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We investigate the use of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in speech dereverberation for robust speech recognition. GANs have been recently studied for speech enhancement to remove additive noises, but there still lacks of a work to…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ke Wang , Junbo Zhang , Sining Sun , Yujun Wang , Fei Xiang , Lei Xie

Transformer has been successfully applied to speech separation recently with its strong long-dependency modeling capacity using a self-attention mechanism. However, Transformer tends to have heavy run-time costs due to the deep encoder…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Zhuo Chen , Jian Wu , Takuya Yoshioka , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Xiangzhan Yu

In this paper, we propose a single-channel speech dereverberation system (DeReGAT) based on convolutional, bidirectional long short-term memory and deep feed-forward neural network (CBLDNN) with generative adversarial training (GAT). In…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Chenxing Li , Tieqiang Wang , Shuang Xu , Bo Xu

Semantic communications could improve the transmission efficiency significantly by exploring the semantic information. In this paper, we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin

The U-Net architecture, built upon the fully convolutional network, has proven to be effective in biomedical image segmentation. However, U-Net applies skip connections to merge semantically different low- and high-level convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

In this paper, we introduce a spectral-domain inverse filtering approach for single-channel speech de-reverberation using deep convolutional neural network (CNN). The main goal is to better handle realistic reverberant conditions where the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Hanwook Chung , Vikrant Singh Tomar , Benoit Champagne

Speech enhancement aims to improve speech quality and intelligibility in noisy environments. Recent advancements have concentrated on deep neural networks, particularly employing the Two-Stage (TS) architecture to enhance feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Zizhen Lin , Yuanle Li , Junyu Wang , Ruili Li

Enhancing speech quality is an indispensable yet difficult task as it is often complicated by a range of degradation factors. In addition to additive noise, reverberation, clipping, and speech attenuation can all adversely affect speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Jaeuk Byun , Youna Ji , Soo Whan Chung , Soyeon Choe , Min Seok Choi

In this paper, we propose a fully supervised speaker diarization approach, named unbounded interleaved-state recurrent neural networks (UIS-RNN). Given extracted speaker-discriminative embeddings (a.k.a. d-vectors) from input utterances,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-20 Aonan Zhang , Quan Wang , Zhenyao Zhu , John Paisley , Chong Wang

Dereverberation of recorded speech signals is one of the most pertinent problems in speech processing. In the present work, the objective is to understand and implement dereverberation techniques that aim at enhancing the magnitude…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Dhruv Nigam

In real acoustic environment, speech enhancement is an arduous task to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech interfered by background noise and reverberation. Over the past years, deep learning has shown great potential on…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Kanghao Zhang , Shulin He , Hao Li , Xueliang Zhang

Noise suppression and echo cancellation are critical in speech enhancement and essential for smart devices and real-time communication. Deployed in voice processing front-ends and edge devices, these algorithms must ensure efficient…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Kaijun Tan , Benzhe Dai , Jiakui Li , Wenyu Mao

This paper studies the Speech Enhancement based on Deep Neural Networks. The proposed architecture gradually follows the signal transformation during enhancement by means of a visualization probe at each network block. Alongside the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-10 Jorge Llombart , Dayana Ribas , Antonio Miguel , Luis Vicente , Alfonso Ortega , Eduardo Lleida

In this paper, we propose to extend the deep, complex U-Network architecture for speech enhancement by incorporating a probabilistic (i.e., variational) latent space model. The proposed model is evaluated against several ablated versions of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Eike J. Nustede , Jörn Anemüller

Recently, pioneer work finds that speech pre-trained models can solve full-stack speech processing tasks, because the model utilizes bottom layers to learn speaker-related information and top layers to encode content-related information.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Chengyi Wang , Yu Wu , Sanyuan Chen , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Yao Qian , Zhenglu Yang

Language models are increasingly used not only as standalone predictors but also as components in larger inference systems, from test-time reasoning to multi-model collaboration. We study language model networks, where pre-trained language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Shiguang Wu , Yaqing Wang , Quanming Yao

Recent researches have achieved great progress on single image super-resolution(SISR) due to the development of deep learning in the field of computer vision. In these method, the high resolution input image is down-scaled to low resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Zhengyang Lu , Ying Chen

3D speech enhancement can effectively improve the auditory experience and plays a crucial role in augmented reality technology. However, traditional convolutional-based speech enhancement methods have limitations in extracting dynamic voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Han Yin , Jisheng Bai , Mou Wang , Siwei Huang , Yafei Jia , Jianfeng Chen

This paper proposes reverberation as supervision (RAS), a novel unsupervised loss function for single-channel reverberant speech separation. Prior methods for unsupervised separation required the synthesis of mixtures of mixtures or assumed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Rohith Aralikatti , Christoph Boeddeker , Gordon Wichern , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Jonathan Le Roux

Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) on Transformers have significantly improved speaker verification (SV) by providing domain-general speech representations. However, existing approaches have underutilized the multi-layered…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Jin Sob Kim , Hyun Joon Park , Wooseok Shin , Juan Yun , Sung Won Han