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This paper addresses the prevalent issue of incorrect speech output in audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) systems, which is often caused by poor video quality and mismatched training and test data. We introduce a post-processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Wenze Ren , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Rong Chao , YouJin Li , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

Background noise reduces speech intelligibility and quality, making speaker verification (SV) in noisy environments a challenging task. To improve the noise robustness of SV systems, additive noise data augmentation method has been commonly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Wonbin Kim , Hyun-seo Shin , Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Chan-yeong Lim , Ha-Jin Yu

Emotional Voice Conversion, or emotional VC, is a technique of converting speech from one emotion state into another one, keeping the basic linguistic information and speaker identity. Previous approaches for emotional VC need parallel data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Helen Meng

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to improve the clarity, intelligibility, and quality of speech signals for various speech enabled applications. However, air-conducted (AC) speech is highly susceptible to ambient noise, particularly in low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Fuyuan Feng , Longting Xu , Rohan Kumar Das

Voice conversion (VC) stands as a crucial research area in speech synthesis, enabling the transformation of a speaker's vocal characteristics to resemble another while preserving the linguistic content. This technology has broad…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sandipan Dhar , Nanda Dulal Jana , Swagatam Das

The Transformer architecture has demonstrated a superior ability compared to recurrent neural networks in many different natural language processing applications. Therefore, our study applies a modified Transformer in a speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Szu-Wei Fu , Chien-Feng Liao , Tsun-An Hsieh , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Syu-Siang Wang , Cheng Yu , Heng-Cheng Kuo , Ryandhimas E. Zezario , You-Jin Li , Shang-Yi Chuang , Yen-Ju Lu , Yu Tsao

Audio-visual speech enhancement aims to extract clean speech from a noisy environment by leveraging not only the audio itself but also the target speaker's lip movements. This approach has been shown to yield improvements over audio-only…

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are of vital importance nowadays in commonplace tasks such as speech-to-text processing and language translation. This created the need for an ASR system that can operate in realistic crowded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Sherif Abdulatif , Karim Armanious , Karim Guirguis , Jayasankar T. Sajeev , Bin Yang

Speech enhancement in audio-only settings remains challenging, particularly in the presence of interfering speakers. This paper presents a simple yet effective real-time audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) system, RAVEN, which isolates…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 T. Aleksandra Ma , Sile Yin , Li-Chia Yang , Shuo Zhang

In real-world voice conversion applications, environmental noise in source speech and user demands for expressive output pose critical challenges. Traditional ASR-based methods ensure noise robustness but suppress prosody richness, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Yuepeng Jiang , Ziqian Ning , Shuai Wang , Chengjia Wang , Mengxiao Bi , Pengcheng Zhu , Zhonghua Fu , Lei Xie

Non-parallel voice conversion (VC) is a technique for learning the mapping from source to target speech without relying on parallel data. This is an important task, but it has been challenging due to the disadvantages of the training…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Nobukatsu Hojo

Logical Access (LA) attacks, also known as audio deepfake attacks, use Text-to-Speech (TTS) or Voice Conversion (VC) methods to generate spoofed speech data. This can represent a serious threat to Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV)…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Anacin , Angela , Shruti Kshirsagar , Anderson R. Avila

Building a single universal speech enhancement (SE) system that can handle arbitrary input is a demanded but underexplored research topic. Towards this ultimate goal, one direction is to build a single model that handles diverse audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Wangyou Zhang , Jee-weon Jung , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Jen-Cheng Hou , Syu-Siang Wang , Ying-Hui Lai , Yu Tsao , Hsiu-Wen Chang , Hsin-Min Wang

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Jen-Cheng Hou , Syu-Siang Wang , Ying-Hui Lai , Yu Tsao , Hsiu-Wen Chang , Hsin-Min Wang

While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. Here speech enhancement methods have traditionally allowed improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

In this paper we demonstrate that performance of a speaker verification system can be improved by concatenating electroencephalography (EEG) signal features with speech signal features or only using EEG signal features. We use…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Yan Han , Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed H Tewfik

We propose a new framework to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in resource-scarce environments using a generative adversarial network (GAN) operating on acoustic input features. The GAN is used to enhance the features of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Walter Heymans , Marelie H. Davel , Charl van Heerden

In this study, we introduce a new augmentation technique to enhance the resilience of sound event classification (SEC) systems against device variability through the use of CycleGAN. We also present a unique dataset to evaluate this method.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Myeonghoon Ryu , Hongseok Oh , Suji Lee , Han Park

Speech enhancement plays an essential role in various applications, and the integration of visual information has been demonstrated to bring substantial advantages. However, the majority of current research concentrates on the examination…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xinyuan Qian , Jiaran Gao , Yaodan Zhang , Qiquan Zhang , Hexin Liu , Leibny Paola Garcia , Haizhou Li