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This paper describes a real-time General Speech Reconstruction (Gesper) system submitted to the ICASSP 2023 Speech Signal Improvement (SSI) Challenge. This novel proposed system is a two-stage architecture, in which the speech restoration…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Wenzhe Liu , Yupeng Shi , Jun Chen , Wei Rao , Shulin He , Andong Li , Yannan Wang , Zhiyong Wu

This paper presents the speech restoration and enhancement system created by the 1024K team for the ICASSP 2024 Speech Signal Improvement (SSI) Challenge. Our system consists of a generative adversarial network (GAN) in complex-domain for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Guochen Yu , Runqiang Han , Chenglin Xu , Haoran Zhao , Nan Li , Chen Zhang , Xiguang Zheng , Chao Zhou , Qi Huang , Bing Yu

With the advances in speech communication systems such as online conferencing applications, we can seamlessly work with people regardless of where they are. However, during online meetings, speech quality can be significantly affected by…

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

The Inspirational and Convincing Audio Generation Challenge 2024 (ICAGC 2024) is part of the ISCSLP 2024 Competitions and Challenges track. While current text-to-speech (TTS) technology can generate high-quality audio, its ability to convey…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Ruibo Fu , Rui Liu , Chunyu Qiang , Yingming Gao , Yi Lu , Shuchen Shi , Tao Wang , Ya Li , Zhengqi Wen , Chen Zhang , Hui Bu , Yukun Liu , Xin Qi , Guanjun Li

While deep learning based speech enhancement systems have made rapid progress in improving the quality of speech signals, they can still produce outputs that contain artifacts and can sound unnatural. We propose a novel approach to speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Muqiao Yang , Joseph Konan , David Bick , Anurag Kumar , Shinji Watanabe , Bhiksha Raj

The INTERSPEECH 2020 Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge is intended to promote collaborative research in real-time single-channel Speech Enhancement aimed to maximize the subjective (perceptual) quality of the enhanced speech. A typical…

This paper describes our NPU-Elevoc personalized speech enhancement system (NAPSE) for the 5th Deep Noise Suppression Challenge at ICASSP 2023. Based on the superior two-stage model TEA-PSE 2.0, our system particularly explores better…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Xiaopeng Yan , Yindi Yang , Zhihao Guo , Liangliang Peng , Lei Xie

While the last decade has witnessed significant advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, performance of these systems for individuals with speech disabilities remains inadequate, partly due to limited public training…

Audio deepfake detection is an emerging topic in the artificial intelligence community. The second Audio Deepfake Detection Challenge (ADD 2023) aims to spur researchers around the world to build new innovative technologies that can further…

This paper described the PCG-AIID system for L3DAS22 challenge in Task 1: 3D speech enhancement in office reverberant environment. We proposed a two-stage framework to address multi-channel speech denoising and dereverberation. In the first…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Jingdong Li , Yuanyuan Zhu , Dawei Luo , Yun Liu , Guohui Cui , Zhaoxia Li

This paper considers speech enhancement of signals picked up in one noisy environment which must be presented to a listener in another noisy environment. Recently, it has been shown that an optimal solution to this problem requires the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Andreas Jonas Fuglsig , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Lars Søndergaard Bertelsen , Peter Mariager , Zheng-Hua Tan

In this paper, we present a causal speech signal improvement system that is designed to handle different types of distortions. The method is based on a generative diffusion model which has been shown to work well in scenarios with missing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Bunlong Lay , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. To improve robustness of speaker recognition system performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Audio Packet Loss Concealment (PLC) is the hiding of gaps in audio streams caused by data transmission failures in packet switched networks. This is a common problem, and of increasing importance as end-to-end VoIP telephony and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Lorenz Diener , Sten Sootla , Solomiya Branets , Ando Saabas , Robert Aichner , Ross Cutler

This paper introduces the Unbeatable Team's submission to the ICASSP 2023 Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge. We expand our previous work, TEA-PSE, to its upgraded version -- TEA-PSE 3.0. Specifically, TEA-PSE 3.0 incorporates a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Yukai Ju , Jun Chen , Shimin Zhang , Shulin He , Wei Rao , Weixin Zhu , Yannan Wang , Tao Yu , Shidong Shang

Existing deep learning-based speech denoising approaches require clean speech signals to be available for training. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improve speech denoising in real-world audio environments by not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Nasim Alamdari , Arian Azarang , Nasser Kehtarnavaz

The voice conversion task is to modify the speaker identity of continuous speech while preserving the linguistic content. Generally, the naturalness and similarity are two main metrics for evaluating the conversion quality, which has been…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ziyi Chen , Hua Hua , Yuxiang Zhang , Ming Li , Pengyuan Zhang

In this paper, we present a method for fine-tuning models trained on the Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) 2020 Challenge to improve their performance on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications. Our approach involves adapting the DNS…

Previous Multimodal Information based Speech Processing (MISP) challenges mainly focused on audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) with commendable success. However, the most advanced back-end recognition systems often hit performance…