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Training of speech enhancement systems often does not incorporate knowledge of human perception and thus can lead to unnatural sounding results. Incorporating psychoacoustically motivated speech perception metrics as part of model training…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-16 George Close , Thomas Hain , Stefan Goetze

We investigate the use of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in speech dereverberation for robust speech recognition. GANs have been recently studied for speech enhancement to remove additive noises, but there still lacks of a work to…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ke Wang , Junbo Zhang , Sining Sun , Yujun Wang , Fei Xiang , Lei Xie

Target speaker extraction aims at extracting the target speaker from a mixture of multiple speakers exploiting auxiliary information about the target speaker. In this paper, we consider a complete time-domain target speaker extraction…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-30 Ragini Sinha , Marvin Tammen , Christian Rollwage , Simon Doclo

In recent years, neural vocoders have surpassed classical speech generation approaches in naturalness and perceptual quality of the synthesized speech. Computationally heavy models like WaveNet and WaveGlow achieve best results, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Ahmed Mustafa , Nicola Pia , Guillaume Fuchs

Speech enhancement involves the distinction of a target speech signal from an intrusive background. Although generative approaches using Variational Autoencoders or Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have increasingly been used in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Martin Strauss , Bernd Edler

Recent development of neural vocoders based on the generative adversarial neural network (GAN) has shown obvious advantages of generating raw waveform conditioned on mel-spectrogram with fast inference speed and lightweight networks.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kun Song , Yongmao Zhang , Yi Lei , Jian Cong , Hanzhao Li , Lei Xie , Gang He , Jinfeng Bai

Conformer, combining convolution and self-attention sequentially to capture both local and global information, has shown remarkable performance and is currently regarded as the state-of-the-art for automatic speech recognition (ASR).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Kwangyoun Kim , Felix Wu , Yifan Peng , Jing Pan , Prashant Sridhar , Kyu J. Han , Shinji Watanabe

The generative adversarial networks (GANs) have facilitated the development of speech enhancement recently. Nevertheless, the performance advantage is still limited when compared with state-of-the-art models. In this paper, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Renhua Peng , Cunhang Fan , Xiaodong Li

The advent of Large Models marks a new era in machine learning, significantly outperforming smaller models by leveraging vast datasets to capture and synthesize complex patterns. Despite these advancements, the exploration into scaling,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Shijia Liao , Shiyi Lan , Arun George Zachariah

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based vocoders are superior in both inference speed and synthesis quality when reconstructing an audible waveform from an acoustic representation. This study focuses on improving the discriminator for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Yicheng Gu , Xueyao Zhang , Liumeng Xue , Haizhou Li , Zhizheng Wu

In this paper we propose a data augmentation method for time series with irregular sampling, Time-Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (T-CGAN). Our approach is based on Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (CGAN), where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Giorgia Ramponi , Pavlos Protopapas , Marco Brambilla , Ryan Janssen

In this work, we propose a full-band real-time speech enhancement system with GAN-based stochastic regeneration. Predictive models focus on estimating the mean of the target distribution, whereas generative models aim to learn the full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Sanberk Serbest , Tijana Stojkovic , Milos Cernak , Andrew Harper

In a recent paper, we have presented a generative adversarial network (GAN)-based model for unconditional generation of the mel-spectrograms of singing voices. As the generator of the model is designed to take a variable-length sequence of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Jen-Yu Liu , Yu-Hua Chen , Yin-Cheng Yeh , Yi-Hsuan Yang

In speech enhancement, achieving state-of-the-art (SotA) performance while adhering to the computational constraints on edge devices remains a formidable challenge. Networks integrating stacked temporal and spectral modelling effectively…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Haixin Zhao , Nilesh Madhu

Attention mechanism has been widely utilized in speech enhancement (SE) because theoretically it can effectively model the long-term inherent connection of signal both in time domain and spectrum domain. However, the generally used global…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Zhongshu Hou , Qinwen Hu , Kai Chen , Jing Lu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown potential in learning emotional attributes and generating new data samples. However, their performance is usually hindered by the unavailability of larger speech emotion recognition (SER)…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Siddique Latif , Muhammad Asim , Rajib Rana , Sara Khalifa , Raja Jurdak , Björn W. Schuller

Although state-of-the-art parallel WaveNet has addressed the issue of real-time waveform generation, there remains problems. Firstly, due to the noisy input signal of the model, there is still a gap between the quality of generated and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Qiao Tian , Xucheng Wan , Shan Liu

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful tools for reconstructing Compressed Sensing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CS-MRI). However most recent works lack exploration of structure information of MRI images that is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zhongnian Li , Tao Zhang , Peng Wan , Daoqiang Zhang

Adversarial waveform generation has been a popular approach as the backend of singing voice conversion (SVC) to generate high-quality singing audio. However, the instability of GAN also leads to other problems, such as pitch jitters and U/V…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Haohan Guo , Zhiping Zhou , Fanbo Meng , Kai Liu

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