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This study proposes a fully convolutional network (FCN) model for raw waveform-based speech enhancement. The proposed system performs speech enhancement in an end-to-end (i.e., waveform-in and waveform-out) manner, which dif-fers from most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-16 Szu-Wei Fu , Yu Tsao , Xugang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

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

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

We propose a neural network-based speech enhancement (SE) method called the phase-aware recurrent two stage network (rTSN). The rTSN is an extension of our previously proposed two stage network (TSN) framework. This TSN framework was…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Juntae Kim , Jaesung Bae

The front-end module in multi-channel automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems mainly use microphone array techniques to produce enhanced signals in noisy conditions with reverberation and echos. Recently, neural network (NN) based…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Yuxiang Kong , Jian Wu , Quandong Wang , Peng Gao , Weiji Zhuang , Yujun Wang , Lei Xie

Speech enhancement in multichannel settings has been realized by utilizing the spatial information embedded in multiple microphone signals. Moreover, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been recently advanced in this field; however, studies on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dongheon Lee , Seongrae Kim , Jung-Woo Choi

This paper introduces an explainable DNN-based beamformer with a postfilter (ExNet-BF+PF) for multichannel signal processing. Our approach combines the U-Net network with a beamformer structure to address this problem. The method involves a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Adi Cohen , Daniel Wong , Jung-Suk Lee , Sharon Gannot

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are very effective for multichannel speech enhancement with fixed array geometries. However, it is not trivial to use DNNs for ad-hoc arrays with unknown order and placement of microphones. We propose a novel…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Ashutosh Pandey , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar , Jacob Donley , Paul Calamia , DeLiang Wang

We propose a multi-channel speech enhancement approach with a novel two-stage feature fusion method and a pre-trained acoustic model in a multi-task learning paradigm. In the first fusion stage, the time-domain and frequency-domain features…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Quandong Wang , Junnan Wu , Zhao Yan , Sichong Qian , Liyong Guo , Lichun Fan , Weiji Zhuang , Peng Gao , Yujun Wang

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, our proposed recurrent neural network (RNN) based all deep learning minimum variance distortionless response (ADL-MVDR) beamformer method yielded superior performance over the conventional MVDR by replacing the matrix inversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Xiyun Li , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Jiaming Xu , Bo Xu , Dong Yu

In recent years, waveform-mapping-based speech enhancement (SE) methods have garnered significant attention. These methods generally use a deep learning model to directly process and reconstruct speech waveforms. Because both the input and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Chang-Le Liu , Sze-Wei Fu , You-Jin Li , Jen-Wei Huang , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

Audio-visual speech enhancement system is regarded to be one of promising solutions for isolating and enhancing speech of desired speaker. Conventional methods focus on predicting clean speech spectrum via a naive convolution neural network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Xinmeng Xu , Jianjun Hao

We propose a deep beamforming framework for enhancing target speaker(s) in multi-speaker environments. A deep neural network (DNN) is trained to estimate beamforming weights directly from noisy multichannel inputs while satisfying linear…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Ilai Zaidel , Ori Engel , Bar Engel , Sharon Gannot

In speech enhancement, an end-to-end deep neural network converts a noisy speech signal to a clean speech directly in time domain without time-frequency transformation or mask estimation. However, aggregating contextual information from a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Kai Zhen , Mi Suk Lee , Minje Kim

Speech enhancement has benefited from the success of deep learning in terms of intelligibility and perceptual quality. Conventional time-frequency (TF) domain methods focus on predicting TF-masks or speech spectrum, via a naive convolution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Yanxin Hu , Yun Liu , Shubo Lv , Mengtao Xing , Shimin Zhang , Yihui Fu , Jian Wu , Bihong Zhang , Lei Xie

Most deep learning-based models for speech enhancement have mainly focused on estimating the magnitude of spectrogram while reusing the phase from noisy speech for reconstruction. This is due to the difficulty of estimating the phase of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Hyeong-Seok Choi , Jang-Hyun Kim , Jaesung Huh , Adrian Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Kyogu Lee

Far-field speech processing is an important and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose \textit{deep ad-hoc beamforming}, a deep-learning-based multichannel speech enhancement framework based on ad-hoc microphone arrays, to address…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Xiao-Lei Zhang

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