancement and source localization has been active research for several decades with a wide range of real-world applications. Recently, the Deep Complex Convolution Recurrent network (DCCRN) has yielded impressive enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Yuan Chen , Yicheng Hsu , Mingsian R. Bai

Most of the deep learning based speech enhancement (SE) methods rely on estimating the magnitude spectrum of the clean speech signal from the observed noisy speech signal, either by magnitude spectral masking or regression. These methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Raktim Gautam Goswami , Sivaganesh Andhavarapu , K Sri Rama Murty

We investigate a speech enhancement method based on the binaural coherence-to-diffuse power ratio (CDR), which preserves auditory spatial cues for maskers and a broadside target. Conventional CDR estimators typically rely on a mathematical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Reza Ghanavi , Craig Jin

In this paper, we propose a method combining variational autoencoder model of speech with a spatial clustering approach for multi-channel speech separation. The advantage of integrating spatial clustering with a spectral model was shown in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Katerina Zmolikova , Marc Delcroix , Lukáš Burget , Tomohiro Nakatani , Jan "Honza" Černocký

In this paper, we propose a speech enhancement method us ing dual-path Multi-Channel Linear Prediction (MCLP) filters and multi-norm beamforming. Specifically, the MCLP part in the proposed method is designed with dual-path filters in both…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Chengyuan Qin , Wenmeng Xiong , Jing Zhou , Maoshen Jia , Changchun Bao

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

We introduce a real-time, multichannel speech enhancement algorithm which maintains the spatial cues of stereo recordings including two speech sources. Recognizing that each source has unique spatial information, our method utilizes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Masahito Togami , Jean-Marc Valin , Karim Helwani , Ritwik Giri , Umut Isik , Michael M. Goodwin