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Recent diffusion models have achieved promising performances in audio-denoising tasks. The unique property of the reverse process could recover clean signals. However, the distribution of real-world noises does not comply with a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Pu Wang , Junhui Li , Jialu Li , Liangdong Guo , Youshan Zhang

Neural network based approaches to speech enhancement have shown to be particularly powerful, being able to leverage a data-driven approach to result in a significant performance gain versus other approaches. Such approaches are reliant on…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-15 George Close , William Ravenscroft , Thomas Hain , Stefan Goetze

Multi-channel speech enhancement aims to extract clean speech from a noisy mixture using signals captured from multiple microphones. Recently proposed methods tackle this problem by incorporating deep neural network models with spatial…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Panagiotis Tzirakis , Anurag Kumar , Jacob Donley

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been successful in en- hancing noisy speech signals. Enhancement is achieved by learning a nonlinear mapping function from the features of the corrupted speech signal to that of the reference clean speech…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Zhenzhou Wu , Sunil Sivadas , Yong Kiam Tan , Ma Bin , Rick Siow Mong Goh

Diffusion models (DM) can gradually learn to remove noise, which have been widely used in artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) in recent years. The property of DM for removing noise leads us to wonder whether DM can be applied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Dazhi He , Liang Qian , Yin Xu , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

The demand for realistic virtual immersive audio continues to grow, with Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) playing a key role. HRTFs capture how sound reaches our ears, reflecting unique anatomical features and enhancing spatial…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Xuyi Hu , Jian Li , Lorenzo Picinali , Aidan O. T. Hogg

The current dominant approach for neural speech enhancement is based on supervised learning by using simulated training data. The trained models, however, often exhibit limited generalizability to real-recorded data. To address this, this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Zhong-Qiu Wang

There are multiple applications to automatically count people and specify their gender at work, exhibitions, malls, sales, and industrial usage. Although current speech detection methods are supposed to operate well, in most situations, in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Praveen Damacharla , Hamid Rajabalipanah , Mohammad Hosein Fakheri

Acoustic echo and background noise can seriously degrade the intelligibility of speech. In practice, echo and noise suppression are usually treated as two separated tasks and can be removed with various digital signal processing (DSP) and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Xiaofeng Shu , Yehang Zhu , Yanjie Chen , Li Chen , Haohe Liu , Chuanzeng Huang , Yuxuan Wang

We explore the possibility of leveraging accelerometer data to perform speech enhancement in very noisy conditions. Although it is possible to only partially reconstruct user's speech from the accelerometer, the latter provides a strong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Marco Tagliasacchi , Yunpeng Li , Karolis Misiunas , Dominik Roblek

Speech enhancement, particularly denoising, is vital in improving the intelligibility and quality of speech signals for real-world applications, especially in noisy environments. While prior research has introduced various deep learning…

The intelligibility of speech severely degrades in the presence of environmental noise and reverberation. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning based system for modifying the speech signal to increase its intelligibility under the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Haoyu Li , Junichi Yamagishi

In this paper, we investigate a deep learning approach for speech denoising through an efficient ensemble of specialist neural networks. By splitting up the speech denoising task into non-overlapping subproblems and introducing a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim

Micro-Doppler analysis has become increasingly popular in recent years owning to the ability of the technique to enhance classification strategies. Applications include recognising everyday human activities, distinguishing drone from birds,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Chong Tang , Wenda Li , Shelly Vishwakarma , Karl Woodbridge , Simon Julier , Kevin Chetty

Noise reduction techniques based on deep learning have demonstrated impressive performance in enhancing the overall quality of recorded speech. While these approaches are highly performant, their application in audio engineering can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Christian J. Steinmetz , Thomas Walther , Joshua D. Reiss

In this paper, we present a novel multi-channel speech extraction system to simultaneously extract multiple clean individual sources from a mixture in noisy and reverberant environments. The proposed method is built on an improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

The intelligibility of natural speech is seriously degraded when exposed to adverse noisy environments. In this work, we propose a deep learning-based speech modification method to compensate for the intelligibility loss, with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Haoyu Li , Szu-Wei Fu , Yu Tsao , Junichi Yamagishi

While neural-based text to speech (TTS) models can synthesize natural and intelligible voice, they usually require high-quality speech data, which is costly to collect. In many scenarios, only noisy speech of a target speaker is available,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Chen Zhang , Yi Ren , Xu Tan , Jinglin Liu , Kejun Zhang , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Building on the deep learning based acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) in the single-loudspeaker (single-channel) and single-microphone setup, this paper investigates multi-channel AEC (MCAEC) and multi-microphone AEC (MMAEC). We train a deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Hao Zhang , DeLiang Wang

Diffusion models (DM) can gradually learn to remove noise, which have been widely used in artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) in recent years. The property of DM for eliminating noise leads us to wonder whether DM can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Dazhi He , Liang Qian , Yin Xu , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang