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In this paper, we propose a deep learning (DL)-based parameter enhancement method for a mixed excitation linear prediction (MELP) speech codec in noisy communication environment. Unlike conventional speech enhancement modules that are…
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Most current very low bit rate (VLBR) speech coding systems use hidden Markov model (HMM) based speech recognition/synthesis techniques. This allows transmission of information (such as phonemes) segment by segment that decreases the bit…
Complex-valued processing brought deep learning-based speech enhancement and signal extraction to a new level. Typically, the noise reduction process is based on a time-frequency (TF) mask which is applied to a noisy spectrogram. Complex…
In this paper, we extend previous self-supervised approaches for language identification by experimenting with Conformer based architecture in a multilingual pre-training paradigm. We find that pre-trained speech models optimally encode…
The recent emergence of machine-learning based generative models for speech suggests a significant reduction in bit rate for speech codecs is possible. However, the performance of generative models deteriorates significantly with the…
Neural networks have proven to be a formidable tool to tackle the problem of speech coding at very low bit rates. However, the design of a neural coder that can be operated robustly under real-world conditions remains a major challenge.…
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