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Channel models are essential for the design, evaluation, and optimization of wireless communication systems. The emerging space-air-ground-sea integrated network (SAGSIN), characterized by diverse service applications and extended-spectrum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Nanhao Zhou , Chao Zou , Yu Zhou , Yanqun Tang , Xiaoying Zhang , Haoran Yin , Xuefeng Yin , Yuxiang Zhang , Dan Fei , Fan Jiang

This paper introduces our repairing and denoising network (RaD-Net) for the ICASSP 2024 Speech Signal Improvement (SSI) Challenge. We extend our previous framework based on a two-stage network and propose an upgraded model. Specifically, we…

Speech enhancement, particularly denoising, is vital in improving the intelligibility and quality of speech signals for real-world applications, especially in noisy environments. While prior research has introduced various deep learning…

The Helsinki Speech Challenge 2024 (HSC2024) invites researchers to enhance and deconvolve speech audio recordings. We recorded a dataset that challenges participants to apply speech enhancement and inverse problems techniques to recorded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Martin Ludvigsen , Elli Karvonen , Markus Juvonen , Samuli Siltanen

The quality of the speech communication systems, which include noise suppression algorithms, are typically evaluated in laboratory experiments according to the ITU-T Rec. P.835, in which participants rate background noise, speech signal,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-19 Babak Naderi , Ross Cutler

The 2024 ICASSP Auditory EEG Signal Processing Grand Challenge concerns the decoding of electroencephalography (EEG) measurements taken from participants who listened to speech material. This work details our solution to the match-mismatch…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Mike Thornton , Jonas Auernheimer , Constantin Jehn , Danilo Mandic , Tobias Reichenbach

The URGENT 2024 Challenge aims to foster speech enhancement (SE) techniques with great universality, robustness, and generalizability, featuring a broader task definition, large-scale multi-domain data, and comprehensive evaluation metrics.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Wangyou Zhang , Kohei Saijo , Samuele Cornell , Robin Scheibler , Chenda Li , Zhaoheng Ni , Anurag Kumar , Marvin Sach , Wei Wang , Yihui Fu , Shinji Watanabe , Tim Fingscheidt , Yanmin Qian

Form about four decades human beings have been dreaming of an intelligent machine which can master the natural speech. In its simplest form, this machine should consist of two subsystems, namely automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Urmila Shrawankar , V. M. Thakare

This paper presents the "Speak & Improve Challenge 2025: Spoken Language Assessment and Feedback" -- a challenge associated with the ISCA SLaTE 2025 Workshop. The goal of the challenge is to advance research on spoken language assessment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Mengjie Qian , Kate Knill , Stefano Banno , Siyuan Tang , Penny Karanasou , Mark J. F. Gales , Diane Nicholls

Code-switching automatic speech recognition becomes one of the most challenging and the most valuable scenarios of automatic speech recognition, due to the code-switching phenomenon between multilingual language and the frequent occurrence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Shuhao Deng , Chengfei Li , Jinfeng Bai , Qingqing Zhang , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Runyan Yang , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

The L3DAS22 Challenge is aimed at encouraging the development of machine learning strategies for 3D speech enhancement and 3D sound localization and detection in office-like environments. This challenge improves and extends the tasks of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Eric Guizzo , Christian Marinoni , Marco Pennese , Xinlei Ren , Xiguang Zheng , Chen Zhang , Bruno Masiero , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

This study focuses on the First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge within the ICASSP 2025 Signal Processing Grand Challenge, which aims to develop speaker verification systems capable of determining whether two anonymized speech signals are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Yanzhe Zhang , Zhonghao Bi , Feiyang Xiao , Xuefeng Yang , Qiaoxi Zhu , Jian Guan

Speech enhancement is a task to improve the intelligibility and perceptual quality of degraded speech signal. Recently, neural networks based methods have been applied to speech enhancement. However, many neural network based methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Qiuqiang Kong , Haohe Liu , Xingjian Du , Li Chen , Rui Xia , Yuxuan Wang

This paper introduces a novel (HDAG - Harmonic Detection for Auditory Gain) method for speech intelligibility enhancement in noisy scenarios. In the proposed scheme, a series of selective Gammachirp filters are adopted to emphasize the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 A. Queiroz , R. Coelho

Previous DCASE challenges contributed to an increase in the performance of acoustic scene classification systems. State-of-the-art classifiers demand significant processing capabilities and memory which is challenging for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-10 Nagashree K. S. Rao , Nils Peters

In this paper we demonstrate that performance of a speaker verification system can be improved by concatenating electroencephalography (EEG) signal features with speech signal features or only using EEG signal features. We use…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Yan Han , Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed H Tewfik

The Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Quality (PEAQ) method as described in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) recommendation ITU-R BS.1387 has been widely used for computationally estimating the quality of perceptually coded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Pablo M. Delgado , Jürgen Herre

This paper presents the details of our system designed for the Task 1 of Multimodal Information Based Speech Processing (MISP) Challenge 2021. The purpose of Task 1 is to leverage both audio and video information to improve the…

The 2021 Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE21) was the latest cycle of the ongoing evaluation series conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) since 1996. It was the second large-scale multimodal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-22 Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Craig Greenberg , Elliot Singer , Lisa Mason , Douglas Reynolds

In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain