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Diffusion models have shown promising results in speech enhancement, using a task-adapted diffusion process for the conditional generation of clean speech given a noisy mixture. However, at test time, the neural network used for score…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Bunlong Lay , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

This paper introduces a new method for multi-channel time domain speech separation in reverberant environments. A fully-convolutional neural network structure has been used to directly separate speech from multiple microphone recordings,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

In unsupervised or weakly-supervised approaches for speech dereverberation, the target clean (dry) signals are considered to be unknown during training. In that context, evaluating to what extent information can be retrieved from the sole…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Marius Rodrigues , Louis Bahrman , Roland Badeau , Gaël Richard

Given the recent advances in music source separation and automatic mixing, removing audio effects in music tracks is a meaningful step toward developing an automated remixing system. This paper focuses on removing distortion audio effects…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Johannes Imort , Giorgio Fabbro , Marco A. Martínez Ramírez , Stefan Uhlich , Yuichiro Koyama , Yuki Mitsufuji

Speech enhancement is a critical component of many user-oriented audio applications, yet current systems still suffer from distorted and unnatural outputs. While generative models have shown strong potential in speech synthesis, they are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Yen-Ju Lu , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Alexander Richard , Cheng Yu , Yu Tsao

Pitch shifting has been an essential feature in singing voice production. However, conventional signal processing approaches exhibit well known trade offs such as formant shifts and robotic coloration that becomes more severe at larger…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yunyi Liu , Taketo Akama

Singing voice separation based on deep learning relies on the usage of time-frequency masking. In many cases the masking process is not a learnable function or is not encapsulated into the deep learning optimization. Consequently, most of…

Vocal dereverberation remains a challenging task in audio processing, particularly for real-time applications where both accuracy and efficiency are crucial. Traditional deep learning approaches often struggle to suppress reverberation…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Daniel G. Williams

We present a self-supervised speech restoration method without paired speech corpora. Because the previous general speech restoration method uses artificial paired data created by applying various distortions to high-quality speech corpora,…

We propose an independence-based joint dereverberation and separation method with a neural source model. We introduce a neural network in the framework of time-decorrelation iterative source steering, which is an extension of independent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Kohei Saijo , Robin Scheibler

Reverberation as supervision (RAS) is a framework that allows for training monaural speech separation models from multi-channel mixtures in an unsupervised manner. In RAS, models are trained so that sources predicted from a mixture at an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-08 Kohei Saijo , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Zexu Pan , Jonathan Le Roux

Recent advancements in deep generative models present new opportunities for music production but also pose challenges, such as high computational demands and limited audio quality. Moreover, current systems frequently rely solely on text…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Javier Nistal , Marco Pasini , Cyran Aouameur , Maarten Grachten , Stefan Lattner

Reverberations are unavoidable in enclosures, resulting in reduced intelligibility for hearing impaired and non native listeners and even for the normal hearing listeners in noisy circumstances. It also degrades the performance of machine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Sania Gul , Muhammad Salman Khan , Syed Waqar Shah

A common challenge in the natural sciences is to disentangle distinct, unknown sources from observations. Examples of this source separation task include deblending galaxies in a crowded field, distinguishing the activity of individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sebastian Wagner-Carena , Aizhan Akhmetzhanova , Sydney Erickson

In this paper, we propose a model to perform speech dereverberation by estimating its spectral magnitude from the reverberant counterpart. Our models are capable of extracting features that take into account both short and long-term…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Joao Felipe Santos , Tiago H. Falk

Reverberation encodes spatial information regarding the acoustic source environment, yet traditional Speech Restoration (SR) usually completely removes reverberation. We propose ReverbMiipher, an SR model extending parametric resynthesis…

The objective of this work is to extract target speaker's voice from a mixture of voices using visual cues. Existing works on audio-visual speech separation have demonstrated their performance with promising intelligibility, but maintaining…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Suyeon Lee , Chaeyoung Jung , Youngjoon Jang , Jaehun Kim , Joon Son Chung

The paper introduces Diff-Filter, a multichannel speech enhancement approach based on the diffusion probabilistic model, for improving speaker verification performance under noisy and reverberant conditions. It also presents a new two-step…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Sandipana Dowerah , Ajinkya Kulkarni , Romain Serizel , Denis Jouvet

When recorded in an enclosed room, a sound signal will most certainly get affected by reverberation. This not only undermines audio quality, but also poses a problem for many human-machine interaction technologies that use speech as their…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Francisco Ibarrola , Leandro Di Persia , Ruben Spies

Geophysical inverse problems are often ill-posed and admit multiple solutions. Conventional discriminative methods typically yield a single deterministic solution, which fails to model the posterior distribution, cannot generate diverse…