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We introduce a computationally efficient and tunable feedback delay network (FDN) architecture for real-time room impulse response (RIR) rendering that addresses the computational and latency challenges inherent in traditional convolution…
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems suffer considerably when source speech is corrupted with noise or room impulse responses (RIR). Typically, speech enhancement is applied in both mismatched and matched scenario training and…
In the past few years, it has been shown that deep learning systems are highly vulnerable under attacks with adversarial examples. Neural-network-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are no exception. Targeted and untargeted…
In a pipeline speech translation system, automatic speech recognition (ASR) system will transmit errors in recognition to the downstream machine translation (MT) system. A standard machine translation system is usually trained on parallel…
We address the problem of estimating room impulse responses (RIRs) in noisy, uncontrolled environments where non-stationary sounds such as speech or footsteps corrupt conventional deconvolution. We propose AnyRIR, a non-intrusive method…
In realistic environments, speech is usually interfered by various noise and reverberation, which dramatically degrades the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To alleviate this issue, the commonest way is to use a…
Modern neural-network-based speech processing systems are typically required to be robust against reverberation, and the training of such systems thus needs a large amount of reverberant data. During the training of the systems, on-the-fly…
We introduce a novel algorithm for online estimation of acoustic impulse responses (AIRs) which allows for fast convergence by exploiting prior knowledge about the fundamental structure of AIRs. The proposed method assumes that the…
Reverberation conveys critical acoustic cues about the environment, supporting spatial awareness and immersion. For auditory augmented reality (AAR) systems, generating perceptually plausible reverberation in real time remains a key…
Acoustic environment characterization opens doors for sound reproduction innovations, smart EQing, speech enhancement, hearing aids, and forensics. Reverberation time, clarity, and direct-to-reverberant ratio are acoustic parameters that…
Data-driven acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) methods, predominantly trained on synthetic or constrained real-world datasets, encounter performance declines in unseen echo scenarios, especially in real environments where echo paths are not…
Room equalisation aims to increase the quality of loudspeaker reproduction in reverberant environments, compensating for colouration caused by imperfect room reflections and frequency dependant loudspeaker directivity. A common technique in…
Modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems need to be robust under acoustic variability arising from environmental, speaker, channel, and recording conditions. Ensuring such robustness to variability is a challenge in modern day…
Reverberation, especially in large rooms, severely degrades speech recognition performance and speech intelligibility. Since direct measurement of room characteristics is usually not possible, blind estimation of reverberation-related…
We present a novel approach to improve the performance of learning-based speech dereverberation using accurate synthetic datasets. Our approach is designed to recover the reverb-free signal from a reverberant speech signal. We show that…
Several established parameters and metrics have been used to characterize the acoustics of a room. The most important are the Direct-To-Reverberant Ratio (DRR), the Reverberation Time (T60) and the reflection coefficient. The acoustic…
In general, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is significantly degraded due to the mismatch between training and test environments. Recently, a deep-learning-based image-to-image translation technique to…
Speech audio quality is subject to degradation caused by an acoustic environment and isotropic ambient and point noises. The environment can lead to decreased speech intelligibility and loss of focus and attention by the listener. Basic…
Room Impulse Responses (RIRs) characterize acoustic environments and are crucial in multiple audio signal processing tasks. High-quality RIR estimates drive applications such as virtual microphones, sound source localization, augmented…
Blind estimation of acoustic room parameters such as the reverberation time $T_\mathrm{60}$ and the direct-to-reverberation ratio ($\mathrm{DRR}$) is still a challenging task, especially in case of blind estimation from reverberant speech…