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Continuous speech separation (CSS) aims to separate overlapping voices from a continuous influx of conversational audio containing an unknown number of utterances spoken by an unknown number of speakers. A common application scenario is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Zhuohuang Zhang , Takuya Yoshioka , Naoyuki Kanda , Zhuo Chen , Xiaofei Wang , Dongmei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez

In recent years, a number of time-domain speech separation methods have been proposed. However, most of them are very sensitive to the environments and wide domain coverage tasks. In this paper, from the time-frequency domain perspective,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Jiangyu Han , Yanhua Long , Lukas Burget , Jan Cernocky

For multi-channel speech recognition, speech enhancement techniques such as denoising or dereverberation are conventionally applied as a front-end processor. Deep learning-based front-ends using such techniques require aligned clean and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Hyeongju Kim , Hyeonseung Lee , Woo Hyun Kang , Hyung Yong Kim , Nam Soo Kim

Deep neural networks (DNNs) represent the mainstream methodology for supervised speech enhancement, primarily due to their capability to model complex functions using hierarchical representations. However, a recent study revealed that DNNs…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ashutosh Pandey , DeLiang Wang

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in multichannel, multi-speaker scenarios remains challenging due to ambient noise, reverberation and overlapping speakers. In this paper, we propose a beamforming approach that processes specific angular…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Can Cui , Paul Magron , Mostafa Sadeghi , Emmanuel Vincent

Recent studies in deep learning-based speech separation have proven the superiority of time-domain approaches to conventional time-frequency-based methods. Unlike the time-frequency domain approaches, the time-domain separation systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-30 Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka

Speech enhancement methods based on deep learning have surpassed traditional methods. While many of these new approaches are operating on the wideband (16kHz) sample rate, a new fullband (48kHz) speech enhancement system is proposed in this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Xu Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Xiguang Zheng , Xinlei Ren , Chen Zhang , Liang Guo , Bing Yu

The crux of single-channel speech separation is how to encode the mixture of signals into such a latent embedding space that the signals from different speakers can be precisely separated. Existing methods for speech separation either…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Zengwei Yao , Wenjie Pei , Fanglin Chen , Guangming Lu , David Zhang

We propose a novel deep learning-based channel estimation technique for high-dimensional communication signals that does not require any training. Our method is broadly applicable to channel estimation for multicarrier signals with any…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-23 Eren Balevi , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Single-channel speech enhancement is a challenging ill-posed problem focused on estimating clean speech from degraded signals. Existing studies have demonstrated the competitive performance of combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Zizhen Lin , Junyu Wang , Ruili Li , Fei Shen , Xi Xuan

Speech dereverberation is an important stage in many speech technology applications. Recent work in this area has been dominated by deep neural network models. Temporal convolutional networks (TCNs) are deep learning models that have been…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-26 William Ravenscroft , Stefan Goetze , Thomas Hain

Recent speech enhancement methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer have been demonstrated to efficaciously capture time-frequency (T-F) information on spectrogram. However, the correlation of each channels of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jizhen Li , Xinmeng Xu , Weiping Tu , Yuhong Yang , Rong Zhu

Speech enhancement in the time domain is becoming increasingly popular in recent years, due to its capability to jointly enhance both the magnitude and the phase of speech. In this work, we propose a dense convolutional network (DCN) with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Ashutosh Pandey , DeLiang Wang

We propose an end-to-end model based on convolutional and recurrent neural networks for speech enhancement. Our model is purely data-driven and does not make any assumptions about the type or the stationarity of the noise. In contrast to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Han Zhao , Shuayb Zarar , Ivan Tashev , Chin-Hui Lee

Multi-channel speech enhancement aims to recover clean speech from noisy multi-channel recordings. Most deep learning methods employ discriminative training, which can lead to non-linear distortions from regression-based objectives,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Zhongweiyang Xu , Ashutosh Pandey , Juan Azcarreta , Zhaoheng Ni , Sanjeel Parekh , Buye Xu

Studies have shown that in noisy acoustic environments, providing binaural signals to the user of an assistive listening device may improve speech intelligibility and spatial awareness. This paper presents a binaural speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor

Far-field speech recognition is a challenging task that conventionally uses signal processing beamforming to attack noise and interference problem. But the performance has been found usually limited due to heavy reliance on environmental…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Dongdi Zhao , Jianbo Ma , Lu Lu , Jinke Li , Xuan Ji , Lei Zhu , Fuming Fang , Ming Liu , Feijun Jiang

Far-field speech recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions remains a challenging problem despite recent deep learning breakthroughs. This problem is commonly addressed by acquiring a speech signal from multiple microphones and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-17 Zhong Meng , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey , Hakan Erdogan

For the difficulty and large computational complexity of modeling more frequency bands, full-band speech enhancement based on deep neural networks is still challenging. Previous studies usually adopt compressed full-band speech features in…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Guochen Yu , Yuansheng Guan , Weixin Meng , Chengshi Zheng , Hui Wang

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