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This paper introduces an innovative method for reducing the computational complexity of deep neural networks in real-time speech enhancement on resource-constrained devices. The proposed approach utilizes a two-stage processing framework,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Oliver Thiergart , Edwin Mabande

We propose a novel deep neural network architecture for speech recognition that explicitly employs knowledge of the background environmental noise within a deep neural network acoustic model. A deep neural network is used to predict the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Suyoun Kim , Bhiksha Raj , Ian Lane

This paper presents a review of multi-objective deep learning methods that have been introduced in the literature for speech denoising. After stating an overview of conventional, single objective deep learning, and hybrid or combined…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-30 Arian Azarang , Nasser Kehtarnavaz

Speaker Identification refers to the process of identifying a person using one's voice from a collection of known speakers. Environmental noise, reverberation and distortion make the task of automatic speaker identification challenging as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Sabbir Ahmed , Nursadul Mamun , Md Azad Hossain

Deep learning-based speech enhancement has seen huge improvements and recently also expanded to full band audio (48 kHz). However, many approaches have a rather high computational complexity and require big temporal buffers for real time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Hendrik Schröter , Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Tobias Rosenkranz , Andreas Maier

Neural networks have been successfully used for non-intrusive speech intelligibility prediction. Recently, the use of feature representations sourced from intermediate layers of pre-trained self-supervised and weakly-supervised models has…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their performance can be severely degraded by noisy or corrupted training data. Conventional noise mitigation methods often rely on explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Deliang Jin , Gang Chen , Shuo Feng , Yufeng Ling , Haoran Zhu

A new method has been developed to adjust volume automatically on all audio devices equipped with at least one microphone, including mobile phones, personal media players, headsets, and car radios, that might be used in noisy environments,…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Franklin Felber

Understanding the spectrum of noise acting on a qubit can yield valuable information about its environment, and crucially underpins the optimization of dynamical decoupling protocols that can mitigate such noise. However, extracting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 David F. Wise , John J. L. Morton , Siddharth Dhomkar

With the recent booming of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep learning techniques, digital healthcare is one of the prevalent areas that could gain benefits from AI-enabled functionality. This research presents a novel…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Fraser Young , L Zhang , Richard Jiang , Han Liu , Conor Wall

This paper proposes neural networks for compensating sensorineural hearing loss. The aim of the hearing loss compensation task is to transform a speech signal to increase speech intelligibility after further processing by a person with a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Szymon Drgas , Lars Bramsløw , Archontis Politis , Gaurav Naithani , Tuomas Virtanen

We propose a nonlinear acoustic echo cancellation system, which aims to model the echo path from the far-end signal to the near-end microphone in two parts. Inspired by the physical behavior of modern hands-free devices, we first introduce…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Amir Ivry , Israel Cohen , Baruch Berdugo

Speaker recognition is a biometric modality that uses underlying speech information to determine the identity of the speaker. Speaker Identification (SID) under noisy conditions is one of the challenging topics in the field of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Nursadul Mamun , Ria Ghosh , John H. L. Hansen

Enhancing noisy speech is an important task to restore its quality and to improve its intelligibility. In traditional non-machine-learning (ML) based approaches the parameters required for noise reduction are estimated blindly from the…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Robert Rehr , Timo Gerkmann

From the eardrum to the auditory cortex, where acoustic stimuli are decoded, there are several stages of auditory processing and transmission where information may potentially get lost. In this paper, we aim at quantifying the information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Mohsen Zareian Jahromi , Adel Zahedi , Jesper Jensen , Jan Østergaard

Image restoration has been an extensively researched topic in numerous fields. With the advent of deep learning, a lot of the current algorithms were replaced by algorithms that are more flexible and robust. Deep networks have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Rohit Jena

Improving the user's hearing ability to understand speech in noisy environments is critical to the development of hearing aid (HA) devices. For this, it is important to derive a metric that can fairly predict speech intelligibility for HA…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Ryandhimas E. Zezario , Fei Chen , Chiou-Shann Fuh , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

This technical report describes our system that is submitted to the Deep Noise Suppression Challenge and presents the results for the non-real-time track. To refine the estimation results stage by stage, we utilize recursive learning, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Renhua Peng , Linjuan Cheng , Xiaodong Li

Machine learning, and more specifically deep learning, have shown remarkable performance in sensing, communications, and inference. In this paper, we consider the application of the deep unfolding technique in the problem of signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-23 Shahin Khobahi , Naveed Naimipour , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Yonina C. Eldar

From hearing aids to augmented and virtual reality devices, binaural speech enhancement algorithms have been established as state-of-the-art techniques to improve speech intelligibility and listening comfort. In this paper, we present an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor