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We propose DiffSep, a new single channel source separation method based on score-matching of a stochastic differential equation (SDE). We craft a tailored continuous time diffusion-mixing process starting from the separated sources and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Robin Scheibler , Youna Ji , Soo-Whan Chung , Jaeuk Byun , Soyeon Choe , Min-Seok Choi

It is promising to design a single model that can suppress various distortions and improve speech quality, i.e., universal speech enhancement (USE). Compared to supervised learning-based predictive methods, diffusion-based generative models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Jie Zhang , Haoyin Yan , Xiaofei Li

Diffusion models have gained attention in speech enhancement tasks, providing an alternative to conventional discriminative methods. However, research on target speech extraction under multi-speaker noisy conditions remains relatively…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Leying Zhang , Yao Qian , Linfeng Yu , Heming Wang , Hemin Yang , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Yanmin Qian

Speech enhancement(SE) aims to recover clean speech from noisy recordings. Although generative approaches such as score matching and Schrodinger bridge have shown strong effectiveness, they are often computationally expensive. Flow matching…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Liusha Yang , Ziru Ge , Gui Zhang , Junan Zhang , Zhizheng Wu

Achieving a balance between lightweight design and high performance remains a challenging task for speech enhancement. In this paper, we introduce Multi-path Enhanced Taylor (MET) Transformer based U-net for Speech Enhancement (MUSE), a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zizhen Lin , Xiaoting Chen , Junyu Wang

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

Language Model (LM)-based speech enhancement (SE) has recently emerged as a promising direction, but existing approaches predominantly rely on token-level likelihood objectives that weakly reflect human perception. This mismatch limits…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Haoyang Li , Nana Hou , Yuchen Hu , Jixun Yao , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Xuyi Zhuang , Deheng Ye , Wei Yang , Eng Siong Chng

We introduce DiffuseST, a low-latency, direct speech-to-speech translation system capable of preserving the input speaker's voice zero-shot while translating from multiple source languages into English. We experiment with the synthesizer…

Diffusion models have recently achieved impressive results in reconstructing images from noisy inputs, and similar ideas have been applied to speech enhancement by treating time-frequency representations as images. With the ubiquity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Renana Opochinsky , Sharon Gannot

The Transformer architecture has demonstrated a superior ability compared to recurrent neural networks in many different natural language processing applications. Therefore, our study applies a modified Transformer in a speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Szu-Wei Fu , Chien-Feng Liao , Tsun-An Hsieh , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Syu-Siang Wang , Cheng Yu , Heng-Cheng Kuo , Ryandhimas E. Zezario , You-Jin Li , Shang-Yi Chuang , Yen-Ju Lu , Yu Tsao

The performance of deep neural network-based speech enhancement systems typically increases with the training dataset size. However, studies that investigated the effect of training dataset size on speech enhancement performance did not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Philippe Gonzalez , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Tommy Sonne Alstrøm , Tobias May

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

MOS (Mean Opinion Score) is a subjective method used for the evaluation of a system's quality. Telecommunications (for voice and video), and speech synthesis systems (for generated speech) are a few of the many applications of the method.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Bálint Gyires-Tóth , Csaba Zainkó

Since its inception, the field of deep speech enhancement has been dominated by predictive (discriminative) approaches, such as spectral mapping or masking. Recently, however, novel generative approaches have been applied to speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Danilo de Oliveira , Julius Richter , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

Diffusion-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have made remarkable progress in zero-shot speech synthesis, yet optimizing all components for perceptual metrics remains challenging. Prior work with DMOSpeech demonstrated direct metric…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Yinghao Aaron Li , Xilin Jiang , Fei Tao , Cheng Niu , Kaifeng Xu , Juntong Song , Nima Mesgarani

This paper introduces a lightweight deep learning model for real-time speech enhancement, designed to operate efficiently on resource-constrained devices. The proposed model leverages a compact architecture that facilitates rapid inference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Shuubham Ojha , Felix Gervits , Carol Espy-Wilson

To obtain improved speech enhancement models, researchers often focus on increasing performance according to specific instrumental metrics. However, when the same metric is used in a loss function to optimize models, it may be detrimental…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Danilo de Oliveira , Simon Welker , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

Recently, more and more personalized speech enhancement systems (PSE) with excellent performance have been proposed. However, two critical issues still limit the performance and generalization ability of the model: 1) Acoustic environment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Xiaofeng Ge , Jiangyu Han , Haixin Guan , Yanhua Long

We present MooseNet, a trainable speech metric that predicts the listeners' Mean Opinion Score (MOS). We propose a novel approach where the Probabilistic Linear Discriminative Analysis (PLDA) generative model is used on top of an embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ondřej Plátek , Ondřej Dušek

The objective speech quality assessment is usually conducted by comparing received speech signal with its clean reference, while human beings are capable of evaluating the speech quality without any reference, such as in the mean opinion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Meng Yu , Chunlei Zhang , Yong Xu , Shixiong Zhang , Dong Yu