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Data-driven speech enhancement employing deep neural networks (DNNs) can provide state-of-the-art performance even in the presence of non-stationary noise. During the training process, most of the speech enhancement neural networks are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Ziyi Xu , Maximilian Strake , Tim Fingscheidt

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

This paper reports on the design and outcomes of the ICASSP SP Clarity Challenge: Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids. The scenario was a listener attending to a target speaker in a noisy, domestic environment. There were multiple…

Target speaker information can be utilized in speech enhancement (SE) models to more effectively extract the desired speech. Previous works introduce the speaker embedding into speech enhancement models by means of concatenation or affine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Xiaohuai Le , Li Chen , Chao He , Yiqing Guo , Cheng Chen , Xianjun Xia , Jing Lu

This paper presents our system for the MISP-Meeting Challenge Track 2. The primary difficulty lies in the dataset, which contains strong background noise, reverberation, overlapping speech, and diverse meeting topics. To address these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Longjie Luo , Shenghui Lu , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

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

Background noise and room reverberation are regarded as two major factors to degrade the subjective speech quality. In this paper, we propose an integrated framework to address simultaneous denoising and dereverberation under complicated…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Andong Li , Wenzhe Liu , Xiaoxue Luo , Guochen Yu , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

Dysarthric speech recognition (DSR) enhances the accessibility of smart devices for dysarthric speakers with limited mobility. Previously, DSR research was constrained by the fact that existing datasets typically consisted of isolated…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiyao Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Shiwan Zhao , Yong Qin

Most deep noise suppression (DNS) models are trained with reference-based losses requiring access to clean speech. However, sometimes an additive microphone model is insufficient for real-world applications. Accordingly, ways to use real…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Ziyi Xu , Marvin Sach , Jan Pirklbauer , Tim Fingscheidt

We study speech enhancement using deep learning (DL) for virtual meetings on cellular devices, where transmitted speech has background noise and transmission loss that affects speech quality. Since the Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Hojeong Lee , Minseon Gwak , Kawon Lee , Minjeong Kim , Joseph Konan , Ojas Bhargave

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models can improve the audio quality of teleconferencing systems by adapting to the characteristics of a speaker's voice. However, most existing methods require a separate speaker embedding model to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Tanel Pärnamaa , Ando Saabas

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

Background noise is a major source of quality impairments in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) calls. Recent work shows the efficacy of deep learning for noise suppression, but the datasets…

Estimating time-frequency domain masks for speech enhancement using deep learning approaches has recently become a popular field of research. In this paper, we propose a mask-based speech enhancement framework by using concatenated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Ziyi Xu , Maximilian Strake , Tim Fingscheidt

Speech enhancement is critical for improving speech intelligibility and quality in various audio devices. In recent years, deep learning-based methods have significantly improved speech enhancement performance, but they often come with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Xiang Hao , Chenxiang Ma , Qu Yang , Jibin Wu , Kay Chen Tan

Speech-related applications deliver inferior performance in complex noise environments. Therefore, this study primarily addresses this problem by introducing speech-enhancement (SE) systems based on deep neural networks (DNNs) applied to a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Syu-Siang Wang , Yu-You Liang , Jeih-weih Hung , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang , Shih-Hau Fang

Deep learning is an emerging technology that is considered one of the most promising directions for reaching higher levels of artificial intelligence. Among the other achievements, building computers that understand speech represents a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Mirco Ravanelli

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), noise suppression (NS) and dereverberation (DR) are an integral part of modern full-duplex communication systems. As the demand for teleconferencing systems increases, addressing these tasks is required for…

ASVspoof 2021 is the forth edition in the series of bi-annual challenges which aim to promote the study of spoofing and the design of countermeasures to protect automatic speaker verification systems from manipulation. In addition to a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Junichi Yamagishi , Xin Wang , Massimiliano Todisco , Md Sahidullah , Jose Patino , Andreas Nautsch , Xuechen Liu , Kong Aik Lee , Tomi Kinnunen , Nicholas Evans , Héctor Delgado

Deep learning-based models have greatly advanced the performance of speech enhancement (SE) systems. However, two problems remain unsolved, which are closely related to model generalizability to noisy conditions: (1) mismatched noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Cheng Yu , Ryandhimas E. Zezario , Syu-Siang Wang , Jonathan Sherman , Yi-Yen Hsieh , Xugang Lu , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao