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In this paper, we exploit the effective way to leverage contextual information to improve the speech dereverberation performance in real-world reverberant environments. We propose a temporal-contextual attention approach on the deep neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Helin Wang , Bo Wu , Lianwu Chen , Meng Yu , Jianwei Yu , Yong Xu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Chao Weng , Dan Su , Dong Yu

Recently, deep learning-based beamforming algorithms have shown promising performance in target speech extraction tasks. However, most systems do not fully utilize spatial information. In this paper, we propose a target speech extraction…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Aoqi Guo , Junnan Wu , Peng Gao , Wenbo Zhu , Qinwen Guo , Dazhi Gao , Yujun Wang

Deep neural network (DNN) based speech enhancement models have attracted extensive attention due to their promising performance. However, it is difficult to deploy a powerful DNN in real-time applications because of its high computational…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xiaohuai Le , Tong Lei , Kai Chen , Jing Lu

Most of the deep learning-based speech enhancement models are learned in a supervised manner, which implies that pairs of noisy and clean speech are required during training. Consequently, several noisy speeches recorded in daily life…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Szu-Wei Fu , Cheng Yu , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Mirco Ravanelli , Yu Tsao

Recently proposed speech recognition systems are designed to predict using representations generated by their top layers, employing greedy decoding which isolates each timestep from the rest of the sequence. Aiming for improved performance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Tomer Wullach , Shlomo E. Chazan

We present a method to remove unknown convolutive noise introduced to speech by reverberations of recording environments, utilizing some amount of training speech data from the reverberant environment, and any available non-reverberant…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Samik Sadhu , Hynek Hermansky

Eliminating the negative effect of non-stationary environmental noise is a long-standing research topic for automatic speech recognition that stills remains an important challenge. Data-driven supervised approaches, including ones based on…

State-of-the-art singing voice separation is based on deep learning making use of CNN structures with skip connections (like U-net model, Wave-U-Net model, or MSDENSELSTM). A key to the success of these models is the availability of a large…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Alice Cohen-Hadria , Axel Roebel , Geoffroy Peeters

In this research, we present an innovative, parameter-efficient model that utilizes the attention U-Net architecture for the automatic detection and eradication of non-speech vocal sounds, specifically breath sounds, in vocal recordings.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Nidula Elgiriyewithana , N. D. Kodikara

Removing background noise from speech audio has been the subject of considerable effort, especially in recent years due to the rise of virtual communication and amateur recordings. Yet background noise is not the only unpleasant disturbance…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Joan Serrà , Santiago Pascual , Jordi Pons , R. Oguz Araz , Davide Scaini

Achieving super-human performance in recognizing human speech has been a goal for several decades, as researchers have worked on increasingly challenging tasks. In the 1990's it was discovered, that conversational speech between two humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Thai-Son Nguyen , Sebastian Stueker , Alex Waibel

Speaker-independent speech separation has achieved remarkable performance in recent years with the development of deep neural network (DNN). Various network architectures, from traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) and recurrent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Xue Yang , Changchun Bao

Removing reverb from reverberant music is a necessary technique to clean up audio for downstream music manipulations. Reverberation of music contains two categories, natural reverb, and artificial reverb. Artificial reverb has a wider…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-09 Koichi Saito , Naoki Murata , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Takao Fukui , Yuki Mitsufuji

Speech enhancement algorithms based on deep learning have greatly surpassed their traditional counterparts and are now being considered for the task of removing acoustic echo from hands-free communication systems. This is a challenging…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Jean-Marc Valin , Srikanth Tenneti , Karim Helwani , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

Oversmoothing remains a persistent problem when applying deep learning to off-axis quantitative phase imaging (QPI). End-to-end U-Nets favour low-frequency content and under-represent fine, diagnostic detail. We trace this issue to spectral…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Yi Zhang

Skip connections in deep networks have improved both segmentation and classification performance by facilitating the training of deeper network architectures, and reducing the risks for vanishing gradients. They equip encoder-decoder-like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Aicha Bentaieb , Anmol Sharma , S. Kevin Zhou , Yefeng Zheng , Bogdan Georgescu , Puneet Sharma , Sasa Grbic , Zhoubing Xu , Dorin Comaniciu , Ghassan Hamarneh

This paper introduces StutterNet, a novel deep learning based stuttering detection capable of detecting and identifying various types of disfluencies. Most of the existing work in this domain uses automatic speech recognition (ASR) combined…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Shakeel A. Sheikh , Md Sahidullah , Fabrice Hirsch , Slim Ouni

Due to the absence of clean reference signals and spatial cues, monaural unsupervised speech dereverberation is a challenging ill-posed inverse problem. To realize it, we propose augmented reverberant-target training (ARTT), which consists…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Siqi Song , Fulin Wu , Zhong-Qiu Wang

Subband-based approaches process subbands in parallel through the model with shared parameters to learn the commonality of local spectrums for noise reduction. In this way, they have achieved remarkable results with fewer parameters.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jun Chen , Wei Rao , Zilin Wang , Jiuxin Lin , Zhiyong Wu , Yannan Wang , Shidong Shang , Helen Meng

In the scenario with reverberation, the experience of human-machine interaction will become worse. In order to solve this problem, many methods for the dereverberation have emerged. At present, how to update the parameters of the Kalman…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Fengqi Tan , Changchun Bao