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Multi-channel speech enhancement aims to extract clean speech from a noisy mixture using signals captured from multiple microphones. Recently proposed methods tackle this problem by incorporating deep neural network models with spatial…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Panagiotis Tzirakis , Anurag Kumar , Jacob Donley

The end-to-end approach for single-channel speech separation has been studied recently and shown promising results. This paper extended the previous approach and proposed a new end-to-end model for multi-channel speech separation. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Rongzhi Gu , Jian Wu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dan Su , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

Multi-channel speech enhancement seeks to utilize spatial information to distinguish target speech from interfering signals. While deep learning approaches like the dual-path convolutional recurrent network (DPCRN) have made strides,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Jiahui Pan , Shulin He , Tianci Wu , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang

Most current speech enhancement models use spectrogram features that require an expensive transformation and result in phase information loss. Previous work has overcome these issues by using convolutional networks to learn long-range…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-17 Jalal Abdulbaqi , Yue Gu , Ivan Marsic

The end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are often required to operate in reverberant conditions, where the long-term sub-band envelopes of the speech are temporally smeared. In this paper, we develop a feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Rohit Kumar , Anurenjan Purushothaman , Anirudh Sreeram , Sriram Ganapathy

Recently, deep learning-based beamforming algorithms have shown promising performance in target speech extraction tasks. However, most systems do not fully utilize spatial information. In this paper, we propose a target speech extraction…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Aoqi Guo , Junnan Wu , Peng Gao , Wenbo Zhu , Qinwen Guo , Dazhi Gao , Yujun Wang

This work proposes a multichannel speech separation method with narrow-band Conformer (named NBC). The network is trained to learn to automatically exploit narrow-band speech separation information, such as spatial vector clustering of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Changsheng Quan , Xiaofei Li

In recent years, deep learning-based approaches have significantly improved the performance of single-channel speech enhancement. However, due to the limitation of training data and computational complexity, real-time enhancement of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zehua Zhang , Lu Zhang , Xuyi Zhuang , Yukun Qian , Heng Li , Mingjiang Wang

In this work, we propose a deep beamforming framework for speech enhancement in dynamic acoustic environments. The framework learns time-varying beamformer weights from noisy multichannel signals via a deep neural network, guided by a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Ilai Zaidel , Sharon Gannot

Speech enhancement performance degrades significantly in noisy environments, limiting the deployment of speech-controlled technologies in industrial settings, such as manufacturing plants. Existing speech enhancement solutions primarly rely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Zachary Turcotte , François Grondin

This paper reviews pioneering works in microphone array processing and multichannel speech enhancement, highlighting historical achievements, technological evolution, commercialization aspects, and key challenges. It provides valuable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-14 Gongping Huang , Jesper R. Jensen , Jingdong Chen , Jacob Benesty , Mads G. Christensen , Akihiko Sugiyama , Gary Elko , Tomas Gaensler

This paper presents a complete hardware and software pipeline for real-time speech enhancement in noisy and reverberant conditions. The device consists of a microphone array and a camera mounted on eyeglasses, connected to an embedded…

Recent works have shown that Deep Recurrent Neural Networks using the LSTM architecture can achieve strong single-channel speech enhancement by estimating time-frequency masks. However, these models do not naturally generalize to…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Felix Grezes , Zhaoheng Ni , Viet Anh Trinh , Michael Mandel

A three-stage approach is proposed for speaker counting and speech separation in noisy and reverberant environments. In the spatial feature extraction, a spatial coherence matrix (SCM) is computed using whitened relative transfer functions…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Yicheng Hsu , Mingsian Bai

Methods are proposed for modifying the reverberation characteristics of sound fields in rooms by employing a loudspeaker with adjustable directivity, realized with a compact spherical loudspeaker array (SLA). These methods are based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Hai Morgenstern , Boaz Rafaely

We investigate a speech enhancement method based on the binaural coherence-to-diffuse power ratio (CDR), which preserves auditory spatial cues for maskers and a broadside target. Conventional CDR estimators typically rely on a mathematical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Reza Ghanavi , Craig Jin

This paper presents the details of the SRIB-LEAP submission to the ConferencingSpeech challenge 2021. The challenge involved the task of multi-channel speech enhancement to improve the quality of far field speech from microphone arrays in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-25 R G Prithvi Raj , Rohit Kumar , M K Jayesh , Anurenjan Purushothaman , Sriram Ganapathy , M A Basha Shaik

This paper proposes a deep neural network (DNN)-based multi-channel speech enhancement system in which a DNN is trained to maximize the quality of the enhanced time-domain signal. DNN-based multi-channel speech enhancement is often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Yoshiki Masuyama , Masahito Togami , Tatsuya Komatsu

Frame-online speech enhancement systems in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain usually have an algorithmic latency equal to the window size due to the use of overlap-add in the inverse STFT (iSTFT). This algorithmic latency…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are very effective for multichannel speech enhancement with fixed array geometries. However, it is not trivial to use DNNs for ad-hoc arrays with unknown order and placement of microphones. We propose a novel…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Ashutosh Pandey , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar , Jacob Donley , Paul Calamia , DeLiang Wang