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Speech enhancement using neural networks is recently receiving large attention in research and being integrated in commercial devices and applications. In this work, we investigate data augmentation techniques for supervised deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Sebastian Braun , Ivan Tashev

Deep complex convolution recurrent network (DCCRN), which extends CRN with complex structure, has achieved superior performance in MOS evaluation in Interspeech 2020 deep noise suppression challenge (DNS2020). This paper further extends…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Shubo Lv , Yanxin Hu , Shimin Zhang , Lei Xie

Supervised speech enhancement has gained significantly from recent advancements in neural networks, especially due to their ability to non-linearly fit the diverse representations of target speech, such as waveform or spectrum. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Rui Cao , Tianrui Wang , Meng Ge , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. Here speech enhancement methods have traditionally allowed improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Background noise is a well-known factor that deteriorates the accuracy and reliability of speaker verification (SV) systems by blurring speech intelligibility. Various studies have used separate pretrained enhancement models as the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Hye-jin Shim , Ha-Jin Yu

Speech enhancement is an essential task of improving speech quality in noise scenario. Several state-of-the-art approaches have introduced visual information for speech enhancement,since the visual aspect of speech is essentially unaffected…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Xinmeng Xu , Yang Wang , Dongxiang Xu , Yiyuan Peng , Cong Zhang , Jie Jia , Binbin Chen

Enhancing noisy speech is an important task to restore its quality and to improve its intelligibility. In traditional non-machine-learning (ML) based approaches the parameters required for noise reduction are estimated blindly from the…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Robert Rehr , Timo Gerkmann

Speech enhancement concerns the processes required to remove unwanted background sounds from the target speech to improve its quality and intelligibility. In this paper, a novel approach for single-channel speech enhancement is presented,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Sania Gul , Muhammad Salman Khan , Muhammad Fazeel

The ConferencingSpeech 2021 challenge is proposed to stimulate research on far-field multi-channel speech enhancement for video conferencing. The challenge consists of two separate tasks: 1) Task 1 is multi-channel speech enhancement with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Wei Rao , Yihui Fu , Yanxin Hu , Xin Xu , Yvkai Jv , Jiangyu Han , Zhongjie Jiang , Lei Xie , Yannan Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Zheng-Hua Tan , Hui Bu , Tao Yu , Shidong Shang

Deep learning-based speech enhancement has shown unprecedented performance in recent years. The most popular mono speech enhancement frameworks are end-to-end networks mapping the noisy mixture into an estimate of the clean speech. With…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Bahareh Tolooshams , Kazuhito Koishida

Recently, speech separation (SS) task has achieved remarkable progress driven by deep learning technique. However, it is still challenging to separate target speech from noisy mixture, as the neural model is vulnerable to assign background…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zizheng Zhang , Chen Chen , Hsin-Hung Chen , Xiang Liu , Yuchen Hu , Eng Siong Chng

The intelligibility of speech severely degrades in the presence of environmental noise and reverberation. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning based system for modifying the speech signal to increase its intelligibility under the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Haoyu Li , Junichi Yamagishi

In real acoustic environment, speech enhancement is an arduous task to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech interfered by background noise and reverberation. Over the past years, deep learning has shown great potential on…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Kanghao Zhang , Shulin He , Hao Li , Xueliang Zhang

Recently, deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement (SE) systems have been used with great success. During training, such systems require clean speech data - ideally, in large quantity with a variety of acoustic conditions, many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-27 Koichi Saito , Stefan Uhlich , Giorgio Fabbro , Yuki Mitsufuji

Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) calls are prone to various speech impairments due to environmental and network conditions resulting in bad user experience. A reliable audio impairment classifier helps to identify the cause for bad audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Chandan K A Reddy , Ross Cutler , Johannes Gehrke

Supervised learning based on a deep neural network recently has achieved substantial improvement on speech enhancement. Denoising networks learn mapping from noisy speech to clean one directly, or to a spectrum mask which is the ratio…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jaeyoung Kim , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has grown in interest within the speech processing community, since it produces representations that are useful for many downstream tasks. SSL uses global and contextual methods to produce robust…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Subrina Sultana , Donald S. Williamson

Noisy situations cause huge problems for suffers of hearing loss as hearing aids often make the signal more audible but do not always restore the intelligibility. In noisy settings, humans routinely exploit the audio-visual (AV) nature of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Ahsan Adeel , Amir Hussain

Deep noise suppression (DNS) models enjoy widespread use throughout a variety of high-stakes speech applications. However, we show that four recent DNS models can each be reduced to outputting unintelligible gibberish through the addition…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Will Schwarzer , Neel Chaudhari , Philip S. Thomas , Andrea Fanelli , Xiaoyu Liu

Speech enhancement deep learning systems usually require large amounts of training data to operate in broad conditions or real applications. This makes the adaptability of those systems into new, low resource environments an important…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Santiago Pascual , Maruchan Park , Joan Serrà , Antonio Bonafonte , Kang-Hun Ahn