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Previously proposed FullSubNet has achieved outstanding performance in Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge and attracted much attention. However, it still encounters issues such as input-output mismatch and coarse processing for…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jun Chen , Zilin Wang , Deyi Tuo , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Helen Meng

It is highly desirable that speech enhancement algorithms can achieve good performance while keeping low latency for many applications, such as digital hearing aids, acoustically transparent hearing devices, and public address systems. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Chengshi Zheng , Wenzhe Liu , Andong Li , Yuxuan Ke , Xiaodong Li

Previous research in speech enhancement has mostly focused on modeling time or time-frequency domain information alone, with little consideration given to the potential benefits of simultaneously modeling both domains. Since these domains…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Feng Dang , Qi Hu , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

Recently, deep neural network (DNN) based time-frequency (T-F) mask estimation has shown remarkable effectiveness for speech enhancement. Typically, a single T-F mask is first estimated based on DNN and then used to mask the spectrogram of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Liangchen Zhou , Wenbin Jiang , Jingyan Xu , Fei Wen , Peilin Liu

FullSubNet is our recently proposed real-time single-channel speech enhancement network that achieves outstanding performance on the Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge dataset. A number of variants of FullSubNet have been proposed, but…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Xiang Hao , Xiaofei Li

Deep neural network based full-band speech enhancement systems face challenges of high demand of computational resources and imbalanced frequency distribution. In this paper, a light-weight full-band model is proposed with two dedicated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Qinwen Hu , Zhongshu Hou , Xiaohuai Le , Jing Lu

With the advances in deep learning, speech enhancement systems benefited from large neural network architectures and achieved state-of-the-art quality. However, speaker-agnostic methods are not always desirable, both in terms of quality and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Anastasia Kuznetsova , Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim

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

Monaural speech enhancement has achieved remarkable progress recently. However, its performance has been constrained by the limited spatial cues available at a single microphone. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a strategy to map…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Xinmeng Xu , Yuhong Yang , Weiping Tu

The expectation to deploy a universal neural network for speech enhancement, with the aim of improving noise robustness across diverse speech processing tasks, faces challenges due to the existing lack of awareness within static speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Yanan Chen , Zihao Cui , Yingying Gao , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng , Shilei Zhang

Deploying speech enhancement (SE) systems in wearable devices, such as smart glasses, is challenging due to the limited computational resources on the device. Although deep learning methods have achieved high-quality results, their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Heitor R. Guimarães , Ke Tan , Juan Azcarreta , Jesus Alvarez , Prabhav Agrawal , Ashutosh Pandey , Buye Xu

Despite significant progress made in the last decade, deep neural network (DNN) based speech enhancement (SE) still faces the challenge of notable degradation in the quality of recovered speech under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhongshu Hou , Tong Lei , Qinwen Hu , Zhanzhong Cao , Ming Tang , Jing Lu

Deep learning algorithm are increasingly used for speech enhancement (SE). In supervised methods, global and local information is required for accurate spectral mapping. A key restriction is often poor capture of key contextual information.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jianqiao Cui , Stefan Bleeck

PercepNet, a recent extension of the RNNoise, an efficient, high-quality and real-time full-band speech enhancement technique, has shown promising performance in various public deep noise suppression tasks. This paper proposes a new…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Xiaofeng Ge , Jiangyu Han , Yanhua Long , Haixin Guan

Speech enhancement (SE) is usually required as a front end to improve the speech quality in noisy environments, while the enhanced speech might not be optimal for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems due to speech distortion. On the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-27 Qiu-Shi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Zi-Qiang Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

Speech enhancement methods based on deep learning have surpassed traditional methods. While many of these new approaches are operating on the wideband (16kHz) sample rate, a new fullband (48kHz) speech enhancement system is proposed in this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Xu Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Xiguang Zheng , Xinlei Ren , Chen Zhang , Liang Guo , Bing Yu

Most of the current deep learning-based approaches for speech enhancement only operate in the spectrogram or waveform domain. Although a cross-domain transformer combining waveform- and spectrogram-domain inputs has been proposed, its…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jialu Li , Junhui Li , Pu Wang , Youshan Zhang

Diffusion speech enhancement on discrete audio codec features gain immense attention due to their improved speech component reconstruction capability. However, they usually suffer from high inference computational complexity due to multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Yihui Fu , Tim Fingscheidt

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to extract the clean waveform from noise-contaminated measurements to improve the speech quality and intelligibility. Although learning-based methods can perform much better than traditional counterparts, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Haoyin Yan , Jie Zhang , Cunhang Fan , Yeping Zhou , Peiqi Liu

The direct expansion of deep neural network (DNN) based wide-band speech enhancement (SE) to full-band processing faces the challenge of low frequency resolution in low frequency range, which would highly likely lead to deteriorated…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zhongshu Hou , Qinwen Hu , Kai Chen , Jing Lu