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We present a novel deep learning network for Active Speech Cancellation (ASC), advancing beyond Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) methods by effectively canceling both noise and speech signals. The proposed Mamba-Masking architecture…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yehuda Mishaly , Lior Wolf , Eliya Nachmani

Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is an essential speech signal processing technology that removes echoes from microphone inputs to facilitate natural-sounding full-duplex communication. Currently, deep learning-based AEC methods primarily…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fei Zhao , Xueliang Zhang

The integration of artificial intelligence into hearing assistance marks a paradigm shift from traditional amplification-based systems to intelligent, context-aware audio processing. This systematic literature review evaluates advances in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Haris Khan , Shumaila Asif , Hassan Nasir , Kamran Aziz Bhatti , Shahzad Amin Sheikh

Attention-based end-to-end models such as Listen, Attend and Spell (LAS), simplify the whole pipeline of traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems and become popular in the field of speech recognition. In previous work,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Ruchao Fan , Pan Zhou , Wei Chen , Jia Jia , Gang Liu

The traditional adaptive algorithms will face the non-uniqueness problem when dealing with stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation (SAEC). In this paper, we first propose an efficient multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) scheme based on deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Chenggang Zhang , Jinjiang Liu , Xueliang Zhang

A major advantage of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) is that the focused receptive field size is increased by stacking multiple convolutional layers. Accordingly, the model can explore the long-range dependency of features from…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Xugang Lu , Peng Shen , Sheng Li , Yu Tsao , Hisashi Kawai

Sparse attention as a efficient method can significantly decrease the computation cost, but current sparse attention tend to rely on window self attention which block the global information flow. For this problem, we present Shifted Cross…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yuxiang Guo

Applying large pre-trained speech models like Whisper has shown promise in reducing training costs for various speech tasks. However, integrating these models into streaming systems remains a challenge. This paper presents a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yinfeng Xia , Huiyan Li , Chenyang Le , Manhong Wang , Yutao Sun , Xingyang Ma , Yanmin Qian

The field of speech recognition is in the midst of a paradigm shift: end-to-end neural networks are challenging the dominance of hidden Markov models as a core technology. Using an attention mechanism in a recurrent encoder-decoder…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Tsubasa Ochiai , Shinji Watanabe , Takaaki Hori , John R. Hershey

Attention-based end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art results for numerous tasks. However, the application of self-attention and attention-based encoder-decoder models remains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Niko Moritz , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

Mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD) is a popular research focus in computer-aided pronunciation training (CAPT) systems. End-to-end (e2e) approaches are becoming dominant in MDD. However an e2e MDD model usually requires entire…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Nianzu Zheng , Liqun Deng , Wenyong Huang , Yu Ting Yeung , Baohua Xu , Yuanyuan Guo , Yasheng Wang , Xiao Chen , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

Transformers are powerful neural architectures that allow integrating different modalities using attention mechanisms. In this paper, we leverage the neural transformer architectures for multi-channel speech recognition systems, where the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Feng-Ju Chang , Martin Radfar , Athanasios Mouchtaris , Brian King , Siegfried Kunzmann

In this paper, we address an important problem in high-quality audio communication systems. Acoustic echo cancellation with stereo signals is generally an under-determined problem because of the generally important correlation that exists…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Jean-Marc Valin

As the cornerstone of other important technologies, such as speech recognition and speech synthesis, speech enhancement is a critical area in audio signal processing. In this paper, a new deep learning structure for speech enhancement is…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Yuzi Yan , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Michael T. Johnson

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is designed to remove echoes, reverberation, and unwanted added sounds from the microphone signal while maintaining the quality of the near-end speaker's speech. This paper proposes adaptive speech quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Bozhong Liu , Xiaoxi Yu , Hantao Huang

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), noise suppression (NS) and dereverberation (DR) are an integral part of modern full-duplex communication systems. As the demand for teleconferencing systems increases, addressing these tasks is required for…

This paper addresses end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) for long audio recordings such as lecture and conversational speeches. Most end-to-end ASR models are designed to recognize independent utterances, but contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Takaaki Hori , Niko Moritz , Chiori Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

Echo and noise suppression is an integral part of a full-duplex communication system. Many recent acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) systems rely on a separate adaptive filtering module for linear echo suppression and a neural module for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Karn N. Watcharasupat , Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Woon-Seng Gan , Shengkui Zhao , Bin Ma

This paper presents an acoustic echo canceler based on a U-Net convolutional neural network for single-talk and double-talk scenarios. U-Net networks have previously been used in the audio processing area for source separation problems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 J. Silva-Rodríguez , M. F. Dolz , M. Ferrer , A. Castelló , V. Naranjo , G. Piñero

Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) plays a key role in voice interaction. Due to the explicit mathematical principle and intelligent nature to accommodate conditions, adaptive filters with different types of implementations are always used…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Lu Ma , Hua Huang , Pei Zhao , Tengrong Su