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This paper proposes a novel formulation of prototypical loss with mixup for speaker verification. Mixup is a simple yet efficient data augmentation technique that fabricates a weighted combination of random data point and label pairs for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Xin Zhang , Minho Jin , Roger Cheng , Ruirui Li , Eunjung Han , Andreas Stolcke

Consonant and vowel reduction are often encountered in speech, which might cause performance degradation in automatic speech recognition (ASR). Our recently proposed learning strategy based on masking, Phone Masking Training (PMT),…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Guodong Ma , Pengfei Hu , Nurmemet Yolwas , Shen Huang , Hao Huang

A Pascal challenge entitled monaural multi-talker speech recognition was developed, targeting the problem of robust automatic speech recognition against speech like noises which significantly degrades the performance of automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Mahdi Khademian , Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour

In this paper, we present an Adaptive Ensemble Learning framework that aims to boost the performance of deep neural networks by intelligently fusing features through ensemble learning techniques. The proposed framework integrates ensemble…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Neelesh Mungoli

From hearing aids to augmented and virtual reality devices, binaural speech enhancement algorithms have been established as state-of-the-art techniques to improve speech intelligibility and listening comfort. In this paper, we present an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor

Singing voice separation based on deep learning relies on the usage of time-frequency masking. In many cases the masking process is not a learnable function or is not encapsulated into the deep learning optimization. Consequently, most of…

This paper introduces a practical approach for leveraging a real-time deep learning model to alternate between speech enhancement and joint speech enhancement and separation depending on whether the input mixture contains one or two active…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Kashyap Patel , Anton Kovalyov , Issa Panahi

In this paper, we propose the multi-perspective information fusion (MPIF) Res2Net with random Specmix for fake speech detection (FSD). The main purpose of this system is to improve the model's ability to learn precise forgery information…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Shunbo Dong , Jun Xue , Cunhang Fan , Kang Zhu , Yujie Chen , Zhao Lv

The selection of maskers and playback gain levels in a soundscape augmentation system is crucial to its effectiveness in improving the overall acoustic comfort of a given environment. Traditionally, the selection of appropriate maskers and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Karn N. Watcharasupat , Kenneth Ooi , Bhan Lam , Trevor Wong , Zhen-Ting Ong , Woon-Seng Gan

Speech enhancement algorithms based on deep learning have been improved in terms of speech intelligibility and perceptual quality greatly. Many methods focus on enhancing the amplitude spectrum while reconstructing speech using the mixture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Qinglong Li , Fei Gao , Haixin Guan , Kaichi Ma

The advent of deep learning has led to the prevalence of deep neural network architectures for monaural music source separation, with end-to-end approaches that operate directly on the waveform level increasingly receiving research…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Christos Garoufis , Athanasia Zlatintsi , Petros Maragos

Real-time, deep learning-based vocal denoising has seen significant progress over the past few years, demonstrating the capability of artificial intelligence in preserving the naturalness of the voice while increasing the signal-to-noise…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Daniel Williams

The challenges of polyphonic sound event detection (PSED) stem from the detection of multiple overlapping events in a time series. Recent efforts exploit Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on Time-Frequency Representations (TFRs) of audio clips as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Wangkai Jin , Junyu Liu , Jianfeng Ren , Xiangjun Peng

Target speaker extraction, which aims at extracting a target speaker's voice from a mixture of voices using audio, visual or locational clues, has received much interest. Recently an audio-visual target speaker extraction has been proposed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Shoko Araki

This paper aims to improve the widely used deep speaker embedding x-vector model. We propose the following improvements: (1) a hybrid neural network structure using both time delay neural network (TDNN) and long short-term memory neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Yun Tang , Guohong Ding , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

In recent years, deep learning-based approaches have significantly improved the performance of single-channel speech enhancement. However, due to the limitation of training data and computational complexity, real-time enhancement of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zehua Zhang , Lu Zhang , Xuyi Zhuang , Yukun Qian , Heng Li , Mingjiang Wang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models have shown exceptional capabilities across various speech-processing tasks. Continuous SSL representations are effective but suffer from high computational and storage demands. On the other hand,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shih-heng Wang , Jiatong Shi , Chien-yu Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Hung-yi Lee

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

Fine-tuning pre-trained models provides significant advantages in downstream performance. The ubiquitous nature of pre-trained models such as BERT and its derivatives in natural language processing has also led to a proliferation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Thennal D K , Ganesh Nathan , Suchithra M S

In multi-channel speech enhancement and robust automatic speech recognition (ASR), beamforming can typically improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the target speaker and produce reliable enhancement with little distortion to target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Ruizhe Pang