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Speech enhancement (SE) improves communication in noisy environments, affecting areas such as automatic speech recognition, hearing aids, and telecommunications. With these domains typically being power-constrained and event-based while…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Tao Sun , Sander Bohté

This paper investigates several aspects of training a RNN (recurrent neural network) that impact the objective and subjective quality of enhanced speech for real-time single-channel speech enhancement. Specifically, we focus on a RNN that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Yangyang Xia , Sebastian Braun , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Harishchandra Dubey , Ross Cutler , Ivan Tashev

Most of the deep learning based speech enhancement (SE) methods rely on estimating the magnitude spectrum of the clean speech signal from the observed noisy speech signal, either by magnitude spectral masking or regression. These methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Raktim Gautam Goswami , Sivaganesh Andhavarapu , K Sri Rama Murty

Machine learning applied to computer vision and signal processing is achieving results comparable to the human brain on specific tasks due to the great improvements brought by the deep neural networks (DNN). The majority of state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 José Augusto Stuchi , Levy Boccato , Romis Attux

Over the past few years, speech enhancement methods based on deep learning have greatly surpassed traditional methods based on spectral subtraction and spectral estimation. Many of these new techniques operate directly in the the short-time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Jean-Marc Valin , Umut Isik , Neerad Phansalkar , Ritwik Giri , Karim Helwani , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

Modern neural speech enhancement models usually include various forms of phase information in their training loss terms, either explicitly or implicitly. However, these loss terms are typically designed to reduce the distortion of phase…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Doyeon Kim , Hyewon Han , Hyeon-Kyeong Shin , Soo-Whan Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

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 speech enhancement method with trainable time-frequency~(T-F) transform based on invertible deep neural network~(DNN). The resent development of speech enhancement is brought by using DNN. The ordinary DNN-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Daiki Takeuchi , Kohei Yatabe , Yuma Koizumi , Yasuhiro Oikawa , Noboru Harada

Recent single-channel speech enhancement methods based on deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable results, but there are still generalization problems in real scenes. Like other data-driven methods, DNN-based speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Lu Zhang , Mingjiang Wang , Andong Li , Zehua Zhang , Xuyi Zhuang

Online Speech Enhancement was mainly reserved for predictive models. A key advantage of these models is that for an incoming signal frame from a stream of data, the model is called only once for enhancement. In contrast, generative Speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Bunlong Lay , Rostislav Makarov , Simon Welker , Maris Hillemann , Timo Gerkmann

Subjective evaluation results for two low-latency deep neural networks (DNN) are compared to a matured version of a traditional Wiener-filter based noise suppressor. The target use-case is real-world single-channel speech enhancement…

This work addresses the problem of block-online processing for multi-channel speech enhancement. Such processing is vital in scenarios with moving speakers and/or when very short utterances are processed, e.g., in voice assistant scenarios.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Jiri Malek , Zbynek Koldovsky , Marek Bohac

This paper focuses on leveraging deep representation learning (DRL) for speech enhancement (SE). In general, the performance of the deep neural network (DNN) is heavily dependent on the learning of data representation. However, the DRL's…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-28 Yang Xiang , Jesper Lisby Højvang , Morten Højfeldt Rasmussen , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

While machine learning techniques are traditionally resource intensive, we are currently witnessing an increased interest in hardware and energy efficient approaches. This need for resource-efficient machine learning is primarily driven by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Lukas Pfeifenberger , Matthias Zöhrer , Günther Schindler , Wolfgang Roth , Holger Fröning , Franz Pernkopf

Streaming speech enhancement is a crucial task for real-time applications such as online meetings, smart home appliances, and hearing aids. Deep neural network-based approaches achieve exceptional performance while demanding substantial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Sunghwan Ahn , Jinmo Han , Beom Jun Woo , Nam Soo Kim

This paper describes an online algorithm for enhancing monaural noisy speech. Firstly, a novel phase-corrected low-delay gammatone filterbank is derived for signal subband decomposition and resynthesis; the subband signals are then analyzed…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Zhangli Chen , Volker Hohmann

Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) on Transformers have significantly improved speaker verification (SV) by providing domain-general speech representations. However, existing approaches have underutilized the multi-layered…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Jin Sob Kim , Hyun Joon Park , Wooseok Shin , Juan Yun , Sung Won Han

We study large-scale kernel methods for acoustic modeling in speech recognition and compare their performance to deep neural networks (DNNs). We perform experiments on four speech recognition datasets, including the TIMIT and Broadcast News…

The SepFormer architecture shows very good results in speech separation. Like other learned-encoder models, it uses short frames, as they have been shown to obtain better performance in these cases. This results in a large number of frames…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Danilo de Oliveira , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

Speaker verification (SV) suffers from unsatisfactory performance in far-field scenarios due to environmental noise andthe adverse impact of room reverberation. This work presents a benchmark of multichannel speech enhancement for…