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Previous research in speech enhancement has mostly focused on modeling time or time-frequency domain information alone, with little consideration given to the potential benefits of simultaneously modeling both domains. Since these domains…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Feng Dang , Qi Hu , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

Compensation for channel mismatch and noise interference is essential for robust automatic speech recognition. Enhanced speech has been introduced into the multi-condition training of acoustic models to improve their generalization ability.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Hung-Shin Lee , Pin-Yuan Chen , Yao-Fei Cheng , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

In recent years, deep networks have led to dramatic improvements in speech enhancement by framing it as a data-driven pattern recognition problem. In many modern enhancement systems, large amounts of data are used to train a deep network to…

We propose an end-to-end joint optimization framework of a multi-channel neural speech extraction and deep acoustic model without mel-filterbank (FBANK) extraction for overlapped speech recognition. First, based on a multi-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Bo Wu , Meng Yu , Lianwu Chen , Chao Weng , Dan Su , Dong Yu

In this paper, we propose two mask-based beamforming methods using a deep neural network (DNN) trained by multichannel loss functions. Beamforming technique using time-frequency (TF)-masks estimated by a DNN have been applied to many…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Yoshiki Masuyama , Masahito Togami , Tatsuya Komatsu

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown significant improvements in recent years for speech enhancement. However, the model complexity and inference time cost of RNNs are much higher than deep feed-forward neural networks (DNNs).…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Cunhang Fan , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen , Leichao Song

Human auditory cortex excels at selectively suppressing background noise to focus on a target speaker. The process of selective attention in the brain is known to contextually exploit the available audio and visual cues to better focus on…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Mandar Gogate , Ahsan Adeel , Ricard Marxer , Jon Barker , Amir Hussain

Multichannel processing is widely used for speech enhancement but several limitations appear when trying to deploy these solutions to the real-world. Distributed sensor arrays that consider several devices with a few microphones is a viable…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Irina Illina , Slim Essid

We propose a multi-objective framework to learn both secondary targets not directly related to the intended task of speech enhancement (SE) and the primary target of the clean log-power spectra (LPS) features to be used directly for…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Yong Xu , Jun Du , Zhen Huang , Li-Rong Dai , Chin-Hui Lee

This paper introduces our approaches for the Mask and Breathing Sub-Challenge in the Interspeech COMPARE Challenge 2020. For the mask detection task, we train deep convolutional neural networks with filter-bank energies, gender-aware…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Haiwei Wu , Lin Zhang , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Dong Zhang , Ming Li

This paper describes noisy speech recognition for an augmented reality headset that helps verbal communication within real multiparty conversational environments. A major approach that has actively been studied in simulated environments is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Yicheng Du , Aditya Arie Nugraha , Kouhei Sekiguchi , Yoshiaki Bando , Mathieu Fontaine , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

The joint training framework for speech enhancement and recognition methods have obtained quite good performances for robust end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, these methods only utilize the enhanced feature as the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Cunhang Fan , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Zhengkun Tian , Bin Liu , Zhengqi Wen

This study proposes a trainable adaptive window switching (AWS) method and apply it to a deep-neural-network (DNN) for speech enhancement in the modified discrete cosine transform domain. Time-frequency (T-F) mask processing in the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 Yuma Koizumi , Noboru Harada , Yoichi Haneda

We introduce EffiFusion-GAN (Efficient Fusion Generative Adversarial Network), a lightweight yet powerful model for speech enhancement. The model integrates depthwise separable convolutions within a multi-scale block to capture diverse…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Bin Wen , Tien-Ping Tan

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully used for speech enhancement, and DNN-based speech enhancement is becoming an attractive research area. While time-frequency masking based on the short-time Fourier transform…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Yuichiro Koyama , Tyler Vuong , Stefan Uhlich , Bhiksha Raj

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to suppress the additive noise from a noisy speech signal to improve the speech's perceptual quality and intelligibility. However, the over-suppression phenomenon in the enhanced speech might degrade the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Yuchen Hu , Nana Hou , Chen Chen , Eng Siong Chng

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) typically improves recognition accuracy in noisy environments by integrating noise-immune visual cues with audio signals. Nevertheless, high-noise audio inputs are prone to introducing adverse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Linzhi Wu , Xingyu Zhang , Hao Yuan , Yakun Zhang , Changyan Zheng , Liang Xie , Tiejun Liu , Erwei Yin

In this paper, we present a scheme for extending deep neural network-based multiplicative maskers to deep subband filters for speech restoration in the time-frequency domain. The resulting method can be generically applied to any deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julian Tobergte , Timo Gerkmann

Supervised masking approaches in the time-frequency domain aim to employ deep neural networks to estimate a multiplicative mask to extract clean speech. This leads to a single estimate for each input without any guarantees or measures of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Huajian Fang , Dennis Becker , Stefan Wermter , Timo Gerkmann

Speaker verification systems have been used in many production scenarios in recent years. Unfortunately, they are still highly prone to different kinds of spoofing attacks such as voice conversion and speech synthesis, etc. In this paper,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Junxiao Xue , Hao Zhou , Yabo Wang