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Background noise, interfering speech and room reverberation frequently distort target speech in real listening environments. In this study, we address joint speech separation and dereverberation, which aims to separate target speech from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Ke Tan , Yong Xu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Meng Yu , Dong Yu

We propose a multi-task universal speech enhancement (MUSE) model that can perform five speech enhancement (SE) tasks: dereverberation, denoising, speech separation (SS), target speaker extraction (TSE), and speaker counting. This is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Kohei Saijo , Wangyou Zhang , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Tetsunori Kobayashi , Tetsuji Ogawa

Real-time single-channel speech separation aims to unmix an audio stream captured from a single microphone that contains multiple people talking at once, environmental noise, and reverberation into multiple de-reverberated and noise-free…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Julian Neri , Sebastian Braun

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

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

Transformer has shown advanced performance in speech separation, benefiting from its ability to capture global features. However, capturing local features and channel information of audio sequences in speech separation is equally important.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Wenjing Zhu

The performance of single channel source separation algorithms has improved greatly in recent times with the development and deployment of neural networks. However, many such networks continue to operate on the magnitude spectrogram of a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-08 Shrikant Venkataramani , Paris Smaragdis

Recent studies demonstrate the effectiveness of Self Supervised Learning (SSL) speech representations for Speech Inversion (SI). However, applying SI in real-world scenarios remains challenging due to the pervasive presence of background…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Saba Tabatabaee , Carol Espy-Wilson

In this study, we propose a modulation decoupling based single channel speech enhancement subspace framework, in which the spectrogram of noisy speech is decoupled as the product of a spectral envelop subspace and a spectral details…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Pengfei Sun , Jun Qin

The capability of the human to pay attention to both coarse and fine-grained regions has been applied to computer vision tasks. Motivated by that, we propose a collaborative learning framework in the complex domain for monaural noise…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Lu Zhang , Xiaodong Li

In recent years, the joint training of speech enhancement front-end and automatic speech recognition (ASR) back-end has been widely used to improve the robustness of ASR systems. Traditional joint training methods only use enhanced speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Haoyu Lu , Nan Li , Tongtong Song , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Xiaobao Wang , Shiliang Zhang

This work introduces sequential neural beamforming, which alternates between neural network based spectral separation and beamforming based spatial separation. Our neural networks for separation use an advanced convolutional architecture…

In this paper we consider the problem of speech enhancement in real-world like conditions where multiple noises can simultaneously corrupt speech. Most of the current literature on speech enhancement focus primarily on presence of single…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Anurag Kumar , Dinei Florencio

Current speech enhancement techniques operate on the spectral domain and/or exploit some higher-level feature. The majority of them tackle a limited number of noise conditions and rely on first-order statistics. To circumvent these issues,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Santiago Pascual , Antonio Bonafonte , Joan Serrà

Despite the remarkable progress recently made in distant speech recognition, state-of-the-art technology still suffers from a lack of robustness, especially when adverse acoustic conditions characterized by non-stationary noises and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Mirco Ravanelli , Philemon Brakel , Maurizio Omologo , Yoshua Bengio

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

This paper addresses the challenges of Hindi speech separation and enhancement using advanced neural network architectures, with a focus on edge devices. We propose a refined approach leveraging the DEMUCS model to overcome limitations of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Arnav Ramamoorthy

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 goal of this paper is speech separation and enhancement in multi-speaker and noisy environments using a combination of different modalities. Previous works have shown good performance when conditioning on temporal or static visual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Akam Rahimi , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

Single-channel speech separation is a crucial task for enhancing speech recognition systems in multi-speaker environments. This paper investigates the robustness of state-of-the-art Neural Network models in scenarios where the pitch…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Bunlong Lay , Sebastian Zaczek , Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann