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Modern speech enhancement algorithms achieve remarkable noise suppression by means of large recurrent neural networks (RNNs). However, large RNNs limit practical deployment in hearing aid hardware (HW) form-factors, which are battery…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Igor Fedorov , Marko Stamenovic , Carl Jensen , Li-Chia Yang , Ari Mandell , Yiming Gan , Matthew Mattina , Paul N. Whatmough

In speech enhancement, complex neural network has shown promising performance due to their effectiveness in processing complex-valued spectrum. Most of the recent speech enhancement approaches mainly focus on wide-band signal with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Shubo Lv , Yihui Fu , Mengtao Xing , Jiayao Sun , Lei Xie , Jun Huang , Yannan Wang , Tao Yu

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

To address the monaural speech enhancement problem, numerous research studies have been conducted to enhance speech via operations either in time-domain on the inner-domain learned from the speech mixture or in time--frequency domain on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Xucheng Wan , Kai Liu , Ziqing Du , Huan Zhou

Speech restoration aims at restoring high quality speech in the presence of a diverse set of distortions. Although several deep learning paradigms have been studied for this task, the power of the recently emerging language models has not…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Xu Li , Qirui Wang , Xiaoyu Liu

Although deep learning based models for underwater image enhancement have achieved good performance, they face limitations in both lightweight and effectiveness, which prevents their deployment and application on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Fuheng Zhou , Dikai Wei , Ye Fan , Yulong Huang , Yonggang Zhang

We propose FSB-LSTM, a novel long short-term memory (LSTM) based architecture that integrates full- and sub-band (FSB) modeling, for single- and multi-channel speech enhancement in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. The model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Samuele Cornell , Shukjae Choi , Younglo Lee , Byeong-Yeol Kim , Shinji Watanabe

Diffusion models have recently set new benchmarks in Speech Enhancement (SE). However, most existing score-based models treat speech spectrograms merely as generic 2D images, applying uniform processing that ignores the intrinsic structural…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ke Xue , Rongfei Fan , Kai Li , Shanping Yu , Puning Zhao , Jianping An

Despite noise suppression being a mature area in signal processing, it remains highly dependent on fine tuning of estimator algorithms and parameters. In this paper, we demonstrate a hybrid DSP/deep learning approach to noise suppression. A…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Jean-Marc Valin

Recent studies have shown that post-deployment adaptation can improve the robustness of speech enhancement models in unseen noise conditions. However, existing methods often incur prohibitive computational and memory costs, limiting their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Longbiao Cheng , Shih-Chii Liu

With recent research advancements, deep learning models are becoming attractive and powerful choices for speech enhancement in real-time applications. While state-of-the-art models can achieve outstanding results in terms of speech quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Sebastian Braun , Hannes Gamper , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Ivan Tashev

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

Speech enhancement models should meet very low latency requirements typically smaller than 5 ms for hearing assistive devices. While various low-latency techniques have been proposed, comparing these methods in a controlled setup using DNNs…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Haibin Wu , Sebastian Braun

Low-complexity speech enhancement on mobile phones is crucial in the era of 5G. Thus, focusing on handheld mobile phone communication scenario, based on power level difference (PLD) algorithm and lightweight U-Net, we propose PLD-guided…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Nan Zhou , Youhai Jiang , Jialin Tan , Chongmin Qi

The rapid increase in networked systems and data transmission requires advanced data compression solutions to optimize bandwidth utilization and enhance network performance. This study introduces a novel byte-level predictive model using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xuanhao Luo , Zhiyuan Peng , Zhouyu Li , Ruozhou Yu , Yuchen Liu

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

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown significant improvements in recent years for speech enhancement. However, the model complexity and inference time cost of RNNs are much higher than deep feed-forward neural networks (DNNs).…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Cunhang Fan , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen , Leichao Song

In this paper we propose a lightweight model for frequency bandwidth extension of speech signals, increasing the sampling frequency from 8kHz to 16kHz while restoring the high frequency content to a level almost indistinguishable from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Yunpeng Li , Marco Tagliasacchi , Oleg Rybakov , Victor Ungureanu , Dominik Roblek

Over the past decade, the dominance of deep learning has prevailed across various domains of artificial intelligence, including natural language processing, computer vision, and biomedical signal processing. While there have been remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Hou-I Liu , Marco Galindo , Hongxia Xie , Lai-Kuan Wong , Hong-Han Shuai , Yung-Hui Li , Wen-Huang Cheng

Speech modeling methods learn one embedding for a fixed segment of speech, typically in between 10-25 ms. The information present in speech can be divided into two categories: "what is being said" (content) and "how it is expressed" (other)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hemant Yadav , Sunayana Sitaram , Rajiv Ratn Shah